Новости за 05.12.2015

Over the past two decades, charges and allegations have flown thick and fast over a thriving criminal-political nexus in Maharashtra.

News leads to panic in the NCR region, with many people cancelling their weekend plans and staying home.

Bajrang Dal to observe Babri anniversary as ‘valour day’.

Palliative care is not about caring for the terminally ill, but the patient’s well-being...

While mega cities experiment with radical measures to deal with crippling air pollution, many people are beginning to change their exercise routines

Dr. Bhavna Chawla, a surgeon, recently returned from her first mission with MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) in Lankien, South Sudan. In this letter, she recounts her experience of delivering emergency surgical care in a conflict situation.

There are many reasons why the possibility of the end of printed books keeps me up at nights, but the most important of them concerns retail.

Manish Tewari I am reading Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove by Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri. I started this after finishing Path of Blood: The story of Al Qaeda’s War on the House of Saud by Th...

I think, often, feminism in India becomes an elite thing, but here I wanted to show how an ordinary person, who has certain impulses, is able to balance that with this kind of tradition that she is steeped in but also respects.

Informed sources confirmed that India felt that a transparency and accountability regime should not treat rich and poor nations alike.

Not too long ago, public opinion was against philanthropy. A new book explains how attitudes have changed, and why we must scrutinise them.

Appreciates India’s support for the Palestinian cause; Says the international community deals with Israel as a state above law .

Unruly elements try to make political capital out of relief work; Army teams say they have become directionless, are requested to rescue relatives of VIPs at the cost of common people; Two more naval ships from Visakhapatnam arrive with relief and rescue material and seven lakh litres of water; Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces Rs. 2 lakh to the kin of those killed in the floods in Tamil Nadu.

For some years now, the best way to get free publicity for a literature festival in India was either to invite Salman Rushdie or pretend that he would be attending. The media love controversy-in-a...

The relief has been announced from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund for the next of kin of those who lost their lives in the floods

Swedish authors Martin Widmark and Katarina Genar talk about working on Duckbill’s new book, “The Sherlock Connection”, a collaboration with two Indian authors, Anushka Ravishankar and Bikram Ghosh

Vikram Rai Medhi on finding a window for the North East designers in the Capital

Christmas is relevant for all for its message and the bonhomie it generates

Akshara Theatre brings alive the making of Mahatma through “Barrister At Law”, the landmark work of Khwaja Ahmed Abbas

Marie Dias Arora’s works explore the intricacies of nature

The Samajwadi Party will face a tough battle against a resurgent Bahujan Samaj Party and an aggressive BJP in the 2017 UP Assembly elections

Taking strong exception to film star Kamal Haasan’s reported criticism of AIADMK’s flood relief activities, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O. Panneerselvam on Saturday charged the actor of becoming a...

The Indians were slow to get off the blocks as they hardly troubled the Belgian defence in the first two quarters.

If you are used to completing half-marathons and are aiming to go the whole hog at the Mumbai Marathon on January 17, here is a crash course for you. This is the first of a six-part series

Nearly 70 underground fires have been raging beneath the Jharia coalfields for a century now, engulfing the thickly populated areas in and around Dhanbad district, Jharkhand. With 23 large underground mines and nine open cast mines, Jharia is India’s largest coal producer. Text and photos: Sindhuja