A SPECIAL Bangla radio service, first launched in the wake of the Bangladesh Liberation Movement in 1971 and discontinued in 2010, was re-launched by President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday. The Akashvani Maitree channel for Bengali listeners and its website would provide a platform for blending content both from India and Bangladesh. “Akashvani Maitree and its multimedia website is a unique Read More

After controversy over his statement over freedom fighter that mentioned ‘Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose were hanged’, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar issued a clarification saying it’s a confusion of punctuation in his quote. While paying homage to freedom fighters, Javadekar had said, “We salute our freedom fighters. So many bravehearts – Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel, Pandit Nehru, Bhagat Read More

Hitting out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for criticising Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and the Centre, the state BJP on Monday accused her of helping “anti-national elements”, speaking “half-truths” and destroying the country’s federal structure. “The Chief Minister has termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi a dictator. She also said that BJP government is out to destroy the federal character of the Read More

A POLICEMAN on Monday night opened fired inside the Police Lines of Bulandshaher district, killing at least one of his colleagues and injuring several others. He later shot himself on the head with an INSAS rifle. Constable Saurabh Tyagi (34), who was allegedly suffering from depression, was a 2005-batch constable from Muzzaffarnagar. He was posted in the counting (gadna) office Read More

Coolpad has announced that their recently launched device, the Coolpad Mega 2.5D crossed the half a million registration mark on Amazon India. The phone was launched on August 10, and will be available for Rs 6,999 in a flash sale on Amazon India starting August 24. Coolpad Mega 2.5D is a selfie centric device, that will come with smart beautification Read More

Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday joined the nation in lauding ace Indian shuttler P.V Sindhu who reached the semi-finals of the women’s singles event at the Rio Olympics. “#PVSindhu .. you played a super game .. CONGRATULATIONS !! More glory for you ..you made us all very proud ! Beat No 2 at #Rio2016,” he said in a tweet. Read More

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second day in a speech to party workers in Lucknow. The Congress vice-president criticised PM Modi for promising bullet trains, saying the “tickets will be not less than Rs 15,000”. “Only Modi ji and his suit-boot friends will travel in it,” he said. Accusing PM Modi of failing Read More

Writer Amitav Ghosh will be the guest at The Express Adda in New Delhi on Saturday. The 60-year-old, who has authored notable novels such as The Shadow Lines (1988), The Hungry Tide (2004) and, most recently, The Ibis Trilogy, recently published his new work, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. The book marks Ghosh’s return to non-fiction and Read More

Joining Juventus in the most expensive transfer in Italian football history, Gonzalo Higuain is already setting his sights on a Champions League title. At his presentation Thursday, Higuain declared that Juventus’ goal this season is a treble _ winning Serie A, the Italian Cup and the Champions League. The Argentina striker says, “Clearly it’s a dream but that’s what we’ve Read More

Joining Juventus in the most expensive transfer in Italian football history, Gonzalo Higuain is already setting his sights on a Champions League title. At his presentation Thursday, Higuain declared that Juventus’ goal this season is a treble _ winning Serie A, the Italian Cup and the Champions League. The Argentina striker says, “Clearly it’s a dream but that’s what we’ve Read More