Awards  

This year's Padma Shri awardee Salumarada Thimmakka who is known as the Vriksa Mata has planted 8000 trees. Except for numerous awards and felicitations, she has nothing to live.

Narthaki Nataraj, a renowned dancer from Tamil Nadu, is now the first person from the transgender community to be honoured with the Padma Shri. She has trained under Tanjore Shri K P Kittappa Pillai.

The nominees for the 91st annual Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California. 

A film on menstruation, set in rural India, titled Period. End of Sentence , has earned a nomination in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 91st Academy Awards.

Virat Kohli was the unanimous choice of the Voting Academy for the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy with South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada coming in second to him for both this award and the ICC Test Player of the Year award. Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan was runner up to Kohli for the ICC ODI Player of the Year award

The 37-year-old singer, Alicia Keys announced her social media channels with a behind-the-scenes video.

Rahul Gandhi highlighted only Republic TV and Patanjali as the sponsors of the World Marketing Summit awards ceremony to suggest that the award was given by organisations that are pro-Modi. What Rahul conveniently overlooked was that there were a host of other sponsors

Many devotees have said that the CPI(M), under the leadership of Pinarayi Vijayan, has been bulldozing its way into the Lord’s abode. Some have even demanded the resignation of the Kerala chief minister following the Sabarimala fiasco.