If anger could melt ice, Mount Everest would be standing bare and brown today — so angry are the people of Nepal with India. The four-month-old blockade of its border with India has pushed the ers...
A Maharashtra cadre IPS officer has been booked for allegedly raping a UPSC aspirant on pretext of marriage, the police said on Saturday. According to a complaint filed by the Jabalpur-based victim...
A meeting of the BJP-RSS co-ordination team will be meeting in Delhi in the second week of January. Top sources in the BJP confirmed that the meeting would take place “in the weekend of the second we...
China on Saturday welcomed the surprise meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, in Lahore, saying improvement in India-Pakistan ties is significant f...
The former Prime Minister had dreamt of bringing India and Pakistan closer.
Political dynamics in Punjab is changing fast with the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) poaching leaders from each other ahead of the Assembly elections slated for 2017.On Saturday morning, t...
Mayur Patel (22) who sustained bullet injuries during the Patel quota agitation in August, died on Friday after battling for life for four months. His funeral procession in his native Mehsana town on...
Migrant workers who went to Kuwait on visit and kalivilli (illegal) visas from the north Telangana districts of Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Medak and Adilabad are reportedly languishing in jails in that c...
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh on Saturday inaugurated ‘Saifai Mahotsav’, a cultural festival held every year in his native village in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh.The 17-day event, which wil...
Today's Weekend Reading stories: M.G.Vassanji writes on East African Asian society and how Indians lived in the multicultural society, a list of books to know the year that was, shelf help and 'the book in my hand.'
East African Asian society was complex and contradictory as any truly multicultural society needs to be, and perhaps as only Indians can make it
Seeing off 2015 with recap of conscience calls, mystifying ‘sequels’, bewildering trends, wartime histories and dazzling fiction
The meaning of it all Though scientists have proclaimed that animals are as conscious as we are, it can be safely assumed only human beings are full of the yearning to decipher the meaning of life.
Navtej Sarna I wanted to read some Russian literature this year. So I read some plays by Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons, and I am slowly going through Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Th...
Today's Weekend Being Stories: Neuroscience and the juvenile legislation, Secret sauce of Star Warslies deep in your brain, 5 Things about the implications of the successful return of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and more...
5 Things about the success, strategy and the implications of the successful return of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to earth
It isn’t the light sabres, the intergalactic shuttle chases or Yoda’s wisdom that draws everyone to the cinemas... it’s that primitive sentiment called nostalgia
A new Christmas tradition may make sense… There is some precedent for this
Scientific evidence suggests that the parts of the brain responsible for impulse control, decision-making, judgment and emotions, and crucial when fixing culpability in case of juvenile delinquency, keep developing into the twenties.
Private Member’s Bill introduced in Upper House to address addictive properties of modern devices
Economic slowdown in Brazil, Russia and China may boost India’s economy
Incomplete wells are one of the reasons why oil price recovery is nowhere in sight
The Indian Patent Office has put in abeyance new guidelines on examination of computer-related inventions (CRIs) such as software programmes. After the guidelines amending relevant provisions were ...
Oil money no longer pays the bills here. The governor, facing a profound fiscal crisis, has proposed the imposition of a personal income tax for the first time in 35 years. State lawmakers, who re...
From abroad, international brands such as Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), Gap and Aeropostale kicked off their India journey
