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You might have smelled durian several times, what was your reaction? Well, in India, its pretty normal for people to smell and eat it, but in Australia, the case is somehow different.  The smell of durian created panic on campus if the Canberra library. According to reports, the people at the campus felt strong smell …

In a development which could worry the government, the Islamic State (IS) claimed that the terror group have established a new “province” in India. The announcement was made after the clashes were reported between terrorists and security forces on May 10 in Kashmir. “Wilayah of Hind” or India province, is the new branch with an Arabic name and the declaration …

As the world marks International Mother’s Day, it is customary to thank our mothers with flowers, chocolates, greeting cards, take them out for a dinner or a message of thanksgiving on social media for the years of selfless service they did in bringing you up and help you reach where you are today.  But, beyond that, has anyone asked what …

In a tragic incident, an Indian man working at the Kuwait Airport was run over by an empty Boeing 777 aircraft while it was being towed away. The freak accident happened on Monday after the tow bar used to tow the empty Boeing 777 from the airport yard to the terminal snapped. The victim, identified as Anand Ramachandran, a native …

It has been four days since Cyclone Fani, one of the strongest unseasonal cyclonic winds in the Bay of Bengal ravaged parts of Odisha and West Bengal. In Odisha, which was the worst-hit, 37 people lost their lives in the cyclone-related mishaps.  Odisha has been praised from world over for its cyclone preparedness and timely evacuation that saved the lives …

Keshav Chandra will turn 19 in three days. This birthday will be even more special as he will celebrate scoring 96 per cent marks in his 12th exam with 100 marks in legal studies.   Chandra, who lives with cerebral palsy, tells a tale of courage, emotions, learning and everything a human aspires to have in order to rival the gods. …

It took Uttar Pradesh Police six months to realize that one of its constables who had gone missing following a month-long leave in November last year was, in fact, a convict in the infamous 1987 Hashimpura massacre serving a life sentence. Kanwar Pal Singh, a 55-year-old constable posted at Bijnor’s Badhapur police station last, was finally terminated on Friday following …

Exam results of both CBSE and ICSE boards have been announced and several students have managed to score extremely well. It’s a rarity that students manage to get ent per cent marks in their board exams but two students who appeared in the ISC exam managed to score 100 per cent marks. Kolkata’s Dewang Kumar Agarwal and Bengaluru’s Vibha Swaminathan …

A ‘royal’ tiger housed in captivity at the city’s National Park died of old age early on Friday. The park’s only surviving white tiger, Bajirao, who was 18 years old, was unable to walk due to long-standing arthritis. Bajirao had been afflicted with ‘chronic senile generalised arthritis’ for four years. The condition is akin to an aged human’s inability to …

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly all set to send microchips embedded with human cells or human organs as they are called. The objective is to find out travel to space affects human body. “The organs on a chip replicate human physiological function at the cellular level and have been designed to study those processes easier than in actual humans,” reads …