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Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)Newsmakers
Asia's biggest literary festival kicks off in style

JLF has always attracted hordes of teenyboppers trying to catch a glimpse of Bollywood celebs who have become regulars...

20 Jan 2017 6:54 AM IST

Kodes, who has performed since 2008, achieved a Guinness World Record in 2014 for \most people inside a soap bubble\, which at that time stood at 214. (Photo: Youtube)Newsmakers
Czech bubble artist creates soap 'screen' record with 275 students

Matej Kodes raised the screen around a rectangular 11 metre-by-7.5 metre area

19 Jan 2017 1:36 PM IST

Manvendra Singh Gohil. (Photo: Videograb)Newsmakers
Gay prince on front line of India's war against AIDS

India has the third highest number of HIV/AIDS cases in the world according to the United Nations, with about 2.1...

19 Jan 2017 1:02 PM IST

Priyanka Chopra (Photo: AP)Newsmakers
Priyanka Chopra scores second win at People's Choice Awards

This is Priyanka's second People's Choice win, having been named the favourite actress in a new TV series last year.

19 Jan 2017 10:39 AM IST

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This is how Deepika Padukone bagged a role in Vin Diesel's Hollywood...

The actress revealed that after her audition, she flew from Toronto to LA to meet Vin Diesel.

19 Jan 2017 10:26 AM IST

Essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb and actor Rishi Kapoor will attend the Jaipur Literature Festival.Newsmakers
JLF to focus on 70 years of Independence

Rajasthan CM will formally inaugurate the Jaipur Literature Festival along with lyricist Gulzar and American poet Anne...

19 Jan 2017 6:58 AM IST

Iraqi forces pushing through eastern Mosul took control over the weekend of Mosul UniversityNewsmakers
Artist in Iraq recreates artworks destroyed by ISIS

The statues included winged bulls with human faces, known as lamassu, and a bronze head of King Sargon of Akkad.

18 Jan 2017 1:36 PM IST

With their hair hastily knotted, eyes focused on their instruments, the musicians performed in unison under Khpalwaks baton earlier this month at one of their last rehearsals in Kabul before the concert. (Photo: Videograb)Newsmakers
Afghanistan's first female orchestra to perform in Davos

Zohra, an ensemble of 35 musicians aged 13 to 20, some orphans or from poor families, will be performing before 3,000...

18 Jan 2017 12:06 PM IST

He was presented with a citation by former India player and Legends Club President Madhav Apte. (Photo: PTI)Newsmakers
Kapil Dev inducted into Legends Club 'Hall of Fame'

Dev, who led India to the emphatic World Cup victory in 1983, is considered as the country's greatest all-rounder

18 Jan 2017 10:58 AM IST

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (Photo: AP)Newsmakers
Hillary Clinton: The comeback queen?

The former first lady also 'brings all that star power that de Blasio does not have,' a political science professor...

18 Jan 2017 10:12 AM IST

Salman and Shah Rukh are famous for their hit jodi in the movie Karan ArjunNewsmakers
Shah Rukh and Salman team-up for a war movie

The Khans finally reunite! Shah Rukh and Salman in Kabir Khan's upcoming movie.

18 Jan 2017 9:36 AM IST

Gene CernanNewsmakers
The moonwalker with message of peace dies at 82

Cernan was commander of Nasa's Apollo 17 mission and on his third space flight when he set foot on the lunar surface.

18 Jan 2017 2:36 AM IST

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