Australia's heat wave dragged into its sixth day on Friday, with roads melting and heat records broken.


Roads melting as Australian heat wave drags on


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Japanese officials have said that a piece of graffiti found at a monorail station in Tokyo could be the work of British anonymous artist Banksy, the media reported on Friday.


Graffiti in Tokyo could be Banksy artwork


Witness the unbreakable bond of two girls whose ambition beats patriarchy and poverty; live through a true big fat Bollywood romance; tread through the lanes of Kathmandu as a young girl seeks love and her own space in life, and finally, explore how an 'Orange' sanyaasi life feels like through the eyes of a child abandoned by the mother.


Of friendship, love, search for life and abandonment (IANS Books This Weekend)


The families of the trapped miners inside an illegal 370-ft flooded coal mine in Meghalaya on Thursday said they want the "dead bodies" of the miners to be taken out as per the Supreme Court order even as Navy divers captured pictures of a body inside the flooded mine.


Navy divers detect body in Meghalaya mine, families want bodies out


Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday inaugurate the National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) that has come up in a 19th century heritage bungalow and a modern building in the country's film capital, an official said here on Thursday.


PM to unveil national film museum in Mumbai


It is the beginning of another year and the time when most of us make a resolution that we would like to achieve for both physical and emotional well-being. As a mother, it is natural to want the best for your little one. There is nothing more important than ensuring overall wellness for both you and your little one. This New Year, celebrate motherhood with a few simple tips thatll help you adopt a safe and gentle skin care regimen.


This New Year, make the right skin care choices for you and your baby (Health Notes)


If you are suffering from diabetes, then following some lifestyle and health factors may prove to be good for your heart and can help prevent disorders, says a new study.


Heart-health behaviour helps reduce diabetes risk


An Indonesian woman has been mauled to death by a crocodile in Sulawesi after she fell into its enclosure, officials said.


Indonesian woman mauled to death by crocodile


An elephant was shot dead by the suspected poacher and took away the tusk in Jharkhand's Palamau district.


Elephants killed, tusk missing in Jharkhand


Two nursing students, arrested after being allegedly seen in a video mercilessly beating puppies to death in a state-run medical college and hospital, were granted bail on Wednesday by a local court.


Two nursing students arrested for killing puppies get bail


The Meghalaya Cabinet on Wednesday discussed the ongoing rescue operations to trace the 15 miners, who are trapped inside an illegal flooded coal mine for more than a month now.


Trapped coal miners: Meghalaya rescue ops continue


Helping Hand Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has come forward to support the Government Nizamia General Hospital, which was built by the last Nizam of Hyderabad, to promote Unani medicine.


NGO comes forward to help Hyderabad's 80-year-old hospital


The sounds of silence in tiny picturesque hamlets currently marooned in a thick blanket of snow overlooking this Himachal Pradesh tourist resort can be heard loud and clear.


Silence prevails in Manali hamlets to appease gods


A Chinese man who sold his kidney as a teenager to buy the latest Apple iPad and iPhone in 2011 is now bedridden with organ failure, the media reported.


Man bedridden after selling kidney to buy iPhone, iPad


YouTube videos that depict dangerous or emotionally distressing "pranks" have been banned from the platform.


YouTube bans dangerous, harmful pranks


Search engine giant Google on Tuesday celebrated the birth anniversary of Sake Dean Mahomed who was the first Indian author to publish a book in English and later, to open an Indian restaurant in Britain.


Google Doodle celebrates Anglo-Indian entrepreneur Sake Dean Mahomed


Thousands of devotees took a holy dip here at the Sangam -- the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati rivers -- on Tuesday morning, on the auspicious occasion of Makar Sankranti and marking the onset of the Kumbh Mela.


Devotees take holy dip on Makar Sankranti as Kumbh Mela opens


The mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, a well-known critic of his country's right-wing government, died on Monday, one day after he was stabbed by a man who rushed on stage during an open-air charity event.


Polish mayor Pawel Adamowicz dies in stabbing attack


Veteran filmmaker and chairman of Kerala State Film Development Corporation Lenin Rajendran passed away on Monday at a private hospital in Chennai, said a Kerala Minister.


Veteran Malayalam film director Lenin Rajendran dead


The Central government on Monday notified the 10 per cent quota amendment in its official gazette, bringing reservation to the economically weak section among upper castes formally in action.


Upper caste quota comes into force


The new law providing 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker general category people in education and government jobs was "unwanted" and it could achieve "close to nothing" former Chief Economic Adviser to the Union finance ministry, Kaushik Basu, said here on Monday.

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