Donald Trump likely to take a hard line on China

How much leverage do business holdings in...

‘Illegal immigration altering Mumbai demography’ 

Illegal immigration from Bangladesh and Myanmar pressures...

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AAP delays adding 30,000 hospital beds

Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government is dithering on its election promise of adding 30,000 beds to the existing hospitals owned by it in...

Indians make breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment

A team of doctors, including two Indian-origin medical scientists, at Deakin University, Australia, recently announced a breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment.Dr. Rupinder Kanwar and...

PM Modi’s 66th Birthday celebrated

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 66th birthday was celebrated on Saturday with wishes pouring in from across the nation. While BJP leaders engaged in social...

‘Chikungunya virus has mutated’

Even as chikungunya strikes Delhi and other NCR areas at its worst, killing as many as 15 persons so far, doctors suspect that the...

Victim accuses police officer of cover-up to save rapist

A rape victim has accused a Delhi Police officer stationed at the New Ashok Nagar Police Station of allegedly “helping” her assaultor in getting...

Job market dampened by the search for profits

The job market seems to be slipping into slow gear with promising sectors slowing down their hiring activities quite significantly this year. The market...

Selfie craze claims 5 lives

Selfie craze claimed the lives of five engineering college students in Warangal city in Telangana on Saturday forenoon. The five, including two girls, were...

Shah wants BJP in Telangana in 2019

BJP president Amit Shah has called for a BJP government with full majority in Telangana in 2019 elections so that the hands of Prime...

Oil pact between Russia, OPEC could be historic

The coveted agreement between Russia and OPEC, two major rivals of the global oil market, to cap their oil production at current levels or...

Ashes of 160 Hindus brought to India from Pak for immersion in Ganga

The ashes of 160 Hindus who lived in Pakistan have been brought to India to be immersed in river Ganga as a fulfillment of...

Sharp decline in number of Maoist activities

Left Wing Extremism appears to be on its way out, with the country showing a remarkable decline in the number of Maoist incidents because...

Akhilesh ends feud with uncle

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has said he would support his uncle and Samajwadi Party state president Shivpal Yadav. Speaking to reporters in...

SP story may have a sequel

The foundation stones have been shaken rather badly. The cracks in the wall are being papered over and may even be given a fresh...

A 41-year-old water dispute is settled amicably

At a time when Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are fighting over waters of Cauvery, here is an example in contrast, of how Telangana and...

Social media added to Bengaluru fire

A young, primary school boy was seen asking around if it were safe to head towards his house after he witnessed a truck being...

‘Libya role’ might have forced David Cameron to quit MP seat

David Cameron, who resigned from the British Prime Minister’s post recently, resigned as MP for Witney, surprising many and triggering a by-election in his...

Top South Korean cosmetic brand all set to capture the Indian market

The Face Shop is a world renowned South Korean cosmetics brand which has dominated  South Korea for a decade now and it is a...

Smartwatches that are going to redefine wearable tech

Smartwatches are part of the new fad trending in the tech world these days. The prospects in this segment are looking up to the...

Book Review: Timely book that exposes the business of baby-making

The womb, whatever its condition otherwise, has become a fertile ground for debate since the Union Cabinet passed the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 last...

Book Review: Why don’t our writers take the climate crisis seriously?

We run into hurdles of all kinds when trying to deal with the climate crisis. There are of course the many economic and political...

Namaste France and Bonjour India to strengthen Indo-French cultural ties

Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) held a curtain raiser press conference recently, announcing the long and magnificent 75-day cultural festival of India. Namasté...

‘I am moved to tears reading about the plight of women’

What made you choose Indian patriarchy as your subject?A. I am not a paranoid male-bashing feminist, just because it has a huge readership market....

Video art exhibition takes viewers on real and imagined journeys of life

The lights at the Kiran Nadar Musuem of Art (KNMA) in Noida are turned off. Muffled sounds of birds’ chirping, running water and subdued voices...

Cauvery dispute: SC asks Karnataka to release 12,000 cusecs per day to Tamil Nadu

The Supreme Court has asked the Karnataka government to release 12,000 cusecs of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu every day till 20 September. Earlier,...

National Railway Museum has seen a massive facelift

The National Railway Museum has had a major face-lift over the past two years. It has seen the renovation of its indoor gallery, restoration...

Kishor’s team rubs Cong leaders the wrong way

Even as Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi undertakes his month long “Kisan yatra” in poll bound Uttar Pradesh, his political strategist Prashant Kishor’s team...

Two killed as security forces clamp down on ‘azaadi’ rallies

On Saturday, clashes between rallyists and the CRPF and Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir police at several places in south...

Pawan scrambles for third force space

Tollywood hero and Jana Sena party chief Pawan Kalyan has finally jumped into active politics and vowed to emerge as the third force in...

Hindon Canal road is unsafe

The Hindon Canal road, a lifeline for people travelling from Ghaziabad to Delhi, has become a haven for notorious elements. The situation has worsened...

MCDs fail to rein in Delhi’s multiplying stray dogs

The three Municipal Corporations of Delhi (MCDs) have failed to tackle the menace of violent stray dogs despite mounting complaints from citizens about the...

‘Legal sex trade not a solution to trafficking’

Swati Maliwal, the chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) spoke to The Sunday Guardian. Excerpts:Q. You have been investigating GB Road properties. What...

Delhi’s plan to divert funds stopped

The Central government has applied the brakes on the Arvind Kejriwal government’s plans to construct hospitals, hostels and schools for construction workers by “diverting”...

Sena, MNS fight to be voice of beleaguered police

Even as attacks on policemen and policewomen are on the rise in Maharashtra, the Thackeray cousins are engaged in a tussle of sorts to...

Maratha anger refuses to die

The debate over the Prevention of Atrocities Act refuses to die down in Maharashtra. Just days after Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar held...

Social empowerment schemes showing results

The Chhattisgarh government’s strong focus on social empowerment schemes has started showing positive results. According to a report by the Reserve Bank of India...

Chhattisgarh initiates a slew of measures for welfare of tribals

Tribal welfare forms the main thrust of the progressive policies of the Raman Singh government. The total population of the state is 2 crore...

India awaits unified retail policy, preferably a consumer-centric one

India is the only country where different policies exist for different segments of retail business and e-commerce, though “logically, there should be one policy”,...

Fed rate hike will not affect India

The fundamentals of the Indian economy might be up for a real test if the Federal Reserve does raise the interest rates in US...

How an unknown microbiologist altered the face of HIV research in India

The discovery of HIV happened because of a search for a dissertation topic by a microbiology student in erstwhile Madras. Sellappan Nirmala was 32...

A grand economic tour that engages the common reader

Any ignoramus, who wishes to decode the intricacies of matters economic, would find a ready reckoner in this assortment of articles on a range...

Where artists can get away from the din of ordinary life

Established on 1 November 2015, Home for Artists is as unique an establishment as the name suggests. It is a place that gives all...

Tolstoy meets Gandhi at this unique BRICS screening

Among the films screened at the first edition of the BRICS film festival, which recently concluded in Delhi, was Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi:...

Delhi University, JNU go to polls

Polling began on Friday morning in Delhi's two politically active varsities — University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) — for the post of President, Vice-President,...

What did Congress do for farmers in 55 years, asks BJP

 The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday wondered what the Congress did for the welfare of farmers during its 55 years of rule.The BJP's attack came just...

Kejriwal had been receiving complaints about Sandeep Kumar

This is not the first time that complaints have been received against former Delhi Minister for Women and Child Development Sandeep Kumar, who was...

Man who sued Rahul wants to end canard against RSS

After the Supreme Court directed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi this week to face trial before the Bhiwandi court in a defamation case, the...

SAIL going for JV with ArcelorMittal

Hot-rolled input products for the proposed joint venture of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) with steel giant ArcelorMittal will be supplied by the...

Geelani, PDP exchange barbs

After intermediaries failed to cut ice with the separatist leadership to bring peace in Kashmir, the war of words between the PDP and the...

BJP faces problem of plenty in UP

With the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) saddled with the anti-incumbency factor and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) crumbling under its own weight, it is...

All-party visit to Kashmir likely to be exercise in futility

Fresh violence has broken out in various parts of Kashmir including on the road to the Srinagar airport, even as the Jammu and Kashmir...

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