Bitter gourd, or Karela in Hindi, is relished for its benefits and despised for its bitter taste. It is an excellent source of vitamins B1, B2, and B3, C, magnesium, folate, zinc, phosphorus, manganese, and has high dietary fibre. It is highly rich in iron,...
Read morePanaji: A woman was detained at the Goa airport Monday for illegally carrying gold paste worth over Rs 18 lakh, a senior Customs official said. The woman, a foreign national whose identity and nationality were not disclosed, had kept the yellow metal hidden in a...
Read moreNew Delhi: The Supreme Court came down heavily Thursday on CBI joint director M. Nageswara Rao and prosecution in-charge S. Bhasuram Subha Ram for transferring CBI officer AK Sharma probing the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case despite the courts embargo against the transfer of investigating officials....
Read moreBhawanipatna: Congress president Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of ‘snatching’ tribal land and asserted his party will work for protecting the rights of the community while addressing a rally here, Wednesday. Rahul said the BJP-led government at...
Read moreBhubaneswar: The state Assembly Monday mourned the death of a former minister, four former members who died in the intervening period of 14th and 15th session of the current Assembly. The House also condoled the death of security personnel who laid down his life for...
Read moreBhubaneswar: The Union government’s flagship sanitation programme-Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) which is floundering in the state due to its poor coverage compared to most of the other states currently need to build around 15 lakh more toilets to ensure universal coverage. As per the latest...
Read moreLondon: Actor Bella Thorne has said that people do not understand bisexuality. The 21-year-old actor, who came out as bisexual in August 2016, said people still have a narrow-minded attitude towards sexuality, as reported by ‘Contactmusic’. “It seems like no one understands bisexuality at all....
Read moreBritish MPs frustrated with Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy are seeking to force a new approach, which could include delaying Britain's exit from the EU and holding a second referendum. Why now? The House of Commons rejected May's withdrawal deal last week, leaving Britain...
Read moreLucknow: Latching on to the claim by a US-based ‘cyber expert’ that the 2014 Lok Sabha elections were ‘rigged’, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav questioned Tuesday the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) when even the more advanced nations were not using them. Akhilesh asserted...
Read moreLahore: The killing of four people, including a man, his wife and their teenage daughter, in what Pakistan’s Punjab police called a shootout with ‘terrorists’ has triggered a public outcry and the victims’ family held a protest against the ‘staged’ encounter. The family was travelling...
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Caught in a state of shock and numbness, it will take time for the Indian paramilitary forces to recover and...
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Fire safety remains abysmal in the country despite the numerous examples that incidents in the past have set. Only recently...
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‘Eradication of corruption’ and ‘development’ were two of the major poll planks on which the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance...
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Democracy, widely acclaimed to be the best form of governance that civilised society has, till now, discovered is facing some...
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