Fifth reservoir coming up at Thervoy Kandigai
A vast expanse of land at Thervoy Kandigai, where cattle graze now, will soon become the fifth reservoir to meet the drinking water needs of the Chennai city. A little distance from the Sip...
A vast expanse of land at Thervoy Kandigai, where cattle graze now, will soon become the fifth reservoir to meet the drinking water needs of the Chennai city. A little distance from the Sip...
A team of advocates, including two government pleaders, has been formed by the Tamil Nadu to secure bail for woodcutters jailed in Andhra Pradesh prisons. The State government on Tuesday issued an...
Jennifer Lawrence is not worried about being called a “brat” if it is used to explain her assertive behaviour. The 25-year-old, who is an advocate for equal rights for women in the film in...
English rock band The Rolling Stones are planning to start work on their new album in April next year. Lead guitarist of the band, Keith Richards said he has had “a little chat” with the b...
About 600 people, representing 140 tribes from 58 countries, are participating in India’s first indigenous Terra Madre in Shillong that began on Tuesday
Rickshaw pullers, newspaper wallahs, job aspirants, and struggling artists dig into the famous Kalyani, or beef, biryani in Hyderabad, which is not meat but food, a cheap source of protein.
The recent Vienna meetings of regional powers with the U.S. and Russia have opened up a new diplomatic initiative in the Syrian conflict that has left the country broken.
The “gathering interrogation” of the government by civil society represents a widely-shared critique of the regime which speaks to a larger current of discomfort against the politics of the right and the rampant cultures of violence perpetrated by it.
Russian and U.S. air forces held a joint training exercise in Syria on Tuesday meant to prevent dangerous encounters between their aircraft, Russia’s defence ministry said. A U.S. military o...
Moderates urge caution as tension continues at Birganj on the border
The United Nations has called upon Bangladesh authorities to “fully investigate” the killing of a publisher.Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman of the U.N. Secretary General, said at the UN headqu...
Ahmed Chalabi, the smooth-talking Iraqi politician who pushed Washington to invade Iraq in 2003 with discredited information on Saddam Hussein’s military capabilities, died on Tuesday of an appare...
A Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday that Moscow does not consider it a matter of principle that Syrian President Bashar Assad should stay in power, stepping back from its previo...
The PIL petition has exposed the government's lukewarm approach to the MGNREGA (“SC takes serious view of job scheme arrears”, Nov.3). The government’s lack of interest in one of the major...
Sania Mirza has certainly emerged as one of the living legends in the international tennis circuit (“And the Sania-Hingis domination is complete”, Nov.2) . At 28, she has also made history...
The author raises urgent issues of concern (“A blast from the colonial past,” Nov.3). The BJP is re-enacting the colonial methodology to suppress viewpoints that do not support its social...
I couldn't agree more with every word in the article (“Portent of religious autocracy,” Nov. 3). The recent developments in India are enough for the outside world to look at India as a barbaric so...
Thirteen members of the Islamic State group and 10 civilians killed in at least 16 air raids.
The United States and its allies conducted 15 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and seven in Syria on Tuesday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement. The strike...
If the government has committed to maintain the constitutional integrity of the President’s office, then it is obligated to respond to Pranab Mukherjee’s speeches.
Taliban militants have stoned a woman to death over charges of eloping and adultery in Afghanistan's Ghor province, authorities said on Tuesday. Footage of the stoning showed sco...
A stateless child is born every 10 minutes, notably as a consequence of armed conflict, the United Nations refugee agency has said in its latest report. Ø In countries hosting the 20 lar...
There is a dangerous game of perceptions being played between India and Nepal, and the