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Avneet has been a regular participant in district and state level competitions and soon will go for international level competitions.

13-year Haryana teen develops solar powered bike

Avneet has earlier created an eco-friendly air cooler, solar spray pumps, and solar toys.

31 March 2017 1:01 PM IST

Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey ( Photo: Facebook)

Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey is leaving Facebook

Oculus is a startup that Facebook acquired in 2014 for about $2billion to grow in virtual reality market

31 March 2017 10:38 AM IST

Dylans last album. Fallen Angels had released last year.

Bob Dylan to interpret songs from '30s to '50s in first album after...

'Triplicate,' which comes out Friday, is also the first three-disc original album by the rock legend.

31 March 2017 9:29 AM IST

Twitter Indias Raheel Khursheed named 2017 World Fellow at Yale University

Twitter India's Raheel Khursheed named 2017 World Fellow at Yale...

He is one of only 16 people chosen for this prestigious global leadership development program at Yale University.

30 March 2017 8:02 PM IST

Karmapa Lama Thaye Dorje. (Photo: Twitter | @karmapaorg)

Top Tibetan lama abandons monkhood to marry childhood friend

Thaye Dorje will continue to fulfill the role of the Karmapa, including by offering teachings and blessings to students...

30 March 2017 4:39 PM IST

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson

Peggy Whitson set to break Sunita Williams' spacewalking record

Williams has made seven spacewalks totalling 50 hours and 40 minutes

30 March 2017 3:19 PM IST

First lady Melania Trump presents the 2017 Secretarys of States International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award to Natalia Ponce de Leon, from Colombia. (Photo: AP)

US: 13 women worldwide receive courage awards from First Lady

The award is for women who have shown courage and leadership while advocating for peace, justice and human rights.

30 March 2017 2:28 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: PTI)

WB govt starts home delivery service Meat on Wheelz' in Kolkata

The upside of this unconventional system is that, besides chicken and mutton, the vans would also serve meat of quail,...

30 March 2017 2:22 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: AP)

Modi 'most successful' PM, after Nehru, Indira Gandhi: Ramachandra...

Speaking at the LSE India Summit 2017, Guha said Modi's "authority" and "Pan-Indian vision" put him on par with Nehru...

30 March 2017 1:22 PM IST

Shakira to open seventh school in Colombia

"We built schools where the government was absent and thousands of children didn't have access to quality education.

30 March 2017 11:16 AM IST

Srinath Narayanan is set to become Indias 46th Grandmaster. (Photo: Facebook/Srinath Narayanan)

Chennai's Srinath, 23, set to become India's 46th Grandmaster

He also finished as joint winner in the Under-12 World Championship in 2005 in France.

29 March 2017 6:52 PM IST

Karan Johar last directed Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.

Karan Johar finally brings his babies, Yash and Roohi, home

The kids were discharged from Surya Hospital in Mumbai after being in neonatal intensive care unit for seven weeks.

29 March 2017 5:40 PM IST