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J&K sex scandal back in focus with Mir’s return

The resurrection of Ghulam Ahmed Mir as Tourism Minister in the Omar Abdullah government has brought back the focus on the 2006 sex scandal...

HP MLA arrest punctures Congress’ comfort cushion

The arrest of a Congress MLA in Himachal Pradesh in connection with the alleged murder of his "girlfriend", has pushed a divided ruling party...

Pak’s Qadri talks to India through CDs, DVDs

Dr Tahirul Qadri, the Islamic scholar of Sufi mould, who was seeking the removal of the PPP government in Pakistan this week has a...

Punjab teacher visits Pak to retrace village’s bloody past

A retired teacher in Punjab, while retracing his village's past, located the families that had migrated to that country in 1947 and expressed his...

Delhi HC stops demolition of Swamy’s house

An attempt by the government to demolish the Delhi residence of Subramanian Swamy, who has exposed corruption scams, has been prevented by the Delhi...

NGO working to preserve culture in poor villages

Almost every family in Hariharpur village in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh has a musician. Nearby Nizamabad village is famous for pottery made of black...

Thousands turn up for Infinite Light contest

The first round of an all India contest on a biography of the Prophet Muhammad was held on Tuesday in different cities across the...

LoC fence, forward posts damaged by snow

Two Army jawans died of charcoal smoke in their bunker in Nowgam sector near the Line of Control on Friday. They had lit the...

CBI Scare Made soren ditch BJP

Pressure applied through the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) forced the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) to sever its ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party...

Chautalas’ family first politics in dire straits

With the arrest of the supremo of the main Opposition party of Haryana, Indian National Lok Dal, Om Prakash Chautala and his heir-apparent son...

Mayawati tries to retain Dalit vote bank

BSP president Mayawati has decided to cut out on extravagance and return to her political roots. Her 57th birthday celebrations in Lucknow and Delhi...

Muslim NGOs vow not to support Cong-NCP

The Federation of Minorities NGOs, an umbrella body comprising Muslim organisations, has vowed not to back the Congress, NCP in Maharashtra, and vote for...

Sukhbir visits Lavasa to study city’s growth

Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal visited Lavasa near Pune, to get a first hand view of the city's development last week. The visit...

Telugu titles mandatory for Telugu films

Bachelors 2, Businessman, Bodyguard, SMS and Love Failure are some of the titles of Telugu movies that were released in 2012. Of the total...

Five-star for English press causes heartburn among Shivir journalists

The Congress party ferried around 300 journalists in three buses to Jaipur. They were told that they would be put up at the five-star...

Check out the posters, It’s Rahul’s coronation in Jaipur

The Congress Chintan Shivir, presently in progress at Jaipur's Birla auditorium, is a coronation of the heir apparent of the party, Rahul Gandhi, for...

Kiran lobbies against Telangana

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has warned the Congress high command of large scale defections by party MLAs if the Centre...

Bomb in jawan’s body was meant to blow up copter

A group of heavily armed Maoists are holding their ground in and around Amwatikar, a remote village in Jharkhand's Latehar district. It was here...

Sharp wires, electric fencing only way to stop infiltrators

The government has sanctioned 2043.63 km of fencing along the 3,323 km long India-Pakistan border (including the Line of Control) in order to reduce...

‘Pak attacked during change of command’

The 8 January beheading of an Indian soldier and the mutilation of another at the Line of Control (LoC) took place soon after a...

Valley worried tension may hit tourism

People in the Kashmir Valley are worried that any conflict like situation along the India Pakistan border will hurt trade and tourism adversely. In...

‘Beheading of jawans is India’s domestic issue’

Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Salman Bashir threw another provocation by terming the beheading of Indian Army soldier Lance Naik Hemraj as India's domestic...

Indian students are avoiding UK colleges

Indian students are shying away from going to the UK for under-graduate and post-graduate courses. Data published by the US based Higher Education Statistics...

Power cuts cause 10% loss in factory outputs

Over 60% of Indian companies have witnessed more than 10% of production loss because of shortage of power in the country; 12% of them...

Sagem delivers for French army

Sagem (Safran) delivered the first 150 JIM LR 2 multifunction long-range infrared binoculars to the French army, on 5 December 2012. This was in...

RBI under Finance Ministry’s pressure to cut rates

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is under pressure from both, the Ministry of Finance, as well as the Indian industry to cut repo...

Tahawuur Rana will appeal against terror sentence

Tahawuur Hussain Rana, the associate of David Coleman Headley, will appeal his "conviction", Rana's senior attorney Patrick Blegan stated in Chicago. On Thursday, the...

Christie’s minted £3.9bn in 2012

For millions, 2012 was a bleak year financially. As Europe and America remained mired in recession, families cut down their living expenses cut out...

Pakistan Women’s World Cup ties shifted to Cuttack

After a lot of deliberation, the Pakistani women cricket team's World Cup matches were shifted to Odisha, bringing an end to the uncertainty over...

Death row convict wanted @** kissed

Even the hardest criminal has been known to quake when led to America's notorious electric chairs. But asked what his last words were moments...

75? quit dieting

Dieting after the age of 75 is unlikely to make any difference to our health. The Daily Mail reports that scientists from Penn State,...

Chiselled body? that’s gay, says Malaysia

If you are a man who works out at the gym, then Malaysia is not the country for you, at least not if you...

The Peter Pan Complex: Is Children’s Literature Finally Coming of Age?

Writing for children demands the best and the freshest of a writer's imagination, backed by a high degree of editorial skill. The listed books...

Music Review: Best of the Unknown

The news that HMV is going into administration has sparked off another wave of articles and debates about the impending death of the record...

Music Review: Musical Narrative

James Jackson Toth or Wooden Wand is quite the understated icon, with a stated exuberance in his music. 'Blood Oaths of the New Blues'...

Pictorial notes from a chronicler’s diary

At the beginning of Camera Lucida, Barthes writes about death as the eidos, not – at this point – of the Photograph, but specifically...

Not just landscapes from India’s first modernist

It has always been Gopal Ghose's landscapes that have attracted the spotlight – characterised by vivid hues, experimental lines and suffused with a sense...

Morality & its limits: Gandhi in the 21st Century

Q. How do you understand Gandhi's politics? Why would you call it moral politics?A. I called Gandhi's politics "moral politics" because a) he entered...

Guru-shishya spirit will keep Ravi Shankar with us

The ICCR organised an evening, featuring prominent names, to pay tribute to the sitar legend, Pandit Ravi Shankar last Wednesday. The homage to the...

On Afghanistan, the Jaipur Lit Fest, criticism and the odd literary rumble

Ambrose Bierce, legendary satirist and one of the pioneers of the American short story, once said, "God alone knows the future, but only a...

Book Review: For the revolutionary poet, pain begets poem begets pain

"What does one call those words?Words that walk like sighs"— Lal Singh Dil'Words that walk like sighs' is as apt a description of Lal...

Koshy’s tics & the inexact science of parenting

Absentee parents and the phantoms of long-lost, missing or unborn children are poignant themes in modern fiction, be it Ian McEwan's The Child in...

The inevitable burden of memory

For Erszebet Lowe, an art curator in London, summers no longer evoke pleasant memories, for they are forever tainted by her first ever visit...

A real-life horror story from Pakistan

Ever since Mukhtaran Bibi (now called Mukhtar Mai) wrote a memoir about surviving a gang rape and fighting for justice, there has been a...

Book Review: Amidst the snowy peaks, the unmistakeable echoes of 9/11

Uzma Aslam Khan's Thinner Than Skin, recently longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, falls in the growing category of fiction that is broadly...

Moore and Bolland set gold standard for the Dark Knight

Batman: The Killing Joke (1988)Writer: Alan MooreArtist: Brian BollandThe idea of a one-shot overshadowing the ongoing canonical comics for a character, let alone a...

Puppet-kathakali gets capital audience

Efforts to revive the art of Pavakathakkali span over two decades, and last week, six puppeteers performed in Delhi at the IGNCA. Pavakathakalli can...

Celebrating creativity through light-bending exercises

It was in 1949, when a meeting between photographer Gjon Mili and Pablo Picasso in the South of France, resulted in the phenomenal images...

A fond message for Prudence

Dear Prudence is a song written by John Lennon and was released by the Beatles as the second track on their 1968 double-disc album...

Expect the unexpected at improvised comedy acts

It's a cold, foggy evening in December, and Lure Switch in Lado Sarai is just turning abuzz with guests pouring in for some weekend...

Goodbye to Ambassador Garcetti, and good riddance

Tight security deployment in UP’s Sambhal

Modi’s PRAGATI’s nine-year impact: From delayed projects to accelerated development

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