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Delhi court summons arvind Kejriwal

Delhi’s Patiala House court on Saturday directed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear before it next month in a criminal defamation case by DDCA...

Pregnancy invites discrimination for many women employees

Many women applying for maternity leave have to often face “discrimination” in the companies employing them. Anita (name changed) learnt this reality the hard...

One-teacher schools on the decline, but funding remains a problem

The number of one-teacher schools in the country has decreased marginally, but lack of focused funding for development of one-teacher schools remains a bottleneck.According...

Woman candidate delivers baby during poll heat

An inspiring story has emerged from Maharashtra’s Pune district. Rupali Patil, 34, a candidate of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, has given birth to a healthy...

Sena will talk to BJP on future of Maha govt

Uddhav Thackeray will meet Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to talk about the future of the alliance government in Maharashtra. Talking to The Sunday...

Mumbai is a battleground between Shiv Sena and BJP

Elections to the Mumbai municipal corporation, the country’s richest municipal body, will be held next week. But as campaigning is slated to come to...

Is NATO stepping up to the mark?

The International Institute for Strategic Studies’ (IISS) annual assessment revealed that only three of NATO’s member nations met the 2% of GDP defence-spending target...

Best place to savour Chinese flavours

YAUATCHA Level 2, Ambience Mall, Vasant kunj New DelhiMeal for two: INR 1500+taxes per guest i.e. INR 3000+taxes for two If you are craving for...

Surajkund Mela exhibits the trends of Jharkhand

Each year Surajkund Indian Crafts Mela celebrates the Indian folk traditions and cultural heritage of India. As it celebrates the richness and diversity of...

When stars chose to dress up in the most bizarre outfits

CeeLo GreenCeeLo Green attended the 59th Grammy Awards at Staples Center, Los Angeles. Green was seen transformed into anthropomorphized Ferrero Rocher. Dramatically decked up,...

F-Pace is Jaguar’s entry into the high-octane SUV world

Jaguar is almost a 100-year-old company. They began by making sidecars, moved on developing bodies for passenger cars. And all this while they just...

Nupay is the new way of transacting money digitally

Envisage this scenario. A team of three  banking consultants, all having cushy jobs and leading a normal life. Suddenly one of them comes up...

Mobile apps to help students prep themselves for exams

The board examinations to be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education are almost here in Delhi, and they have created an air...

Special event for the visually challenged

The India Eye International Human Rights Observer (IHRO) is holding a special event “Anhad” for the visually challenged on 25 February at the India...

World musicians who created history and won hearts at this year’s Grammys

The Grammys is a special night, known the world over for its glamorous display and also for the occasion that celebrates the work of...

Raza’s colourful tributes to Gandhi will soon be exhibited

It is no secret that Syed Haider Raza (who lived between India and France) had great admiration for Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings and beliefs. He, in...

Internationally exhibited South Asian art has its homecoming at Delhi show

As you step inside gallery 24 Jor Bagh, you hear reverberating sounds. Owing to the deep and echoing nature of sounds, it seems that...

Meet the game-changers

On the smartphone screen, I see two-dimensional toy blocks, pink in colour, against a cerulean background, and I hear the comforting notes of a...

Affordable housing gets infrastructure status in Budget

To boost the slowdown-hit real estate sector, the government on Wednesday announced an infrastructure status for the affordable housing sector to encourage investment in...

Rs one lakh crore for railway safety fund: Arun Jaitley

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday announced creation of a Railway Safety Fund of Rs one lakh crore over a period of five...

Arun Jaitley presents a balanced budget with selective sops

Broadly delivering on the government’s underlying promise to reduce the pain of demonetisation, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s budget on Wednesday did deliver something or...

Major push in credit for farmers announced

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday here announced Rs 10 lakh crore for agriculture credit for the current fiscal year.Special efforts will be made...

BJP will win over 300 seats in Uttar Pradesh: Pankaj Singh

Pankaj Singh, son of Home Minister Rajnath Singh, is ready to make his electoral debut from Noida. In an interview with The Sunday Guardian,...

Rescued Bangladeshi woman sent home

A 38-year-old Bangladeshi woman, who was rescued by the West Bengal police about two years ago, was sent back home due to the collective...

Noida seems to be going BJP’s way

A sizeable crowd of enthusiastic supporters chanted “Pankaj Singh zindabad, Rajnath Singh zindabaad” as the cavalcade of the Union Home Minister’s son, who is...

Muslims torn between SP-Congress and BSP

Only a few days away from voting, Ghaziabad, known as the gateway of Uttar Pradesh, is buzzing with election fever, but Muslims don’t seem...

Holiday on Hari Singh’s birthday creates row in Kashmir

The opposition Congress and the National Conference have locked horns in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly with the ruling PDP and BJP after the...

Snowfall brings life to a standstill

A fifth spell of snow in Kashmir has brought life to a standstill with people protesting the administration’s failure to clear blocked roads and...

Avalanches wreak havoc on Armymen, villagers in J&K

Five armymen got trapped when a snow track caved in in the Machil sector of Kupwara in North Kashmir, police said. Later, the Army...

Optimum healthcare in India requires 60% of private cost

Observing that the cost of private healthcare is prohibitively expensive for a majority of India’s population, medical experts have opined that optimal healthcare can...

Markets expect lower STT from the Budget

Like any other common man, Indian stock (capital) markets are also expecting taxation relief from the budget, especially the ones that help to strengthen...

‘Budget needs to focus on consumption revival’

The budget to be presented on 1 February is being awaited by individuals and industries alike to see lower taxation on their incomes which...

Most states lag in implementation of Real Estate Act

Most of the states are lagging in implementing the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA), 2016, and have not set up state level...

Train travel claims over 60 lives a year

Over 60 people lose their lives every year while travelling on the coaches of Indian trains, according to information supplied by Indian Railways in...

‘All Pashtuns want freedom from Pak’

To fight militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan had started Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan (predominantly Pashtun) which had become a...

How fiction enriched the living world of technology

In the history of our world, one of the most significant shakeups has been the scientific revolution. It had begun to gain ground as...

Bought by Western clubs, these Indian footballers played in the big league

The Indian Super League brought with it the opportunity of soccer as a profession for many talented Indian football players. Even though there have...

Doomed lives: The thinking man on the battlefront

Soldiers’ voices: glory and sadnessIf I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever...

‘We want to connect the next billion with the digital world’

Q. With so many new tech launches and innovations taking place, where do you see the industry headed over the next few years?A. Smartphones,...

Between word & image: New Delhi to host its first ever art book fair at IHC

Much to the delight of art- and book- lovers, India’s first ever Art Book Fair was announced at Jaipur Literature Festival 2017 last week....

‘Literary translations promote social harmony’

A prolific Rajasthani writer, Aidan Singh Bhati has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award twice. Once in 2006, for a work of translation (Gandhiji...

I joined advertising because nobody pays you to write poetry: Prasoon Joshi

Lyricist, screenwriter, poet and an advertising person, Prasoon Joshi, who is also a Padma Shri awardee, speaks to Guardian 20 along the sidelines of...

Bheel painters win Ojas Art Award

The Ojas Art Award, instituted by Ojas Art Gallery, was awarded this year to a couple of Bheel artists from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh at...

Drawing a line between cricket and showbiz

People who have seen Bishan Singh Bedi coaching Ranji players on the cricket field, know something of his imposing, rather intimidating presence. And his...

Jayant Mahapatra wins Kanhaiya Lal Sethia prize for poetry

This year's Kanhaiya Lal Sethia Poetry Prize was awarded to the veteran poet Jayant Mahapatra at a ceremony held here at the Jaipur Literature...

‘Language is like a flowing river’

Padma Shri awardee and veteran journalist, Mrinal Pande served as an editor of a major Hindi daily until 2009. She was also appointed as...

‘To me, freedom means self-awareness’

Q. You primarily write on gender and feminism. Is your book related to similar subjects?A. The central protagonist of 31 miles, Mansa, symbolises the...

Women characters in Indian cinema today are drawn from real life: Javed Akhtar

On Sunday evening, at the JLF session titled "After the Angry Young Man, the Traditional Woman, What?" Javed Akhtar talked about the gradual shift...

Sunil Khilnani on the idea and idols of India

The past, as someone once said, is a foreign country. And the historian's job is to familiarise us with that alien landscape, to give...

Is this novel literary enough?

Literature is rarely the topic of enquiry and debate at literary events. The focus usually falls on books of social, political or even economic...

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