Day: January 1, 2019

Kader Khan, best known for penning some of the most powerful dialogues and comic timing as an actor, passed away on December 31 due to prolonged illness.

An elaborate three-day coronation ceremony for Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn will be held in early May, more than two and half years after the death of his revered father Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Terms such as toxic, misinformation, nomophobia, single-use and justice remained in focus in 2018 and have been adjudged top words of the year by dictionaries.

A morsing is a wind percussion instrument, mainly used in the Carnatic music. It can be categorised under lamellophones, which is in the category of plucked idiophones.

As Australia swelters in an extreme heatwave, a video of a woman in the state of Victoria pouring water into the mouth of a thirsty koala has melted hearts online.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft broke a record after successfully entering into orbit around the asteroid Bennu — the smallest cosmic object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft. While many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 110 million kilometers away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters, NASA said in a statement.

Nuclear-armed North Korea wants good relations with the US but could consider a change of approach if Washington maintains its sanctions, leader Kim Jong Un warned in his New Year speech Tuesday after 12 months of diplomatic rapprochement.

n a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Pradhan said as per the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2018, the country’s oil demand is projected to jump by 61 per cent….

Nearly 18 months and many amendments after the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was rolled out, consumers will now be able to pay less on 23 items that include services and goods, from today.

The Telecom Department (DoT) will hold a meeting on 4 January with telecom operators, airlines and shipping companies to discuss a road map for in-flight and maritime mobile services.