When India was grappling with the Covid-19 crest in mid-2020, an ancient treasure - about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE - was quietly catapulted into the 'future world history', but the epochal event went virtually unnoticed in the country
The dream of the late Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj to help a deaf-mute girl -- who had strayed into Pakistan some 20 years ago -- reunite with her family, was finally fulfilled here last week
A Maharashtra government village school academician, Ranjitsingh Disale, from Solapur has bagged the Varkey Foundation-UNESCO's top Global Teacher Prize-2020' worth $1 million (Rs 7.40 crore), according to an official announcement made in London
Way back on July 25, 2013, then US Vice-President Joe Biden -- now the US President-elect -- had visited the hallowed portals of the famed Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), and the memories of that trip are still fresh among officials here
In recent days, people passing by some of the biggest fashion stores in Mumbai rub their eyes in disbelief at what they behold
Lacking faith in the Uttar Pradesh Police, a distraught 22-year-old Nepali woman escaped the clutches of her alleged kidnapper-cum-rapist in Lucknow, cabbed down 900-km to Nagpur and lodged a police complaint against him, a senior official said here on Monday
For the first time, three generations of Mahatma Gandhi's descendants have joined hands to make an emotional appeal to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, seeking help to save the trees at the Sevagram Ashram in Wardha - where Gandhi stayed his last 12 years - which were being chopped ostensibly to expand a state highway, one of the…
For the past four days or so, Maharashtra's world-famous Lonar Lake, that was supposed to have been formed by a meteorite hit, has mysteriously changed colour from its normal bluish-green to a baby-pink shade
Over the two months of lockdown, thousands of bus, trucks, tempos and other vehicles passing near Karanji on National Highway-7 make it a point to halt at a ramshackle tin shed with plastic sheets, beside the dry and dusty road
In a unique initiative, a Canadian and a Spanish student, both of Chinese origin, on Saturday cycled 100 km in Singapore to raise funds for migrants 4,000 km away in Mumbai's Govandi suburb, an associate said
