We are Fighting for freedom, says Dil Murad Baloch of BNM

‘Our movement continues to progress based on...

Institutions die in a ‘democratic’ Bengal

The state lives in a post-truth era....

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Naidu vacates Hyderabad office eight years before deadline

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has more or less vacated his Hyderabad Secretariat, eight years before the time allowed as per the...

Maha launches skill development programme for Class 10-failures

This year onwards, all those students in Maharashtra who are unable to clear even the re-examination of Standard X, will have a special vocational...

Air Canada introduces fastest Delhi-Vancouver flight

To facilitate growing economic engagements between Canada and India, Air Canada has inaugurated a direct flight between Delhi and Vancouver which would operate thrice...

Better buy gold now since price set to rise

Many commodity experts believe that it is a good time to buy gold as the price of the yellow metal is expected to reach...

Ghaziabad police took over a month to file FIR in ‘murder’ case

It took the family of Aakash Kumar over a month to get an FIR filed after he was found dead on the train tracks...

Municipal unification not happening now

Uncertainty over Delhi’s municipal wards has put on the backburner the issue of unification of three municipal corporations, for which the BJP, which rules...

Rural women promote organic products

To encourage women farmers and entrepreneurs in the country, Ministry of Women and Child Development has for the second consecutive year organised the Women...

Delhi’s homeless will get vocational training

In a novel initiative, the capital’s large homeless population living in night shelters will be imparted education as the Delhi Urban Shelter Independent Board...

SP split wide open as Akhilesh takes on Mulayam

What began as usual family politics, turned into a clash of egos that paved the way for one-upmanship and has finally led to a...

Students want probe in EDI encounter

Aspiring entrepreneurs residing in the hostels of Entrepreneur Development Institute have demanded a probe following a second attack on the EDI building recently in...

J&K govt will arrest 8,000 troublemakers

The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to act tough on protesters, who have been on the streets for over 100 days now, and...

J&K Bank will support women entrepreneurs

Newly appointed chairman of J&K Bank, Parvez Ahmad has announced a number of schemes for women in the J&K Bank to promote and nurture...

QNet scam accused is a Padma Bhushan

Padma Bhushan awardee and former world billiards champion Michael Joseph Ferreira, who was arrested on 19 October by the Hyderabad police in a fraud...

Nitish opens channel of communication with BJP

Fed up” with RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bihar Chief Minister and JDU president Nitish Kumar is said to have opened “channels” with the...

Customers take fancy to efficient electric vehicles

The world of automobiles is changing very rapidly. The global shift towards cars and bikes that run purely on batteries is very evident. A...

Auto sector’s stellar show brings much cheer

The Indian automobile industry produced a total of 13,421,500 vehicles, including passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, three-wheelers, two-wheelers and quadricycles, in April-September 2016, as against...

Festive vroom: The Indian car market is creating quite the buzz this season

We are bang in the middle of the festive season, a time when Indians spend the most. This is also a time when auto...

Hybrid laptops paving the way for a two-in-one future

In our multitasking age, we require devices that not only perform multiple functions at once, but those that have the potential of acting as...

Cosmic light to illuminate the human soul

Prashant Solomon has been a regular contributor to the Speaking Tree — India’s leading spiritual column which is printed everyday in the editorial section...

‘The translator needs to identify with the original work’

Swapna Dutta has been a writer for several decades now, mostly of children’s books, with more than 50 titles to her name, including several...

This Diwali, it’s D-Day for environment campaigners across Delhi & Gurgaon

Air pollution woes in Delhi and other cities refuse to go away. Especially so in the month of October — the month of festivities...

Teaching our kids the benefits and drawbacks of technology

There is little doubt that all of the new technologies, led by the Internet, are shaping the way we think. Social behaviour is defined...

One man’s dream of decoding the silent language of trees

As a child, I was fascinated to know that trees, like us, are living beings. Then, through biology lessons of course, things fell into...

Fusion of styles, cultures & continents at this year’s International Folk Festival

The Jodhpur Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF) was held at the Mehrangarh Fort, in Jodhpur, from 13-17 October. An initiative of the Mehrangarh Museum...

‘Our mission is to make the sarod as popular as the guitar’

Known as the “Sarod Samrat,” Amjad Ali Khan is a legendary figure in the history of Indian classical music. A distinguished maestro, he is...

Many languages of love are explored at the ongoing show in Delhi’s heart

As you walk towards School of Arts and Aesthetics (SAA) department in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), you begin to hear a conversation. It...

Bimstec represents polar opposite of terror promoting polity: Sushma Swaraj

Taking a jibe at Pakistan, Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said that the invitation to member states of the Bimstec group for an...

UAE wooing Indian business community

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) government is wooing the Indian business community to invest in the Hamriyah Free Zone (HFZ), located close to Sharjah.A...

Manufacturing sector starts gaining momentum

Despite sustained weakness in the manufacturing sector as reflected by the recent Index of Industrial Production (IIP) data, many economists feel that industrial activities...

Govt’s deft food management brings down retail inflation

The Narendra Modi government’s efficient food supply management has started showing positive impact as reflected by the sharp decline in retail inflation in the...

CBI may seek lie-detector test in Siwan murder case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to seek a court order to conduct a lie-detection test on the suspects of the murder...

Railways looking for non-fare revenue generation

The Ministry of Railways is looking for non-fare revenue generation options to improve its finances, and hopes that such options will help fetch about...

Sena’s Dasara rally loses its lustre

As Shiv Sena celebrated its 50th Dasara rally at Mumbai’s iconic Shivaji Park this week, the gathering of Shiv Sainiks reflected only a shadow...

Customs department finds foreign currency hidden in food items

Smugglers have always been known to come up with ingenious ways of smuggling various items in and out of the country. From hidden pockets...

Nicknames popular in UP students’ polls

“Raja”, “Prince”, “Tinny”, “Tony”, “Manshu”, “Vishu” and “Monu” may sound like run-of-the-mill nicknames that are found in every other middle-class household in Uttar Pradesh.But...

BJP to embark on four yatras in UP

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to give a “befitting reply” to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s “Kisan Yatra”, as it gets...

Samajwadis bank on musclemen to woo voters

Contrary to the “clean image” of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party seems to be banking on muscle power in the...

J&K separatists soften stand on shutdown

The separatists in Kashmir have softened their protest calendars following feedback from different stakeholders who have showed unhappiness with the agitation, as it has...

J&K opposition presses for political dialogue

Opposition parties in Jammu and Kashmir led by the National Conference has said that India and Pakistan should embark on the path of reconciliation,...

Mehbooba may order probe in civilian killings

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has apparently ordered a probe into the unwarranted killings during the ongoing unrest, especially the ones that...

Hardik support to AAP rally in Gujarat fuels speculation of tie-up

Gujarat’s Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Hardik Patel has extended support to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) rally in Surat on Sunday, 16...

Time stands still in this little hamlet situated in the heart of the Himalayas

Nestled among emerald green deodar forests and pine knolls lays Dagshai, a quaint little garrison town in the foothills of the Himalayas, located atop...

A novel that doesn’t let go of its reader even after it ends

If there is any book that I have read of late that “literally” speaks to its reader, it is Tanuj Solanki’s  Neon Noon. Solanki’s...

Remembering Chandralekha, whose work redefined Indian dance traditions

Perhaps the only time Delhi’s first warehouse was turned into a black box theatre. Gati Dance Forum’s “Ignite, Festival of Contemporary Dance”, on from...

Tracing the parallels between Ibsen and Mohan Rakesh

A Doll’s House, a play by Henrik Ibsen that was published in 1879, sent a massive wave of excitement across literary Europe. On 10...

Delhi to get a flavour of India’s millennia-old cultural heritage

Ministry of Culture, Government of India, announced the second edition of “Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav, 2016 (RSM). While announcing the second edition, Minster of State...

Art to the rescue: Cyclone-hit women use power of creativity to rebuild lives

The year was 1999. When the super cyclone hit coastal Odisha, bringing mind-numbing death and destruction in its wake, the women of the worst-affected...

Sena’s BJP strategy to unfold on ‘dasara’

Shiv Sena’s annual crowd-pulling “Dasara rally” may hold answers to the fate of the Sena-BJP alliance during the polls to the richest corporation in...

Congress may not play Priyanka card in UP

In a U-turn of sorts, Priyanka Gandhi will not be the star campaigner across Uttar Pradesh, a reliable source in the office of a...

Suhani Pittie launches men’s jewellery line

India’s leading jewellery designer Suhani Pittie launches Men’s jewellery. The debut collection is inspired by the man of today who knows what he wants...

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