Impressed by Kazi’s mimicry and raw acting skills, Dutt took a gamble on the bus conductor, cast him, and renamed him after his favourite Scotch — Johnny Walker.
Between 2005 and 2011, 140 African women, most of them grandmothers, traveled to Tilonia from villages in Africa to be trained as solar engineers. None of the women could read or write, nor could speak Hindi. So, they were taught using sign language and colour codes during their six-month-long training. By the time they finished the course and returned to their African villages they were qualified to install, maintain, and operate household, solar-powered lighting systems
Today, Bangladesh's young game designers and animators are going back to their roots. They are creating immersive gaming worlds that are based upon the mud, magic and monsoon of the Bengal Delta. By transforming their oral storytelling traditions into structured digital intellectual property rights, these studios are developing cross-media franchises.
Eventually, Kashi became a civilisational capital of India. Poets, saints, scholars, musicians, artisans, and even ordinary citizens helped shape the city. For millennia, seekers and scholars travelled from far and wide in search of knowledge, learning, and even emancipation. Its modern institutions carry that legacy forward.
The devastating economic fallout of COVID-19 does not spare museums too. As the world marks International Museums Day on May 18, IBNS correspondent Supriyo Hazra caught up with Vinod Daniel, Member, Board, International Council of Museums (ICOM), Paris
An international expedition abandoned its attempt to scale Mount Everest, citing risks posed by an increasing number of COVID-19 cases at the base camp, The Himalayan Times reported
To ensure high-speed internet connectivity at the world’s second tallest peak K2 base camp, the Pakistan government has installed a 4G Base Transceiver Station (BTS) in the base camp area of Concordia
Sonia Naz has become Pakistan’s first transgender person to start her own fashion designing business after getting a soft loan of Rs 1 million under the Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme (YES)
Sakina Abbas, 25, from Karachi, is one of the few women in Pakistan who defied norms and studied computer sciences, and is now the country’s first female Google Developers Experts for Flutter
Indian director Bratya Basu’s film 'Dictionary' has bagged the Gautam Buddha Award in the Best Feature Film category in the Nepal International Film Festival
Former England captain Michael Vaughan slammed former Pakistan opener Salman Butt, after the latter questioned his remarks on New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson and Indian captain Virat Kohli, Tribune reported
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided not to press charges under its anti-corruption code against any of the participants featuring in a documentary broadcast by Al Jazeera that alleged two Test matches featuring India had been ‘fixed’
The life of a person belonging to the LGBTQ community is becoming difficult in Pakistan amid COVID-19 pandemic spread in the Islamic country
Pakistani actor Veena Malik is facing trolls on Twitter and other social media platforms after she posted an anti-Semitic tweet 'quoting' Adolf Hitler
Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan took to social media to inform that he had donated oxygen concentrators to Gurugram Police as a part of his efforts to "serve my people in this pandemic"
Well known Pakistani TV host and actor Fahad Mustafa has donated Rs 2 million for the life-saving surgery of a three-year-old Hindu boy, Dipesh, according to a Dawn report
DhakaYeah, a platform created by a group of anonymous illustrators, won the Alliance Française Pakistan - People's Choice Award for their work The Break
The ICC World Test Championship finalists India, New Zealand remain the top two teams in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s Test Team Rankings after the annual update
Sabre Fencer Bhavani Devi, who created history by becoming the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympic Games, said she was looking forward to giving off her best performance in Tokyo2020
