Former Australia cricketer Dav Whatmore was on Thursday appointed as head coach of the Nepal fledgling cricket team
Political parties, of course, have their numerical calculations in place, making ground-level behavioural changes irrelevant. Even in the past, it rarely mattered. Vote-bank politics continues to dominate, leaving the bhadralok—Bengal’s genteel middle class—in a quiet, uneasy dilemma.
Salilda was 27 when he achieved this break in 1952-53. Till his last day he never looked back. He composed music in 143 films, 75 of them in Hindi, 41 in Bengali and 27 in Malayalam. Besides, he composed music in 13 languages. He was adept at playing flute, piano, esraj and harmonium.
'The myriad stories one has heard about Indians and Pakistanis opening their homes and hearts to strangers from the other side seemed to belong to another age. One has heard many anecdotes of strangers being invited for meals into homes and not being charged for goods and services. For me, the number of such experiences was zero.’
The most celebrated films in the Dutt oeuvre - Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), explored themes of unfulfilled love, societal alienation and the struggles of the human spirit, making him the unsung poet of Indian cinema. TIME magazine included Pyaasa in its ‘100 Best Films of All Time’
Former Australia cricketer Dav Whatmore was on Thursday appointed as head coach of the Nepal fledgling cricket team
INDIA on Thursday formally recognised yoga as a competitive sport
His father is in jail, his mother has deserted him and he does not remember the name of his village he is from. For the past few years, nine-year-old Ankit has been living on a footpath and surviving by working at a tea stall in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh
After nine months of banning devotees' entry, Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu is open for public from Wednesday
Atonement worship is to be offered at the Pashupatinath Temple tomorrow morning, seeking forgiveness as the shrine had to be shut to the devotees for nine months corresponding to the COVID-19 pandemic
Famed American pop singer Cher took to Twitter over the weekend to react to last week’s report that Sri Lanka was leading the world in elephant killings
Thirteen of the world's 14 peaks taller than 8,000-meters have been climbed in winter
Pakistani celebrities including Sarwat Gilani, Bilal Abbas Khan, Ali Zafar and Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy have made it to Eastern Eye's Top 50 Asian Celebrities of the World in 2020
Seeing Hindu devotees struggle to pray to their favourite deity, a Muslim businessman has donated a 1,650 sq feet plot valued around Rs 1 crore (10 million rupees) to Sri Veeranjaneya Swamy temple in Hosakote, on the outskirts of Bengaluru, known as India's tech capital
A man was arrested for vandalising the statue of Sikh leader Maharaja Ranjit Singh, located in the Lahore Fort, on Friday and several have come forward to condemn the act
Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has been named the number one Asian celebrity on the planet for 2020
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