Power supply companies continue to remain a burden on state finances

New Delhi: Electricity distribution companies (DISCOMs) continue...

Trade plays key role in India-Kuwait relations: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the first...

HINDUISM: The enemy within

Walking on the banks of the Ganga,...

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Lower fuel prices result in economic benefits

It is the worst of times for the oil industry. The price of crude has dropped close to 70% in a matter of months...

‘Window to book rail tickets must be halved’

As Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu gets ready to give final shape to the Railway Budget, which will be presented in Parliament on 26 February,...

DMK agrees to poll alliance in TN: Congress

Senior Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday formally announced that the Congress would fight...

‘Mr Headley’ sips coffee during deposition

On the first day of the deposition of David Coleman Headley before a Mumbai court this week, all those present rose soon after Special...

HC seeks J&K stand on screening test

The J&K High Court has asked the state government to clear its stand on holding a screening test for Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers, as they...

PDP, BJP all set to revive their alliance

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the BJP state leadership have discussed in detail all the important aspects of the “agenda of alliance” which...

Scarcity of treated drinking water in J&K

Amid an outbreak of water-borne diseases in different areas of Kashmir Valley, a recent survey by NITI Aayog has nailed the state government for...

Prashant Kishor gets AICC nod for Punjab

Prashant Kishor, who enjoys the reputation of being a successful strategist for elections, will now be assisting Punjab Congress in the Assembly elections due...

All’s not well, but SAD-BJP break-up unlikely

With less than a year left for the Punjab Assembly elections, the chiefs of the two ruling alliance partners — Shiromani Akali Dal and...

Not all cybercriminals are seasoned hackers

Unlike popular belief, most of the accused arrested for financial frauds through “phone phishing” and ATM theft by the Noida Cyber Cell are tech-savvy,...

Hebbal bypolls a key test for Siddaramaiah

Voters in Hebbal, a bustling Bangalore suburb, turned up in huge numbers on Saturday to exercise their franchise in the bypoll to Hebbal Assembly...

MoD approves commissioning of upgraded Tejas jets

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has approved the commissioning of 106 locally produced and upgraded Tejas Mark 1A Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) to replace...

Mumbai to witness huge business deals, multi-million investments

Mumbai is set to witness huge business deals and multi-million investments in key sectors during the Make In India Week which was inaugurated by...

Digital India initiative will boost digital advertising market

The government’s Digital India initiative is set to boost the size of India’s nascent digital advertisement market, currently pegged at Rs 6,200 crore. The...

Uncertainty over bad loans rattles markets

Growing uncertainty about the quantum of bad loans that plagues India’s public sector banks (PSBs) rocked the stock markets on Thursday with Sensex, the...

JNU teachers support students

The teaching community in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has come out in support of students protesting against the Delhi police’s crackdown in the...

Report on DDA flats is in cold storage

The Tejinder Khanna Committee Report on illegal and additional constructions in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) flats and encroachments on government land is in...

‘Steps being taken to tackle gang rivalries’

The district of South-West Delhi (SWD) in the national capital is infamous for its gang rivalries. While questions have been raised about the efficiency...

Khudai Khidmatgaars educate about Islam via telephone helpline

The Khudai Khidmatgaars (servants of God), members of a movement originally launched to fight the British Raj, have taken it upon themselves to educate...

Women get caught in the loopholes of Muslim law

Muslim women have long been a victim of the loopholes in the marriage laws within the Sharia. The Sunday Guardian spoke to a few...

Netaji files: Half truths, untruths and cover-ups by Congress

January 23 comes and goes. Every year. But only a handful of people, except in certain parts of the country, concern themselves with the...

Elon Musk snaps at ISRO’s heels

Satellite carrier SpaceX, which successfully test launched and landed its reusable Falcon 9 rocket in December has caused much concern to the Indian Space...

‘Many schools of thought in Islam recognise the validity of arbitrary triple talaq’

Last week, when a prominent Muslim outfit, Jamiat Ulema Hind asserted before the Supreme Court that Muslim laws flowed from the Quran and thus...

‘The country cannot have parallel judicial systems catering to communal demands’

Raziuddin Aquil, who teaches history at the University of Delhi and has written books like Sufism, Culture, and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval...

The Debate is about Status quo and reforms

The old debate about Muslim personal laws has resurfaced, with some voices calling for reforms, and others seeking that these stay unchanged. At the...

Youth vocal against Muslim Personal Law Board

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board, a non-government organisation, which articulates the personal laws of Muslims in India, and often gets embroiled in...

Website of the week: Fashion wear from desk to dinner

PostFold, an online men’s and women’s apparel brand, is trying to be that solution for fashion that young professionals were looking for — one...

Gadget Review: It’s a throwback to the Polaroid era

Fujifilm instax mini 70Price: Rs 11,500Before we could take pictures of anything and everything at all times, there was the Polaroid camera. Although it...

Apps that help you plan Valentine’s Day in a jiffy

Let’s start with the basics. It takes two to tango on Valentine’s. So, if you don’t have a date yet this popular mobile matchmaking...

Movie Review: The triumphant arrival of the anti-superhero 

 DeadpoolDirector: Tim MillerStarring:  Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J Miller Deadpool has been touted to be the movie that changes the superhero genre. And it almost...

Movie Review: He Never Died is an existential comedy of the blackest sort

As a film buff, you’re always lying in wait for that one film that comes along each year — and it is usually just...

‘My love for dance comes from growing up in ’80s’

Writer and director Duane Adler, who rose to fame after his film Step Up, was trying to create a romantic sunset scene on the...

Book Review: The oppressive nature of the world’s oldest profession

 River of Flesh and Other Stories: The Prostituted Woman in Indian Short FictionEdited by Ruchira GuptaSpeaking TigerPages: 256Price: Rs 350As per Ruchira Gupta’s introduction,...

Remembering Fazli: A poet of pain whose words will live on forever

Perhaps when reality of life bites you, the essence of poetry dawns on you: kabhi kisi ko mukammal jahan nahin milta, kahin zameen to kahin...

LeT was planning to assassinate Bal Thackeray, says David Headley

Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley said in a deposition on Friday before Special TADA Court Judge G.A. Sanap in Mumbai that he had recced...

Siachen Lance Naik passes away

Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad, who survived for six days under tonnes of snow at the Siachen Glacier, lost his battle for life on Thursday...

Delhi High Court dismisses plea for probe in DDCA case

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea filed by former Indian cricketers Kirti Azad and Bishan Singh Bedi demanding a court-monitored investigation by the...

UK wants to study India’s Yemen evacuation model

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is so impressed with India’s humanitarian rescue operation conducted in Yemen last year that it wants to...

Women’s only temples aplenty

As the issue of banning the entry of women to Shani Shignapur, Sabarimala and other temples keeps raging, no spotlight is shed on those...

Cellular operators will ask DoT to defer spectrum auction

The Cellular Operators Association of India will write to the DoT next week, requesting to defer spectrum auctions for the 700 Mhz band arguing...

The ‘jugaad’ that saved India’s face

Nearly two months ago, the crew of Indian submarine INS Sindhudhvaj received the CNS Best Innovation Trophy for an unusual innovation. The famous Indian...

In a first, Indian Navy displays green power during IFR

Impressing the President, Prime Minister, Defence Minister and the foreign dignitaries, the Indian Navy for the first time displayed its biodiesel-fuelled interceptor crafts during...

‘Asymmetric threats have made global naval partnerships a must’

Focusing on the tremendous challenges posed by asymmetric threats like terrorism and piracy in today’s world, Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral R.K. Dhowan said...

Fleet review: 15 years later, a sea change in India’s international image

In what can be seen as a symbol of a quantum leap for the Indian Navy, the second International Fleet Review organised by the...

Kapu quota poses threat to Naidu government

The large scale arson and destruction at Tuni, a major commercial town in the mainly agrarian East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh on 31...

Ex-IAS officers roped in to run J&K

Jammu and Kashmir Governor Narinder Nath Vohra has appointed Pervez Dewan and Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, both former IAS officers, as his advisors to run...

‘Preserve relevant orders of Dogra rule’

The state Information Commission has directed the Jammu and Kashmir government to preserve old government orders/records of the Dogra Maharajas’ era after identifying their...

Tourists will be jailed for visiting J&K with liquor

In a development of its kind, the Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered a ban on visitors, including tourists, entering the state with liquor....

KCR will reward son for winning civic body elections

Following the TRS’ clean sweep in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections, in which Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s son K.T. Rama...

BJP, TDP, Congress unite against Owaisi’s goons

Archrivals Congress and the BJP-TDP combine would be leading a joint delegation to President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath...

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