Month: February 2021

Ravichandran Ashwin on Thursday became only the fourth Indian and sixth spinner in the world to take 400 Test wickets, a feat which was nothing short of a “fairytale” for the seasoned pro who was called a “modern day legend” by skipper Virat Kohli.

The French East India Company was established in 1664, as a part of an expedition to develop new trade routes in the East.

After establishing their first factory in Surat (Gujarat) the French continued their Indian expansion on the Eastern Coast of the peninsula, covering the Coromandel Coast, Odisha Coast, Malabar Coast and a few territories in Bengal.

However, it was Pondicherry that had the biggest cultural impact of the French, that it continues to resonate to date

The group, through its subsidiary DLF Cyber City Developers (DCCDL), purchased 51.8 per cent stake in the firm that operates Gurgaon’s upmarket commercial complex One Horizon Center

For the Khimji Ramdas business conglomerate and the close cluster of families running it in the Sultanate of Oman, he was a patriarch, who was at the helm for five decades.

For the Indian community in that Gulf country in general and the non-resident Indians in particular, he was the ever-helpful father figure “Kanakbhai” – Sheikh Kanaksi Gokaldas Khimji, to address in full form by way of the protocol.

Agartala Municipal Corporation almost generates 19 tonnes of plastic daily and such initiatives are expected to help the authority in better managing the plastic waste.

The 22nd of February — tomorrow — is the deathday of a woman who did her life proud by her death. Valliamma R. Munuswamy Mudaliar belonged to a Tamil family from the village of Thillaiyadi, now in the state’s Nagapattinam district. Her ancestors had been indentured, like several others from the Indian peninsula and even from ‘up North’, to work on plantations and in mines in South Africa.

Thirty years later, her jail-mate was in prison again, this time in India. Kasturba had been permitted to join her husband, imprisoned in the Aga Khan’s Palace Prison in Poona, for having heralded the Quit India resolution, asking Britain to exit from India. And she was gravely ill.

Sikari Tisso — awarded the Linguistic Society of America’s Excellence in Community Linguistics Award (2021) — has been documenting the Karbi language for two decades now