Everything you need to know about Sankar: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Sankar: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Washington, May 11 (IANS) Kolkata-born Ritankar Das, a bioengineering and chemical biology double major at the University of California at Berkeley, has become the youngest student to receive the University Medal in more than a century.
Bhubaneswar, April 19 (IANS) A 29-year-old man in Odisha has been arrested for allegedly posting several morphed, "obscene" photographs and videos of a state minister and a girl on different websites, an official said Friday.
Guwahati, March 16 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has said that the state government would soon start the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Jamshedpur, March 5 (IANS) Defending champions Pune FC kicked-off their Under-20 I-League football title defence with a 2-0 win over Prayag United at the Gopal Stadium here Tuesday.
Bhubaneswar, Feb 16 (IANS) Police Saturday rescued the chairman of the ARSS Group Subash Agarwal and his cousin from Andhra Pradesh, hours after they were kidnapped from Odisha, an official said.
Mysore, Feb 2 (IANS) Bangalore's driver-navigator pair of Chidanand Murthy and Sujith Kumar BS led a team Tata Motors Full Throttle sweep as they won the Overall and Pro-Stock titles in the sixth and concluding round of the FMSCI-JK Tyre Indian National TSD Rally Championship here Saturday.
Kolkata, Jan 26 (IANS) Distinguished 'machine intelligence' scientist Sankar Kumar Pal, who has been named for Padma Shri, India's high civilian award, hopes it will inspire scientists for ground-breaking works.
Agartala, Dec 12 (IANS) Ten people, including a child and three women, were killed and four critically injured when the jeep in which they were travelling collided with a mini-truck in Tripura, an official said Wednesday.
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Young directors, international collaborations and new interpretations will be the focus of this year's Ibsen Festival starting here next month.
Washington, Oct 29 (IANS) The first mouse model of typhoid fever, developed by an Indian-American microbiologist and colleagues, could help in creating more potent vaccines against the deadly pathogen.
Washington, October 28 (ANI): Researchers at the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) including Indian origin scientists have developed the first true mouse model of typhoid infection.
Kolkata, Oct 23 (IANS) Leading writers, scientists and celebrities of Bengal Tuesday saluted the genius and literary contributions of litterateur and Sahitya Akademi president Sunil Gangopadhyay.
Washington, September 20 (ANI): People who cooked with a blend of sesame and rice bran oils saw a significant drop in blood pressure and improved cholesterol levels, according to a study conducted in New Delhi.
Bangalore, Aug 20 (IANS) Underling their status as one of the country's top pairs, the husband-wife duo of Satish Gopalkrishnan and Savera D'Souza from Bangalore annexed the overall and Pro-Expert class titles in the Rally of Bangalore, the first round of the Indian National TSD Rally Championship here.
Panaji, July 22 (IANS) Karthick Maruti (co-driver S. Sankar Anand) with a penalty of 1 minute 52 seconds emerged overall champion in the Mahindra Monsoon Challenge Rally that concluded here Sunday.
Mangalore (Karnataka), July 20 (IANS) T. Sasikumar (co-driver M Prakash) took a slender three-second lead at the end of the first leg in the Mahindra Monsoon Challenge Rally in association with Apollo Tyres that ended here Friday night.
Agartala, June 12 (IANS) Braving soaring summer heat, a record 95 percent of the 33,392-strong electorate Tuesday cast their votes in the significant by-election from the Nalchar assembly constituency in western Tripura, officials said here. Polling was peaceful.
Agartala, June 11 (IANS) Amidst unprecedented security and high political significance, the by-election to the Nalchar assembly constituency in western Tripura would be held Tuesday.
Bhubaneswar, May 28 (IANS) The death toll from sunstroke climbed to 21 in Odisha with officials Monday confirming the death of a 55-year-old man in Khordha district.
Bhubaneswar, May 17 (IANS) A court in Odisha Thursday issued a notice to Facebook India for allegedly publishing on its social networking site some objectionable content related to a political party, a lawyer said.
Coimbatore, April 12 (IANS) There appears a jinx about the Maruti Suzuki Dakshin Dare as it completed Day Four on a sour note with three more Special Stages cancelled as the caravan wended its way into the textile town in the early hours of Thursday with the front-runners still looking in their rear-view mirrors.
The communal genii whose support the Congress invoked to oust Kerala's first Communist government more than 50 years ago are still around and turning the state's politics viral.
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) Leading direct selling company Avon Beauty Products India Thursday announced the appointment of Ujjwal Sankar Mukhopadhyay as its new managing director.
Koraput, Sep 11(ANI): Maoist ultras have killed two villagers by slitting their throats in Narayanpatna area of Orissa's Koraput district, as they suspected the duo to be police informers.
Kurseong (West Bengal), Sep.10 (ANI): Forest Rangers and game wardens of the Mahananda Wildlife Division aided by veterinarians rescued and treated an injured wild elephant in West Bengal's Kurseong area on Friday.
Washington, August 20 (ANI): Metabolic syndrome, which comprises a group of medical disorders that increase people's risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and premature death risk, may contribute to kidney disease, according to a new study led by an Indian-origin researcher.
New Delhi, Aug.10 (ANI): A high level 15-member delegation of Bangladesh Parliament led by Dr. Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, MP, Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) visited the Lok Sabha from August 8 to 10.
Washington, June 23 (ANI): An international team, led by an Indian-origin scientist, has taken inspiration from a flying reptile pterosaurs' head crest to design an aircraft.
Agartala, June 20 (ANI): Bihu, the national festival of Assam, was recently held in Tripura to spread awareness about different existing cultures in the region.
Kuala Lumpur, Mar.19 (ANI): Malaysian Indian Congress President G. Palanivel has asked the government to take the views of the three Indian representatives on the Interlok panel seriously.
Siliguri, Feb 6 (ANI): Authorities deployed a battalion of women Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in West Bengal's Siliguri town to stop a protest rally held by activists of the regional Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists.
Washington, Jan 14 (ANI): Paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest known crocodile ancestor that lived in what is now West Texas 225 million years ago.
Darjeeling, Jan 12 (ANI): Normal life in Darjeeling came to a halt on Wednesday as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) began the first phase of shutdown.
Siliguri, Nov.18 (ANI): Gorkha Janamukti Morcha convener Sankar Adhikari has said a separate Gorkhaland State would curb the national identity crisis and secure the future of the next generation.
Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): A new study has suggested that sometimes pride in an achievement can lead people to indulge in unhealthy choices.
Washington, Oct 29 (ANI): For the first time, scientists have discovered the complete remains of a pivotal ancestor of Earth's largest land animals - the sauropod dinosaurs, in China.
Raipur, Oct.19 (ANI): The Chhattisgarh government along with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) introduced a Multi Grade-Multi Level (MGML) course for school students in the state.
Kolkata/Siliguri/Mumbai, Aug 3 (ANI): Scores of Democratic Youth Federation of India (D.Y.F.I) activists took to the streets here on Tuesday to protest unemployment and the soaring prices.
Siliguri (West Bengal), Jan 30 (ANI): Activists of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJMM), who are spearheading the movement for a separate Gorkhaland state, blocked the national highway-55 (NH-55) for around two-hours leading to traffic suspension.
Siliguri, Dec.26 (ANI): Activists of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), a regional organisation spearheading the demand for a separate state, stepped up their protest on Saturday (December 26) for separate state of Gorkhaland, as they went on a hunger strike here.
Norcross, Georgia (US), Nov 25 (ANI/Business Wire India): Suniva(r), Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells and supplier of Suniva-branded solar modules, announced the completion of its collaborative project with Titan Energy Systems Ltd. to create India's first large-scale project in Jamuria, West Bengal.
Washington, October 25 (ANI): A team of scientists has determined that a particular pterosaur that existed 115 million years ago was a master of nature's drawing boards, as it not only could walk and fly, but also sail across the sea.
Washington, October 16 (ANI): If a new study is anything to go by, dinosaurs were killed by a giant impact near India, not Mexico.
Washington, Sept 18 (ANI): Shedding extra pounds can preserve kidney function in obese people with kidney disease, according to a new study led by Indian origin scientist from Cleveland Clinic.
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Most Indian companies have decided not to resort to any more job cuts even as they have put a cap on fresh hiring and staff incentives with a curb on outstation travel for executives, says a survey released Thursday.
Ahmedabad, April 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Gujarat for taking credit for the state's economic development, and said Gujarat had been considered well developed even before the BJP came to power.
London, April 22 (IANS) Fortyseven years after he created a sensation with his best-selling novel about a hotel in his native Kolkata, Bengali writer Sankar is kicking up a literary storm in the West.
Chennai, Apr 16 (ANI): Five persons were killed and two others injured when a boiler meant for melting scraps exploded in an industrial estate here on Thursday.
Siliguri, Mar 26 (ANI): The Election Commission has imposed a ban on wall graffiti for campaigning.
Kolkata, Mar 10 (ANI): Ahead of the general elections, hundreds of activists of farmers union affiliated to the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) staged demonstration here.
Kochi, Jan 12 (IANS) A Kerala court Monday sentenced a senior police official and three others to six months imprisonment for custodial torture of a newspaper editor nearly 11 years ago.
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) A young candidate as deputy prime minister, a positive agenda and a promise of change -- these are some suggestions that the common man has for senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani for the coming general elections.
Sydney, Dec 5 (IANS) Members of the Indian community in Australia have held a series of meetings, attended by prominent Australian lawmakers and officials, to express their anguish at the Mumbai terror attacks as well those in Assam earlier.
Jagatsinghpur (Orissa), Oct 22 (IANS) As many 17 Bangladeshi fishermen were arrested Wednesday for illegally fishing in the Bay of Bengal near Orissa's Paradip port, police said.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Malswemfela, Tirthankar Sankar, Harpreet Bedi are not familiar names in Indian football. But the 16-year-olds will carry the national pride when India take on the continent's best at the Under-16 Asian Championship, starting Saturday at Tashkent, Uzbeksitan.
Washington, September 30 (ANI): A scientist of Indian origin, along with his team, is designing a robotic aircraft inspired by a 225-million-year old crested pterodactyl.
Washington, September 30 (ANI): A scientist of Indian origin, along with his team, is designing a robotic aircraft inspired by a 225-million-year old crested pterodactyl.
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Malswemfela, Tirthankar Sankar, Harpreet Bedi are not familiar names in Indian football. But the 16-year-olds will carry the national pride when India take on the continent's best at the Under-16 Asian Championship, starting Saturday at Tashkent, Uzbeksitan.
Mumbai, Aug 23 (ANI): Bollywood director Mani Shankar and actor Sameer Dattani get candid and talk about their movie 'Mukhbir' that revolves around the life of a spy of an Indian intelligence agency.
Considering the coming election, the Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Organisation has fixed the interest
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