Dhubri boy Xahid Khan, who once rejected a job offer at Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment, won an award at the Emirates Short Film Festival in Dubai. Khan’s Mistake won the second best r...

 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...

Tarapore School, Agrico, on Saturday bagged the coveted Dr JJ Irani Award for Excellence in Education for the second consecutive year. This year, too, the school scored over 600 out of 1,000 marks to ...

The Union human resource development ministry has replaced the President with “any dignitary” chosen by it as the person who will give away the annual Presidential Award of Certificates to scholar...

Eminent litterateur Nabaneeta Dev Sen died in her South Calcutta home late on Thursday after a protracted illness. She was 81 years and is survived by two daughters — writer Antara and actor Nandana...

Mein Pragati Assam, run by CRISIL Foundation, a project in Assam where there is no payment of money or goods to the beneficiaries but only transfer of financial knowledge, has won the National CSR Awa...

Jurismita Puzari of Guwahati and Uday Shankar Borah of Dergaon got “National Karmaveer Chakra Awards by REX and United Nations” for their commendable work for society recently in New Delhi. Puzari...

Conventionally, firewood and electricity are used for cremation, but they are not always pocket-friendly. The son of a Katras milkman is turning cow dung into eco-friendly logs to buffer costs and let...

A tweeter asked Union minister Smriti Irani: “Madam... I am confused which is more authentic — your Yale degree or this Kotler Award?”You know the answer when Rahul Gandhi, Sitaram Yechury and O...

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