Actor and comedian Kal Penn has come out as gay and has also stated that he is engaged to his partner Josh. The couple has been together for 11 years and is planning on a grand wedding soon.
Penn, known for his role portraying Lawrence Kutner on the hit television program House, as well as the character Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar film series, shared his story during an interview with CBS Sunday Morning programme on which he was promoting his new memoir, “You Can’t Be Serious”
Did you know that Kattuyanam is the oldest rice variety in the world? It is over 2,400 years old. The red rice variety’s name is a combination of two words — Kattu or Kadu which means forest and Yanai meaning elephant. The plant can grow up to seven feet tall, and even an elephant can hide in the crops.
It is rich in antioxidants, controls blood sugar, is good for skin and normalises bowel movement. Around 150 such indigenous rice varieties were on display at the Rice Mela organised by Thanal Trust, an environment NGO and Organic Bazar at Jawahar Nagar.
This website aims to make the process of getting permission to film across railways premises more efficient.
In a first, to ease the process of shooting a film on trains or at railway stations, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s Film Facilitation Office (FFO) and the Ministry of Railways have collaborated to create a ‘single window filming mechanism’.
This website aims to make the process of getting permission to film across railways premises more efficient.
The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) got registered in the Guinness Book of World Records on the first day of the Ganga Utsav — the River Festival 2021 for the highest number of photos of handwritten notes uploaded on Facebook in an hour.
Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat posted his message on the Ganga on Facebook, after which the Guinness activity was opened for the public at large.
The Texas-India vaccine diplomacy, a collaboration for shared global health between Indian pharmaceutical company Biological E and the Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, has led to the development of a cost-efficient vaccine against COVID-19 for USD 1.50 per dose, according to a top American scientist.
Addressing the annual 2021 gala of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston (IACCGH) on Saturday, Dr Peter Hotez, Dean National School of Tropical Medicine; professor of pediatrics, molecular virology and molecular biology, at Baylor College of Medicine, said the collaboration has led to the development of the low-cost people’s vaccine in record times.
Singer and Bharat Ratna awardee Lata Mangeshkar, Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman and sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik have given their backing to the nationwide talent competitions meant to celebrate the 75th year of Independence.
On Sunday, the three celebrities digitally introduced the competitions announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his ‘Mann ki Baat’ address a week ago, saying that the “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav must be filled with colours of art, culture, songs and music.”
Sliced strawberries in various shades of pink sit symmetrically on the base of strawberry sloffen, a Dutch cake-like cookie with almond paste and topped with buttercream, fresh strawberry and vanilla glaze. Boterkoek, butter cake, is another Dutch confection that Sarah Lisa, who with her husband Vibin Varghese, runs Zera Noya, a Dutch Bakery out of their home in Kadavanthra.
Commodore Deepak Kumar has taken over as the Commanding Officer of INS Venduruthy and Station Commander, Kochi Area.
He is the 45th Commanding Officer of the 77-year-old establishment that provides administrative support to Naval units in and around Kochi.
Story of Chapal Bhaduri who played jatra’s leading lady for decades.
Prabha Devi died and Chapal Rani was born. But I shall come to that later. This is the story of the last of the great female impersonators on stage.
A doyen of the Bengali folk theatre form of jatra, Chapal Bhaduri, or Chapal Rani, ruled the stage between 1958 and 1974.
He played Anjana in Raja Debidas, Amita in Sesh Arati and Iravati in Maharaja Parikshit.
Dubbed the Finland of Haryana, the back-woodsy village of Bangaon is the new javelin hub of the country. Behind its emergence are a physical education teacher, an academy on a chicken farm and a group of motivated teenagers.