Shobha Deepak Singh, whose association with the legendary Kishori Amonkar, spanned 35 years, shares her memories of the musical genius.
Sources said the designers present in the meeting will submit their individual proposals shortly to the MSME ministry entailing suggestions to set up design centres.
In a bid to promote two-way engagement and build better understanding with the Overseas Indian community, a unique institution - 'Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra' - will come up in New Delhi by next year.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday stressed for a change of regime in West Bengal, saying that the Left Front Government had failed to utilise Central funds given to the state for its development.
Chaudhary joined BJP at an event of the party's newly launched membership drive at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi.
Queing before Income Tax Department officials will soon become a practice of the past. The department is making an elaborate plan to equip its offices throughout the country with Aaykar Seva Kendras (ASKs) which will work as a single-window facility for taxpayers for filing applications for services and redressal of grievances including paper returns.
Winning an election may be a breeze for the BJP but the aftermath of victory isn't always painless.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday proposed to introduce a new simplified income tax return form 'Sugam' to reduce compliance burden of small taxpayers.
Budget for women and children welfare increased from Rs 1,56,528 crores to Rs 1,84,632 crores for 2017-18
Nearly 150 to 200 women are killed every year in India after being tagged as 'witches', a Dehra Dun based non-governmental organisation has said, citing National Crime Bureau's statistics. Jharkhand tops the list with 50-60 witchcraft-related murders every year followed by Andhra Pradesh, where the number is approximately 30, Haryana recorded 25-30 cases and Orissa 24-28 such murders, Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra Chairman Avdhash Kaushal claimed.
Though agriculture ministry officials are confident of a bumper harvest due to record increase in kharif acreage, experts and farmers said the on-ground situation in some crops is not that encouraging as incessant rains since the last few weeks and pest attack could impact the final yield.
Reports said that in Telangana and Karnataka, excessive rains the past 10 days has threatened the standing green gram and maize crops and could negatively impact yields if the skies don't open up. But in the north-west and central parts of India, the resurgence of monsoon could not have come at a better time as oilseeds and pulses crops would otherwise had weathered if the rains didn't revive in August.
The trolling of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is wrong, the HM said.
In the Narendra Modi-Shah masterminded regime, organisational elections have acquired the gravity, authority and colour of a national or state poll, reports Radhika Ramaseshan.
A total of 3,30,27,661 people had applied to be included in the NRC. Of them, 3,11,21,004 have been included in the document and 19,06,657 excluded.
It will be the end of an era for athletics on Saturday when Usain Bolt races for the last time in the men's 4x100 metres relay at the World Championships.
The first meeting of the newly-reconstituted Central Employment Guarantee Council last week, meant to oversee the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, saw two prominent members, Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, object to various new ideas of the government, beginning with the one of using it to build Bharat Nirman Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendras, meant to serve as offices for panchayats.
By the end of this fiscal, income tax payers will be able to get all their problems relating to filing of returns and obtaining of refunds, among others, addressed at nine more help centres.
Threat calls send New Delhi into a tizzy.
The government on Monday announced that those who have lost their passports or got them damaged due to the floods in Chennai can have them replaced free of charge.
Tudu's free tuition classes are sought after. She has 45 students who come to her every day to study. Geetanjali Krishna meets the young teacher in one of India's poorest villages, winner of the Plan India Youth Champion Award.
He further said that time has come to discuss the issue of Ram Temple and should try to find a permanent solution.
The pilot project would cover entire Karnataka and parts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, external affairs minister S M Krishna said while replying to a discussion on the working of his ministry. The project, when completed, would substantially improve the level of passport-related services offered to people, he said adding this was one of the largest e-governance initiatives undertaken by the government.
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said the "historic day will remain etched in their memories forever".
President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders condoled the death of Veerendra Kumar.
Swaraj had been liking posts of trolls who have been targeting her on the passport controversy, as part of her unique protests.
Launching a veiled attack on Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, who he did not mention by name, Modi said Bihar has come out of an era when rail, road and internet connectivity were made light of and people used to say of what use roads are for those who walk on their feet.
In Central India, the standing soybean and pulses crops have also been hit but the loss isn't massive as the showers were followed by relatively bright sunshine that helped absorb soil moisture
'They wil show the whole world see how this government is treating its farmers.'
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022.
Applying for a passport is no longer the nightmare it used to be, thanks to the government outsourcing parts of the process. But there still are things you need to know before you take the plunge.
The Young Professional Committee of the Share and Care Foundation, a New Jersey-based social service agency, raised $31,000 at its second annual charity gala at the Manhattan Penthouse in New York City.
Girija Tripathi's licence for her NGO was suspended in 2017.
The 25-day long third year summer training camp organised by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh began at Reshimbag in Nagpur, senior RSS functionary Dattatreya Hosabale said on Tuesday.
A special on Vivekananda Kendra Natural Resources Development Project, an NGO involved in groundwater augmentation through rainwater harvesting and artificial recharge.
The government-owned Fortune 500 company, which is the country's largest company in terms of sales, has already commissioned 1,180 Kisan Sewa Kendras.
With 41 stitching patterns under their belt, the Lambani women have not only earned a GI tag for Sandur, their art has also travelled to the London Fashion Week and that Fabindia store near you.
Lead by example... that's the adage our netas followed on Thursday as several of them took to performing various asanas across the country to mark the country's fourth Yoga Day. Here's a look at some of them.
The Trust has been running a vocational training centre on state land allegedly without proper authorisation.
An Indore-based NGO has undertaken this project where all dialogues and songs of the film would be screened in sign language.
