New Delhi: Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and top scientist CNR Rao will be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s biggest civilian award, the Prime Minister’s Office announced minutes after a moist-eyed Sachin retired from international cricket on Saturday afternoon. “I dedicate this award to my mother,” the man called the God of Cricket said. Sachin had […]

New Delhi: In a significant move, the government of India made changes in the eligibility criteria for a person getting the Bharat Ratna. According to media reports, this move will pave way for Sachin Tendulkar to get the country’s highest civilian honour. The Prime Minister’s Office has accepted the Ministry of Home Affairs’ recommendation of […]

Mangalore: The local city corporation (MCC) authorities have decided to install an image (a statue) of Dr.B.R Ambedkar in the Town Hall area. Bharat Ratna Ambedkar had got the Constitution of India Bill passed in Lok Sabha in 1950’s. Demands came from several quarters to install his statue near Town Hall. It will be a […]

Pune: Death occurred to Dr. Bhimsen Joshi, Bharat Ratna and world renowned Indian Classical Uttaradi musician, here in Pune at his residence. He was 89, a veteran vocalist, a bhajan singer and a classicist from Karnataka settled in Pune. Pandit Joshi was born in Gadag in 1922. He got trained in Kirana Gharana, under the […]

Mangalore: DK Congress leaders assembled in DKCC office on Friday and offered floral tributes to late PM Indira Gandhi on her 93rd birth anniversary here. She was ‘Bharat Ratna’ in 1971. DKCC Chief B. Ramanath Rai, MLA, Moideen Bawa, Minority leader in DKCC and former Mayor Shashidhar Hegde, paid homage to the greatest woman leader […]

Gadag:  Bharat Ratna Puttaraj Gavia (97), a Hindustani music Guru died of old age on Friday at this Veereshwara Punyashrama at noon. He suffered Pneumonia fever. He was blind all his life. His uncle Chandrashekhar took him to Panchakshari Gavai to learn music at a young age. Young Puttaiappa (later Puttaraj) became adept in Hindustani […]

Bangalore:  He was the first reputed Indian engineer of the world class fame and built the Kannambadi dam, Bhadravthi Iron & Steel Factory, and earned the Bharat Ratna title from govt of India. He came from a poor family and had to labour hard for his education to become a civil engineer, before he overcame […]