Ramanand Sagars popular TV serial ”Ramayan” which is re-airing on Doordarshan became the world”s most-watched show on April 16 with 7.7 crore viewers, DD India posted on its official Twitter handle on late Thursday night. ”Ramayan” is being telecast again since March 28 on public demand. In fact, when it was telecast for the first time, the serial had broken all records of popularity, and the show has repeated its history again. Ramanand Sagar had made a total of 78 episodes of this serial based on Valmiki”s Ramayana and Tulsidas” Ramcharitmanas . For the first time in the country, the…
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In view of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, India should impose sanctions on Pakistan for perpetrating cross-border terrorism in Kashmir and other parts of the country. This policy recommendation has been made by one of India’s top foreign policy think tanks, Gateway House based in Mumbai. Established in 2009 by Manjeet Kripalani, ”Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations”, engages India’s leading corporations, thinkers and scholars on international relations. The think tank has recommended that the government should sanction Indian stakeholders and corporations that have a presence in Pakistan or that have a business relationship with Pakistan entities. This and…
Legendary footballer Chuni Goswami passed away in Kolkata after a prolonged illness. As a successful player, Chuni Goswami led India to the 1962 Asian Games gold. Chuni Goswami was the most successful Indian football captain ever and under his captaincy, India won the gold medal in 1962 Asian Games, finished runners-up in 1964 Asian Cup, and narrowly lost to what was then Burma in Merdeka football six months later. The iconic sportsperson, who also played first-class cricket for Bengal, was 82 and breathed his last at a hospital here. He is survived by his wife Basanti and son Sudipto. “He…
People of Odisha’s Ganjam district have been advised to use the ubiquitous umbrella as a tool for maintaining social distancing, besides beating the heat. Ganjam district Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange shared a cartoon picture in a twitter post, showing how a brolly enforces a distance of around 1.5 metres between two persons and thereby helps check the spread of coronavirus infection. “I thought that an umbrella automatically creates social distancing for the user. If one uses an umbrella, it will automatically create a distance of 1.5 metres from another person. This apart, use of umbrella will also help beat the…
As the Central government allowed home isolation of COVID-19 patients, the city government on Thursday followed suit and issued an SOP for the positive coronavirus cases having very mild symptoms or those who are in a pre-symptomatic phase. In an order, the Delhi Directorate General Of Health Services said the competent authority has approved home isolation of laboratory confirmed cases of very mild/pre-symptomatic cases of COVID-19. The SOP for the facilitation of home isolation was also issued. The first Criteria for Home Isolation is that the person should be clinically assigned as a very mild case or pre-symptomatic case by…
The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Wednesday sent a fourth notice to Maulana Saad, the main accused in the Tablighi Jamaat case, asking when he would join the investigation. Along with the notice to Jamaat chief Maulana Saad, the team led by DCP Joy Tirkey of the Crime Branch investigating the case, also have some new questions for Saad and his colleagues. According to Crime Branch sources, “Most of these new questions are related to the raid on Maulana Saad”s farmhouse in Kandhla in UP.” The Crime Branch team did not get anything significant in that raid. The Delhi Police…
Hundreds of Indians stranded in Japan due to lockdown, have appealed the External Affairs Ministry to take notice of them as they are facing unprecedented mental distress in a foreign land amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The recent Japanese advisory of tsunami and earthquake have only aggravated their worries. Kamal Vijayvergiya, a Jaipur-based exporter of tea and herbal products who is stranded in Tokyo, sent a video. Vijayvergiya said he was on a four-day business visit of Japan on March 18. “Now, I am not able to return due to lockdown. It’s more frightening situation here than other nations. The number…
Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has asked the “Hand of God” to deliver the world from the coronavirus pandemic and allow normal life to resume. The World Cup winner referred to his hand-assisted goal in the 1986 World Cup after Argentine football chiefs voted to end the current season as well as suspend relegation, saving Maradona-managed bottom club Gimnasia from the drop. “Today this happened to us and many people say it is a new Hand of God,” said Maradona, alluding to his infamous goal against England. “But today I’m asking for that hand to end this pandemic so people…
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza on Thursday became the first Indian to be nominated for the Fed Cup Heart Award from the Asia/Oceania zone along with Indonesia’s Priska Medelyn Nugrorho. Sania had recently made a comeback to Fed Cup after four years. With her 18-month son Izhaan present in the stands, Sania had helped India qualify for the Play-offs for the first time. “Stepping on to the court for the first time in India colours was a moment of pride for me, back in 2003. It has been an eighteen year long journey since then and I feel extremely proud…
Coaches involved with the senior and junior teams, including India head coach Ravi Shastri, are making productive use of staying at home by having online interactions “for exchange of ideas”. National Cricket Academy (NCA) head Rahul Dravid is the man behind the idea. The senior team support staff comprising Shastri, bowling Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar were part of one such interaction, last week. The online session was also attended by junior and NCA coaches including Paras Mhambrey, Narendra Hirwani, Abhay Sharma and Sitanshu Kotak. “It wasn’t an online coaching class. You can say it was an interaction…