Kerala Tourism Minister AP Anil Kumar on Wednesday said that all stakeholders would be taken into confidence regarding the operations of seaplane service in the state's picturesque backwaters.

The US and Cuba will discuss this week the possibility of re-establishing direct mail, suspended 50 years ago, a State Department spokesperson said on Monday.

Actress Manisha Koirala, who has successfully battled ovarian cancer, maintained a vibrant and cheerful demeanour as she stepped out for a public function in New York recently.

India Post on Tuesday announced starting logistic services in association with Air India at 15 airports in India. The service will be at 15 linking airports, Agartala, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Nagpur, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Imphal, Guwahati, Patna, Lucknow & Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram), an official statement said.

Sam Pitroda, adviser to Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations, on Saturday expressed confidence that the country will regain the growth rate of 8 percent soon.

Rajasthan's fast emerging industrial region in Alwar - Ghilot industrial area - with a dedicated zone for South Korean companies and a second Japanese zone close to Neemrana, would open soon.

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday slammed the Centre's decision to discontinue the 160-year-old telegram service from July 15. The party termed the move as first step towards weakening the postal department and demanded that it be restored.

The Opposition BJP in Rajasthan on Friday held demonstrations across the state demanding rollback of hike in power tariff.

Congress leaders in Mumbai and Maharashtra welcomed the appointment of MP Gurudas Kamat as party general secretary and in-charge of Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Researchers have claimed that literacy has a greater impact on public health in India than income. The researchers from Cambridge's Department of Sociology, accepted that it is mostly true that "wealthier is healthier" across the roughly 500 districts in India's 'major states,' accounting for 95 percent of the total population, but found that poverty and, more crucially, illiteracy are much stronger indicators of poor public health than low average income.