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Village that won PM Modi’s heart, leads in social welfare

Gangadevipally, a tiny village 20 km from Warangal city in Telangana, is today the destination for rural development experts and administrators after it was...

India working on 6,000 km rail link to Turkey

India is actively working with Asian countries to establish a railway network, starting from Dhaka (Bangladesh) to Istanbul (Turkey), covering eight countries, which is...

Craze for engineering decreases, 48% seats vacant

The craze of engineering is slowly declining, with 48% of the total engineering seats across the country staying vacant. According to the latest information...

Gujarat polls may be brought forward

The BJP is mulling over the option of bringing forward the Assembly elections of Gujarat, scheduled for December this year.There has not been any...

PM will inaugurate Asia’s longest tunnel

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Nashri-Chenani tunnel on 2 April. The tunnel will open the national highway between Srinagar and Jammu. It...

J&K denies land was transferred to Baba Ramdev

The Jammu and Kashmir government has denied media reports that they have transferred 160 kanals of industrial land at Vijaypur in Sambha district of...

Parents fret in Kashmir as unknown viral grips children

Thousands of children in Kashmir are suffering from an unknown infection with symptoms such as cough, fever, chills, sore throat, headache etc. Although officials...

Centre okays Assembly seat-hike in Telugu states

The BJP-led NDA government at the Centre has finally agreed to increase the number of seats in the Assemblies of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh...

Adventure Zone completes 5,0000 bungy jumps

Jumpin Heights, India’s First Extreme Adventure Zone and India’s Highest Bungy Jumping Platform successfully completed 50, 000 Bungy Jumps. To mark this success, a...

FIFA expresses concern over Kochi’s readiness

With less than 200 days left for the under-17 football World Cup, which is to be held in India, there are ‘deep concerns’ over...

The best smartphones that come and go in a flash sale

This is that time of the year when flash sales start doing rounds in all popular e-commerce websites, and consumers are waiting to grab...

ShopClues and its new buyer protection plan

India’s first and largest online marketplace, ShopClues with over 5,00,000 merchants and over 2.5crore SKUs launched a unique premium service — the Shopclues Surety...

Tattoo artists become professionals as getting inked turns into a lifestyle

It’s now more of a lifestyle than just form of art,” saysVikas Malani about tattoos in a conversation with Guardian 20. He co-founded the...

Documentary on leprosy looks at ways to eradicate the disease

In order to break down the stigma attached with leprosy and to spread awareness of it, NDTV Prime recently screened a documentary on the subject in...

Book Review: ‘Adversity breeds success and is perhaps the best friend in one’s life’

The Last Inning and BeyondU.D. Choubey and Smriti RajvardhiniMarshall PublicationsPages: 254Price: Rs 390The Last Inning and Beyond is a fictionalised account of the life...

‘Polish music has a specific kind of lyricism and beauty’

Polish vocalist and composer Anna Maria Jopek recently performed in India at the Holi Moo Festival, a cultural even recently organised around the festival of...

Noted maestros to perform at Shriram Shankarlal music fest

It’s that time of the year once again when legendary musical maestros are slated to perform at one of India’s oldest music festivals — Shriram...

No man’s land: Tales of displacement and exile at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

The third edition of the Kochi Biennale is drawing to a close — the curtains go down on 29 March. This year’s event, as usual,...

Manoj Bajpayee: A character sketch

Q. There are few actors in Indian cinema today who have the kind of the diversity to their acting resume as you do. You’re...

Bahubali 2’s trailer is a big hit on the Internet

“Bahubali-2” the Conclusion’s theatrical trailer release in four languages—Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam—has become a big on Internet with around 1.5 crore hits on...

‘Hiking minimum wages will only burden the industry, traders’

Hiking minimum wages alone cannot address the myriad problems faced by the unorganised sector, which employs 87% of the India’s workforce, experts told The...

Medal shortage forces Defence Ministry to order duplicates

The Ministry of Defence is facing a shortage of more than 16 lakh service medals in the Armed Forces, which are to be given...

Maha residents give wish list for budget

From turning the recently decommissioned Indian warship INS Viraat into a warfare museum to granting scholarships to meritorious students of debt-ridden farmers and from...

Chandu Chavan returns to his ancestral home

The ashes of his beloved grandmother being immersed in river Godavari, considered holy by the Hindus, Chandu Chavan finds peace in his ancestral house...

BJP will have to wait a year for RS majority

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will have to wait for one year to increase its numbers effectively in the Rajya Sabha.As many as 10...

‘Trivendra Rawat is a hard working, honest man’

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Trivendra Singh Rawat who was sworn in as Uttarakhand’s new Chief Minister on Saturday is said to have an “honest...

Bihar government mixes up caste data

In a major goof up, the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government has “mixed up” Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) data of at least 2,500...

‘Muslims should open their minds to PM Modi’

Haseeb Siddiqui is the general manager of the Muslim Fund Trust, Deoband, which is a financial institution that works on a interest-free loan module...

Hindus are in majority in Deoband

For long, the demographic character of Deoband has been assumed to be dominated by the Muslim community because of the presence of the Darul...

‘Triple talaq was not a poll issue’

Amid a pile of bright unstitched clothes, customers’ deadlines and a range of sewing paraphernalia, women workers at “Tehzeeb Creations”—a women’s boutique within a...

There is more to Shashank Manohar’s resignation

Even though Shahshank Manohar maintained that his stepping down as independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), had nothing to do with the...

Small traders still wary of embracing GST

Despite the government’s best intentions to roll out GST tentatively by 1 July, stakeholders do not seem prepared to embrace the new indirect tax...

Rupee likely to be Rs 65/$ till French presidential polls

The rupee, which strengthened handsomely by over 2.5% after the BJP’s emphatic victory in Uttar Pradesh, is still holding the fort (at Rs 65...

India ‘digitally ready’, says UCWeb founder

Chinese E-Commerce giant Alibaba Group’s UCWeb — a leading user-generated content ecosystem in India — has announced the launch of a self-creating content platform...

Health apps: One click a day can keep your doctor at bay

It’s tough to keep track of your health, especially if you have a hectic work schedule. Nowadays, no one has time to go to...

Indian singer Akasa, who features in a Ricky Martin song, speaks music with Guardian 20

Akasa Singh, from Mumbai, has burst onto the global scene as a singer. But, her beginnings are all about the arduous journey, which all...

Adrenalin rush: Immersive mountain biking trip from Siliguri to Gangtok

Have you ever wished to experience an offbeat adventure but didn’t have the backbone to venture out for it? Well, even though I have...

‘Singing in Schola is a privilege for students at Yale University’

The Yale Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the 16th century to the present day in concert settings and choral...

Goa’s Serendipity Arts Festival travels to New Delhi this year

After eight days of cultural extravaganza in Goa last December, Serendipity Arts Festival is all set for its Delhi edition, bringing a rare mix...

From the ‘happiest place on earth’ to the dismal wasteland of urban slums

California-based artist Jeffrey Gillette hates Disneyland. That “thick syrupy feeling of trying too hard” to be “the Happiest Place on Earth” put him off....

Britain, India will cooperate with each other to build aircraft carriers: British Navy Chief

Admiral Sir Philip Jones, First Sea Lord of the British Navy, was in India on special invitation by the Indian Navy to attend the...

Several Kashmiri families are migrating to Jammu

Kashmir is witnessing a steady migration of residents to Jammu in search of security and livelihood, as the valley continues to reel from the...

Cong rebels win on BJP tickets in Uttarakhand

Giving tickets to former Congress leaders played in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday as the party secured 56 out of...

BJP springs a surprise by winning ‘Muslim seats’

One of the biggest surprises of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections was the BJP’s good performance in Assembly constituencies with 30-50% of Muslim votes,...

UP CM will implement PM’s policies, vision

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to pick a Chief Minister for Uttar Pradesh, who will be able to implement Prime Minister Narendra...

Number of women giving birth in healthcare institutes doubles in a decade

A huge transformation has taken place in the number of women delivering their newborns in an “institutionalised place”, rather than in a domestic setting....

MHA does not have a definition of ‘sedition’

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) does not have any details of war criminals, terrorists and anti-nationals. There is also no proper definition of...