The week-long celebrations for the 70th National Cadet Corps (NCC) Day kicked off with a "Run for Fun" marathon in the state capital on Sunday.


70th NCC Day celebrations kicks off in Lucknow


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Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has fulfilled a promise he made to help manual scavengers by arranging machines.


Big B buys machines for manual scavengers


About 30 people, including 15 women and 8 minors, drowned to death on Saturday when a private bus they were travelling in plunged into a river canal in Karnataka's Mandya district, police said.


30 killed as bus plunges into canal in Karnataka


Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday requested Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda for the continuation of treatment of Jaga and Balia twins at AIIMS, New Delhi.


Odisha CM seeks continuation of treatment of conjoined twins at AIIMS


A 60-member team comprising superstars Mammootty , Mohanlal and others of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) will perform in Abu Dhabi on December 7 to raise funds for the Kerala Chief Minister's Disaster Relief Fund (CMDRF), an official said.


Mammootty, Mohanlal in 60-member team to perform in Abu Dhabi on Dec 7


A new US government report has delivered a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impact, saying that the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century.


Climate change could cost US hundreds of billions of dollars annually


Targeting a very niche segment - the kids rooms - the decorative paint division of Nippon Paint (India) has come out with a special paint that contributes to a child's wellness, a senior official said on Saturday.


Nippon Paint launches kids range


Mumbai's Chabad House in the Nariman House Colaba, one of the bloody targets of the 26/11 terror strikes, will be renamed as 'Nariman Light House' on the 10th anniversary of the attacks and 10 months after Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit, official sources said on Friday.


On 26/11 eve, Chabad House to be rechristened 'Nariman Light House'


Kolkata still remains a "great city" that hasn't lost its heart of culture and among whose people there is "some kind of discipline", says P. Thankappan Nair, its 86-year-old barefoot chronicler who has left the eastern metropolis after a 63-year-long association with the city. His legacy will be the 62 books he penned on the city and the 2,000 he purchased over the years and which he has donated to the Town Hall library.


Kolkata a great city, hasn't lost its culture, says its barefoot chronicler


A local court on Thursday admitted a petition filed by a Brahmin organization against Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey who was recently shown holding a placard reading "Smash Brahminical Patriarchy."


Court admits petition by Brahmin body against Twitter CEO


Words like pashmina, dal, chutney and pyjamas form part of a list of 70 Indian origin words included in the Oxford English Dictionary unveiled by the British Council here on Thursday as part of its 70th anniversary in India.


British Council lists 70 Indian-origin words


The city got its second batch of 25 low-floor buses under the 'Gurugaman' scheme that will ply on the roads from Friday, an official said on Thursday.


Gurugram gets more low-floor buses under 'Gurugaman' scheme


Running through history, the British-era Kalka-Shimla railway track will now take tourists to the "glorious" past for capturing the moments.


Selfie with past on Himachal's British-era rail track


Indian-American businessman Shalabh "Shalli" Kumar will host a Hollywood Thanksgiving dinner for Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bhansali.


Indian-American businessman to host Thanksgiving party for Sanjay Leela Bhansali


Over 230 skeletons have been found in a mass grave discovered earlier this year in Sri Lanka's Mannar town that has turned out to be the country's biggest such site.


230 skeletons found in Sri Lanka's largest mass grave


The Pentagon has sent more than 300,000 pounds of Thanksgiving food to US military troops stationed overseas and at the US southern border, the Defence Logistics Agency has announced.


Pentagon sends 300,000 pounds of Thanksgiving food to troops


It was a night to remember for the newly-wed Bollywood couple Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh as celebrities, and sports stars gathered at a star hotel here to wish them.


Celebs flock to Deepika, Ranveer's gala reception in Bengaluru


Sonepur cattle fair, considered as Asia's largest such event, began in Bihar on Wednesday with hundreds of people from rural areas thronging the fair to enjoy the unique flavour of an age-old tradition.


Sonepur cattle fair begins in Bihar


Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be donating 50 machines to aid sewer workers and stop them from entering the pit that dehumanises their existence.


Big B to aid sewer workers by donating 50 machines


An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity has said.


85,000 Yemeni kids dead from malnutrition: Charity


Having Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar together in a 'Koffee With Karan' style tete-a-tete was "too tempting" an opportunity for filmmaker Karan Johar let go at the opening ceremony of the 49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

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