‘Illegal immigration altering Mumbai demography’ 

Illegal immigration from Bangladesh and Myanmar pressures...

ISLAM: Tazkiya and knowledge

According to one point of view regarding...

Child protection: The Just Right for Children Alliance case

The Supreme Court of India’s recent ruling...

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Paris becomes a paradise for petrolheads this season

The Paris Motor show is the oldest and most visited auto show in the world. The biennial spectacle which started way back in the...

Uri anger hits Chinese mobiles, crackers

Traders at Jagadish Market in Hyderabad are worried for the last few days that their huge stocks of Chinese mobiles might not be cleared...

Tourists bypass dry Bihar

Bihar has witnessed a considerable decline in the inflow of tourists ever since the Nitish Kumar government imposed prohibition on alcohol in the state...

Jagan may force LS bypolls to demand Special status for AP

Opposition YSR Congress Party chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is planning to force by-elections to six Lok Sabha seats on the issue of achieving...

Dengue hits Ram, Ravan in UP’s Ram Lilas

Ravan is down with dengue and so is Ram.  Kumbhkaran is bed-ridden with viral fever. Sita is also unwell, while Lakshman fell unconscious during...

Buddha Yatra will counter BJP’s Yatra

The Buddha Ambedkar Missionary Social Education Foundation, an offshoot of the Backward and Minorities Communities Employee Federation (BAMCEF) which was founded by the late...

Adityanath wants to be UP CM candidate

Senior BJP leader Yogi Adityanath is mounting pressure on the party’s central leadership to declare him as the Chief Ministerial candidate for the forthcoming...

Solid waste management plants will be set up in Delhi

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation and the South Delhi Municipal Corporation have planned an extensive mechanism to manage the solid waste generated in the...

EC cannot make parties follow their rule-books

The Election Commission does not have any mechanism to ensure that political parties follow their own constitutions.Every political party has its own constitution which...

Schools unhappy CBSE scrapped re-evaluation

The deficiencies in the overall evaluation system of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have come to the fore with a majority of...

Delhi Police will have more cops on ground

To minimise the shortage of police personnel on the field, around 5,000 personnel of Delhi Police have been transferred from administrative units to operational...

‘There have been a lot of ups and downs, but it’s been a fun ride so far’

Singer-songwriter Prateek Kuhad, whose debut album, In Tokens and Charms was adjudged the best Indian indie album in 2015 by iTunes, returns with a...

Upholding every individual’s right to education is the aim of this organisation

Despite the fact that India is home to one of the largest education systems in the world, high quality early childhood education continues to...

Link between alcohol and cancer is medically proven

What are cancer-causing substances? If this question were put before educated elite community, including doctors, their response would invariably include: tobacco, pesticides and chemicals....

Gadgets that sold like hot cakes during online sales

The onset of the festive season is marked by a shopping rush, not so much in malls and market squares as on the internet....

Special counselling for trauma cases

With the rise in sexual violence cases — rape, molestation, child sexual abuse, trafficking and so on — many victims and survivors have come...

And thus, the story was born

A columnist and features writer, a published poet and now a published short story writer, Renée Ranchan, is not new to the world of words,...

A series of short stories that leaves us longing for more

This is a collection of stories, short and long. Of the six stories  in the collection,  three are long — 40, 68 and 87...

Sweat equity: Bandhan Bank and its rise to prominence

In our age of maverick entrepreneurs, there are many who have been successful in translating an idea into a popular product. Many twenty-somethings were...

Remembering the man who made the ugly world of technology beautiful

It is widely known how religious teachings of the East have travelled at light’s speed to influence Westerners. From The Beatles to Steve Jobs,...

‘Actors get more flak than others for having an opinion’

Swara Bhaskar, who seems to be breaking the norms of the Hindi film industry and that at a very young age, is bold as...

Digital art exhibition displays new aspects of the creative spirit

A self- taught visual artist, illustrator and a practitioner of digital art with specialisation in mixed-media, Ashok Ahuja’s exhibition Allured is going on at...

Dead and gone: How the absence of art groups has left artists directionless

One of the prime concerns of artists and writers during the 20th century — at least in the Western world — was to bring...

Time to vanquish the Paramparasuras

Legend has it that Mahishasura, the most powerful in the Asura kingdom, derived his powers from Lord Brahma’s boon. Mahishasura had asked for immortality,...

RAW, IB will probe NGOs’ source of foreign funds

As a fall out of the renewal of the Foreign Funding License to the Islamic Research Foundation managed by controversial preacher Zakir Naik, the...

Priests perform pind daan ritual for clients online

Keeping pace with the changing times, several priests have started performing online pind-daan for those who do not have the time to visit Bodh...

Devotees throng Mahatma Gandhi temple for ‘miracles’

Mahatma Gandhi is literally worshipped as a God of ahimsa (non-violence) and peace in this temple located 74 km from Hyderabad in Telangana on...

Students in valley threaten exam boycott

The first casualty of the violence in Kashmir has been education, with schools and colleges being shut from the time trouble started towards the...

KCR, Naidu asked to step up security

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh called up both the Telugu Chief Ministers, K. Chandrasekhar Rao of Telangana and N. Chandrababu Naidu of Andhra Pradesh...

Sit for a test if you want to join Jharkhand cricket body

The cricket body of Jharkhand, Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s home state, has introduced a written test for becoming a member. Considered to be the first...

Unrest cripples economy in Kashmir

The horticulture sector in the Kashmir valley is suffering from huge losses, apart from the tourism industry because of the current unrest. Stakeholders in...

Bank sakhis challenge moneylenders in UP villages

A new name is being added to the existing lexicon of village and block level development workers—the “bank sakhi”. While the ANM, the Anganwadi...

Experts seek national guidelines for covering suicide cases

Experts are thinking of approaching the Press Council of India to request issuing national guidelines for covering suicides. India tops the world when it...

Army Chief visits J&K, takes stock

Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag on Saturday reviewed the situation along the International Border in Jammu and Line of Control in Kashmir even...

UP goes into yatra mode

Uttar Pradesh is on a yatra mode. The journey to the Assembly elections has begun, though it is not clear who will finally reach...

RAW, IB will probe NGOs’ source of foreign funds

As a fallout of the renewal of the Foreign Funding Licence to the Islamic Research Foundation managed by controversial preacher Zakir Naik, the Ministry...

Board makes a mess of invitations

The BCCI made a mess in extending invitations to the former Test captains to honour them during Indian teams’ 500th Test at Kanpur. It...

India likely to resort to DRS in the near future

In a complete departure from what they have been following, it seems that the Indian cricket board is likely to resort to using the...

Hero MotoCorp is betting big on its newest Achiever

When it comes to the 100-125cc bike segments in India, homegrown major Hero MotoCorp is at the leader’s position that too by a fairly...

Fancy chai cafes are replacing posh coffee chains in the NCR

Globalisation and an open economy has introduced Indians to new tastes and food habits. But if there is one thing that has remained unchanged...

Kashmiri literature and some of its great moments

Kashmir is a land blessed with incomparable beauty and cursed with seemingly interminable turmoil. Both these things usually create a very fertile ground for...

Six holiday destinations for Indian travellers who don’t want visa hassles

VietnamThe first country on our list is Vietnam, which permits visa on arrival for Indian passport holders only if they enter the country by...

These smart televisions are worth the hefty price tag

Television technology has evolved with time to such an extent that today’s TVs don’t even resemble their ancient and unwieldy, CRT-based ancestors. This is...

An international film fest in a town with no cinemas

At a time when McLeod Ganj in Dharmasala had only a few video parlours showing mainstream Bollywood and Hollywood films, filmmakers Ritu Sarin and...

New Museum Complex set up at Delhi’s Rashtrapati Bhawan

The old garage space at the Rashtrapati Bhawan has now been converted into a museum, which will be thrown open to the public on...

Artist residency programmes in India have opened up new space for creativity

Everyone grows together here,” says Sumir Tagra, describing his experience of having attended an art residency programme at Khoj International Artists Association in New...

Post Sindhu win, South Indian stars power badminton league

Following P.V. Sindhu’s silver-winning feat at the Olympics, badminton is getting a touch of the razzmatazz. The South Indian film industry is hosting the...

Indians make breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment

Two Indian-origin medical scientists at Deakin University, Australia, along with their team, have announced a breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment. Dr Rupinder Kanwar and...

Sareshwala opposes transfer of Haj affairs to Minority Ministry

The leader of India’s Haj goodwill delegation is strongly opposed to the decision to transfer the management of Haj affairs from the Ministry of...

CBI reaches Mauritius to probe Agusta bribe

Members of the CBI’s Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed to investigate the AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal, have reached Mauritius to probe the money trail...

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