A Group Of Painters Wants To Turn Strife-Torn Kabul To The World's Graffiti...
Aqela is hunting for a job again. Women like Aqela in Kabul usually earn a living by working as daily wage labourers, cleaning homes and offices, doing laundry for people, washing dishes. Clad in her...
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India's Climate Promises Hang On Solar Push
India's commitment do its bit to limit global warming implies an unprecedented fillip to solar power, but also raises key questions about how speedily can the government move to arrange the mammoth...
View ArticleCBI Grills Mayawati For Likely Role In Multi Crore Rural Health Scam
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has been questioned by the CBI for her alleged involvement in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam after the agency claimed to have got...
View Article'Revival' Plan Of Congress Includes Recalling 81-Year-Old Buta Singh
Buta Singh was a well-established veteran in the Congress and eased out after swirling corruption allegations that involved family members. And yet, the Congress re-inducts him.
View ArticleIndia's Sugar Export Plans May Be An Epic Fail
India's bid to compel producers to export millions of tonnes of surplus sugar will fail without significant subsidies or at least penalties for failing to comply, trade and industry sources told...
View ArticleDadri Lynching Incident Blame Has To Fall Entirely On Modi: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Contributing editor to The Indian Express and President, Centre For Policy Research, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, excoriates BJP MP Tarun Vijay on the editorial pages of the paper and laments that the MP's...
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Squeamish Government Moots Restricting Condom Ads To 'Late Night Hours'
First the government came for pornography and the brouhaha caused it to backtrack. Now, the Telegraph finds that the Centre is examining a proposal to confine television ads for condoms to late-night...
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Delhi CM Kejriwal Stopped From Entering Fractious Dadri Village
Delhi CM, Arvind Kejriwal claimed to be waylaid by Uttar Pradesh's police and administration and prevented from entering Bisada village in Dadri when he and his AAP colleagues went to visit Mohammad...
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Gold Makes Year's Biggest One Day Comeback
Snapping its five-day falling streak, gold rebounded by Rs 660, its biggest one-day surge this year, to trade at Rs 26,810 per ten grams at the bullion market today. The precious metal, after five...
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Dadri Lynching: Local BJP Leader's Son, UP Homeguards Constable Reportedly...
The son of a local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and an Uttar Pradesh Homeguards constable were reportedly arrested by the police for their alleged complicity in the grisly lynching of a Muslim...
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Japanese Man Shot Dead In Bangladesh, ISIS Claims Responsibility
DHAKA — A 66-year-old Japanese man, known for philanthropic work, was today shot dead by the Islamic State militants in Bangladesh, the second foreigner to be gunned down in a week after an Italian aid...
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Now, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma Says Intention Of The Mob 'Was Not To Lynch'
Of all the different voices that were raised after the brutal lynching of a middleaged Muslim villager and his 22-year-old son by a prdominantly Hindu mob at the Bisara village in Uttar Pradesh, the...
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Indrani Mukherjea Remains Critical As Mystery Deepens Over Suspected Drug...
Even as Indrani Mukherjea, the main accused in the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora, continued to remain in a "deep state of slumber", conflicting forensic reports added mystery to the 43-year-old's...
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WATCH: At 60, Kamal Haasan Appears In His First Ever TV Ad, For A Good Cause
Veteran Indian actor Kamal Haasan has appeared in his first ever TV commercial at the age of 60. The multifaceted Tamil star, known for films such as Nayakan, Moondram Pirai, Indian and Hey Ram, has...
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WATCH: Farida Khanum Singing 'Aaj Jane Ki Zid Na Karo' For Coke Studio Is...
Not for nothing is classical singer Farida Khanum called the Malika-e-Ghazal (empress of ghazal). On Coke Studio, Khanum performed a melifluous rendition of the popular ghazal Aaj Jane Ki Zid Na Karo,...
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Shashank Manohar Unanimously Elected BCCI President
MUMBAI — Lawyer-turned-administrator Shashank Manohar was on Sunday elected unopposed as the BCCI President ushering in a new era in the Cricket Board and ending N Srinivasan's clout in the cash-rich...
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PHOTOS: All The Dissenting Sahitya Akademi Awardees And Their Prize-Winning...
After authors Uday Prakash and Nayantara Sahgal set the precedent, younger writers such as Aman Sethi and Mandakranta Sen too have returned their Sahitya Akademi awards. On Monday, Booker Prize winner...
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PHOTOS: These Are India's Deadliest Snakes
India's tropical conditions play the perfect host to a wide variety of snakes -- approximately 300 species, including 50 venomous varieties. Recently, eminent naturalist and wildlife adventurer Nigel...
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Nawazuddin Siddiqui Shares A Special Chemistry With Anurag Kashyap
NEW DELHI -- He has worked with industry's top most directors but Nawazuddin Siddiqui says it is Anurag Kashyap with whom he shares a special chemistry as the filmmaker shocks the actor in him every...
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Bigg Boss Season 1-8: All The Controversies And Cat Fights
Bigg Boss has become the baap of all controversial reality shows on Indian television. Ever since the telecast of its first episode, this show has always grabbed viewers not only for the versatality of...
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