Impressed by Kazi’s mimicry and raw acting skills, Dutt took a gamble on the bus conductor, cast him, and renamed him after his favourite Scotch — Johnny Walker.
Between 2005 and 2011, 140 African women, most of them grandmothers, traveled to Tilonia from villages in Africa to be trained as solar engineers. None of the women could read or write, nor could speak Hindi. So, they were taught using sign language and colour codes during their six-month-long training. By the time they finished the course and returned to their African villages they were qualified to install, maintain, and operate household, solar-powered lighting systems
Today, Bangladesh's young game designers and animators are going back to their roots. They are creating immersive gaming worlds that are based upon the mud, magic and monsoon of the Bengal Delta. By transforming their oral storytelling traditions into structured digital intellectual property rights, these studios are developing cross-media franchises.
Eventually, Kashi became a civilisational capital of India. Poets, saints, scholars, musicians, artisans, and even ordinary citizens helped shape the city. For millennia, seekers and scholars travelled from far and wide in search of knowledge, learning, and even emancipation. Its modern institutions carry that legacy forward.
A registered ayurveda centre - based on India's indigenous system of herb-based medicine - that will provide alternative and complementary treatment for chronic conditions has opened in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, a media report said on Friday
When Aarav Samrat Hada and Aki Zuben Rawat won the boys’ doubles title in the ITF J5 Juniors Tennis Championships in Pakistan last week, it hardly made to the news in Nepal and went largely unnoticed
Nepal has clinched three gold and a silver medal in the 21st edition of World Power Lifting Championship Men’s and Women-2020 in Amaravati, India held from December 5 to 8
The four crew members have completed military tours in combat zones, rowed the North Pacific, ran the Marathon De Sable and climbed mountains
Three Pakistani celebrities have made it to Forbes’ list of Asia's 100 Digital Stars
Five prominent female personalities will be honoured with the Begum Rokeya 2020 award for their outstanding contributions in society and women empowerment
The critically acclaimed Bangladeshi film, "Robibaar" (On a Sunday), recently won two awards at the Madrid International Film Festival 2020
Popular Bangladeshi actor Pori Moni has been included in Forbes Asia magazine's '100 Digital Stars' list
When India underwent a national lockdown due to the pandemic, frequent sightings of wild animals in urban areas led to the misleading assumption that our natural biodiversity had begun to reclaim lost ground and getting restored due to reduced human interference
Swara Bhasker starrer Bhaag Beanie Bhaag, the latest Netflix original, has found a big fan in the Taiwan president who complimented the web series for “bringing laughter and courage in these challenging times.”
Namrata Shrestha has been declared the winner of Miss Nepal 2020. Shrestha, a teacher, was crowned Miss Nepal World 2020 in the grand finale of the event held in Kathmandu on Saturday
A Pakistani lecturer has been ranked among the top 1 per cent of most influential researchers worldwide in the field of computer science
Rahul Kumar, 22, the son of a migrant worker from Sosandi, a village in Bihar's Nalanda district, has graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, one of the premier educational institutes in the country
Indo-Canadian filmmaker Richie Mehta does not seek validation from his International Emmy win for his web series Delhi Crime, but by audience response
Suhaila Siddiq, the first female lieutenant general in the Afghan army and a former minister in the Afghan government, passed away on Friday morning at a hospital in Kabul, reported TOLOnews
