Actress Bhumi Pednekar, who is gearing up for the release of her upcoming film "Toilet: Ek Prem Katha", says that its time for us to change and evolve as a society.


Time for us to evolve as a society, says Bhumi Pednekar


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The Ministries of Water Resources and Skill Development are joining hands to develop skilled manpower for the Namami Gange project, an official release said on Friday.


Skill, Water Resources Ministries to join hands for Namami Gange


Photos have emerged of a lioness nursing a baby leopard, a first of a kind sighting deemed as an extremely rare event, the media reported on Friday.


Lioness nurses leopard cub in Tanzania


The unique and traditional "Ker Puja" of the tribals will begin in Tripura on Friday night for the well-being of the people and to ward off evil spirits.


Tribals' unique, traditional 'Ker Puja' to begin in Tripura


Around 4.4 billion people lack safely managed sanitation and around 2.1 billion lack access to safe, readily available water at home, a new report by the WHO and Unicef has revealed.


'More than 4bn people worldwide lack safe water, sanitation'


A six-member team of Afghan schoolgirls has been finally granted US visas to participate in a global robotics competition, a media report said on Thursday.


Afghan team gets US visa for global robotics competition


A Japanese tech company on Thursday launched a device that allows people to self-test their sweaty exteriors for three categories of smell, the media reported.


Japanese device alerts people when they stink


An Australian cattle worker whose thumb was severed by a bull has had his toe surgically transplanted in its position, the media reported on Thursday.


Australian man's thumb surgically replaced by toe


Higher sea levels due to climate change will flood hundreds of US cities including New York, Boston, San Francisco and Miami, in the next 20, 50 or 80 years, according to a study.


Higher seas to flood US cities: Study


Heroin use in Australia's Melbourne city have hit a 20-year high due to the plummeting price of the drug, it was revealed on Thursday.


Heroin use in Australian city hits 20-year high


Wearing a blood-stained white pyjama and drenched in rain, a a Noida villager on Wednesday recalled the horror of watching the fatal shooting of his young son by four men a day ago and rued police inaction on their earlier complaints.


They shot my son as I looked on: Noida villager


The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday approved the final master plan for state's capital city Amaravati.


Andhra CM approves final master plan of capital city


Following the killing of a 25-year-old man in Salarpur village of Noida, local residents demanding police action on Wednesday morning blocked the main road intersecting the area.


Villagers block road in Noida after man's killing


In a heart-wrenching incident, a middle-aged woman believed to be in her late-forties, was rescued on Tuesday after nearly 15 years from a locked room of her maternal house in North Goa's Candolim village.


Woman rescued from locked room after 15 years in Goa


Veteran actress Ratna Pathak Shah, who will soon be seen in the film "Lipstick Under My Burkha", says the patriarchal structure anywhere in the world is hard not just on women but on men too.


Patriarchy is hard on women and men: Ratna Pathak Shah


China's car population rose to 205 million with the registration of 9.38 million new cars in the first half of 2017, the Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday.


China has 205 million cars


Apollo Hospitals, in association with with Godrej's Hit spray, on Tuesday launched India's first online "platelet donor community" for patients suffering from dengue.


Apollo launches platelet donor community for dengue patients


US researchers found that cannibalism is a new way to stop the spread of disease and it may be an understudied factor in disease control, according to a statement by the Louisiana State University (LSU).


US researchers find way to stop disease spread


Two foreign nationals who last month underwent surgeries for removal of Desmoid Tumour, a tumour which spreads aggressively, are recuperating in a city hospital here.


Two foreigners get new lease of life at city hospital


A day after Ahmedabad became India's first World Heritage City, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi urged the Centre and the Telangana government to secure a similar tag for Hyderabad.


Owaisi calls for world heritage city tag to Hyderabad


Two doctors were suspended on Monday for denying an ambulance to ferry the dead body of a man in Jharkhand's Chatra district.

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