Freed from the shackles of child labour in 2010, a tribal man from Jharkhand’s Giridih went on to win the prestigious 2020 Diana Award in recognition of his efforts to bring positive and sustain...

Lyricist Javed Akhtar has become the first Indian to be named the recipient of the Richard Dawkins Award, named after the renowned evolutionary biologist.Akhtar has been given the honour for critical ...

Rohit Sharma has been nominated for the prestigious Khel Ratna award by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for his stupendous performance in 2019. Team India’s limited-overs vice-capta...

Multiple FIRs have been filed against a college teacher in Assam for allegedly trying to defame Sahitya Akademi Award winning writer and former Asam Sahitya Sabha president Syed Abdul Malik by uploadi...

Five innovative schemes and projects, initiated by the Hailakandi administration, have been selected for nominations for SKOCH Award. These are Akanksha, Seetalpati diversification, Amla-Gur candy (Po...

Caroline Malsawmtluangi, an 11-year-old from Aizawl, who got the national bravery award for saving a minor girl from being abducted, shared half of the cash award received with the rescued minor.She w...

Ganesh Haloi, renowned artist and resident of AE Block, received the Manojmohan Basu Smarak Samman at the Literature Festival and Little Magazine Fair, organised by Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi. At a p...

Ruskin Bond is expected to enthral audiences once again at the third edition of Jharkhand Literary Meet to be held at Audrey House, the usual venue, in Ranchi on February 1 and 2.According to a schedu...

 The Jammu and Kashmir administration has 'forfeited' the Sher-e-Kashmir Police Medal for Gallantry awarded to deputy superintendent of police Davinder Singh, who has been arrested for helping te...

Jasbinder Bilan, a schoolteacher who writes in her spare time, has won the Costa Children’s Book Award for Asha & The Spirit Bird, a tale set in the Himalayan foothills where the author was born...