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New Delhi, Oct 30 : Writer and diplomat Abhay K, the Indian Ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros, who has edited the recently released ‘The Bloomsbury Book of Great Indian Love Poems’ that comprises verses from 28 Indian languages spanning over 3000 …

New Delhi, Oct 29 : Delhi continued to witness an unprecedented rise in the number of daily infections on Thursday as well.According to a health department bulletin, the national capital recorded 5,739 fresh Covid-19 cases, the highest single-day spi…

New Delhi, Oct 29 : The income tax department conducted a search action in the case of a Bijnor-based group engaged in real estate business and its associates.The operation conducted on October 28 was based on allegations that the group companies wer…

New Delhi, Oct 29 : With the easing of restrictions and decreasing fear of COVID-19, the people of Delhi are moving back to the markets to shop for festivals and the wedding season.While the COVIID-19 pandemic has changed a lot of things including th…

New Delhi, Oct 29 : Women’s rights activist and granddaughter of freedom fighter late Nazim Ali, Naish Hasan, who hails from Lucknow, has become the voice of Muslim women today.For the past two decades she has been fighting for women’s rights which i…

New Delhi, Oct 29 : The ninth edition of one of India’s most well-regarded and intimate film festivals, the Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) made its online debut on Thursday (October 29- November 4). Founded by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing …

Lucknow, Oct 29 : Bahujan Samaj Party President Mayawati on Thursday accused the Samajwadi Party of being anti-Dalit and admitted that withdrawing the case related to the state guest house attack on her in 1995 was a ‘mistake’ on her part.In a press …

Lucknow, Oct 29 : The Congress suffered a major setback in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday when former MP Annu Tandon quit the party with her supporters.In a press release, Tandon has blamed the state leadership for her decision and said that she had met C…

Lucknow, Oct 29 : The Samajwadi Party (SP) is up in arms against the Yogi Adityanath government after toilets in the railway hospital in Gorakhpur were painted in red and green — the colours of the SP flag.In a tweet from its official Twitter handle…

New Delhi, Oct 29 : It was six years back, during Begum Akhtar’s centenary celebrations in Lucknow that lawyer Askari Naqvi discussed the idea of a production involving Soz Khwani, Marsiya Khwani and other forms witnessed during Muharram with his fam…