Two persons of Indian origin were among 891 Australians recognised by Queen Elizabeth II in her birthday honours list for 2017 for their contribution to the community.


2 Indian-origin men in Queen's birthday honours list


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While some of their counterparts were pelting stones to vent their anger at security forces in Kashmir, 40 IIT aspirants from the troubled valley were quietly undergoing coaching with the Indian Army during the months of unrest in pursuit of their dreams of studying technology at the premier engineering schools in India.


Nine Army-trained Kashmir students crack IIT exam


Three women who have given birth to 10 children each have been honoured and awarded by a Manipuri group worried over the decreasing Meitei population.


Three Manipuri mothers with 10 children honoured


Commuters look out in surprise from windows of cars and buses. Some passersby occasionally stop to click pictures. The subject of their interest is a man who literally makes managing busy traffic on a bustling east Kolkata road a song and a dance.


Kolkata's dancing cop who makes people smile 


Myanmar is striving to enlist Bagan, a famous ancient city with thousands of religious edifices and pagodas, as a World Cultural Heritage site.


Myanmar strives to enlist ancient city as cultural heritage


A new programme is introducing people in some shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro to yoga, teaching residents of some of Brazil's poorest areas how to deal with the stress caused by the constant violence around them.


Brazil's stressed out shantytown dwellers to do yoga


India added 450 million people over the 25 years to 2016, a period during which the proportion of people living in poverty fell by half. This period of rising prosperity has been marked by a "dual-disease burden", a continuing rise in communicable diseases and a spurt in non-communicable or "lifestyle" diseases, which accounted for half of all deaths in 2015, up from 42 per cent in 2001-03.


India's great healthcare challenge - and opportunity


A four-month-old Pakistani boy suffering from a serious heart ailment will get a fresh lease of life as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj offered him a medical visa on humanitarian grounds.


Sushma Swaraj comes to aid of Pakistani boy with heart ailment


Odisha's 12-year-old Padmalaya Nanda, who has won the Little Miss Universe 2017 beauty pageant, says that she wishes to promote her culture across the world.


Little Miss Universe wants to promote Odia culture


Dubais Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has started colouring parts of the city roads in an eye-catching asphalt red to alert people to changes in speed limits.


Dubai roads 'turn red' to indicate speed limits


An Ontario man who invented the Hawaiian pizza, a style of pizza known for its inclusion of pineapple and ham, has died at the age of 83, leaving a legacy that has delighted, confused and appalled diners worldwide, the media reported.


Hawaiian pizza inventor dies


As many as 89 per cent of pickpockets operating on Delhi Metro trains and stations are women and they mostly strike in crowded stations, suggests data compiled by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).


89% pickpockets in Delhi Metro are women: CISF


Days after a Delhi University student was arrested and his juvenile accomplice detained for lynching an e-rickshaw driver near a metro station, police have arrested a third youth in the case.


Third youth arrested for lynching e-rickshaw driver


Bihar's poor Class 12 results this year have been shocking. Only 30 per cent of those who took the Science exam passed -- thanks largely to hundreds of schools functioning without science teachers and laboratories remaining locked up for years.


State of Bihar's schools - few science teachers, locked up labs


A panchayat in Bihar has ordered an 11-year-old rape victim not to file a complaint with the police and instead asked her to wait till she is 18, as the accused has confessed his crime and will marry her, police on Friday said.


Don't approach police: Bihar panchayat tells 11-year-old rape victim


West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has extended her stay in this hill town following the violence and arson by Gorkhaland activists, on Friday walked along Mall Road here to enquire about the welfare of thousands of stranded tourists and arrangements made for their transport.


Mamata reaches out to stranded tourists in Darjeeling


Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay has hired a specialist team of Brexit negotiators to tackle rising food costs at his restaurant empire, the media reported on Friday.


Gordon Ramsay hires Brexit negotiators to tackle rising costs


British billionaire Richard Branson presented a petition to the UN General Assembly (UNGA), urging governments to protect at least 30 per cent of oceans by 2030.


UK billionaire presents petition to protect oceans


Labour Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday clarified that there was "no stay" by the Delhi High Court on the minimum wages order and it was "very much in place" and had been implemented in 201 departments of the government.


No stay on Delhi government's minimum wages order: Gopal Rai


Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in Solan in Himachal Pradesh to provide free LPG connections to BPL households.


Dharmendra Pradhan launches Ujjwala scheme in Himachal


Around 4,000 Indian students appeared for interviews on Thursday to secure the American visa to pursue higher education in the US, brushing aside fears of hate crimes in that country.

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