The centenary of A.B. Vajpayee: An adamant and ideal leader

His push for liberalization, transparency, and institutional...

Rahul may take bold steps as discontent brews

New Delhi: The Congress needs a real...

Delhi’s perennial air crisis: Time for sustainable solution

Severe and “Hazardous” two words that flashed...

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Over 4,000 troublemakers arrested in valley

The Jammu and Kashmir police has arrested more than 4,000 persons including dozens of minors in an attempt to end the ongoing unrest on...

Rival joins hands with Congress in Rae Bareli

Desperately seeking to revive its political fortunes in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections next year, the Congress has been able to win over its...

DU colleges divided over grading system

While some colleges in Delhi University have been participating pro-actively in the National Assessment and Accreditation Council’s (NAAC) grading system, others call it a...

Ganesha celebrations get bigger in Mumbai ahead of elections

One of the largest public festivals of Maharashtra, the 11-day Ganeshotsav, is set to turn bigger this year in Mumbai due to the forthcoming...

Crime Branch busts gang of interstate Drug peddlers

Crime Branch of the Delhi police busted an interstate gang of drug peddlers and recovered fine quality heroin (smack) worth Rs 1 crore and...

Jio makes customers happy, leaves competitors wary

From tomorrow, you can slash your mobile bill by half if you opt to become a customer of Jio, Reliance’s ambitious venture in India’s...

Flying to San Francisco to be shorter, likely cheaper

Air India’s move to fly directly to San Francisco over the Pacific Ocean, instead of Atlantic, is a smart innovative endeavour backed up by...

Stress is a reason why urban couples struggle to conceive

In today’s fast-paced world, people are busy in their career commitments and fulfilling their day-to-day priorities. Many couples believe that it would be easy...

Search to identify India’s ‘Next Big Heritage Destination’ is now underway

HolidayIQ, one of  India’s largest travel and holiday information portal, very recently signed a Memorandum of Association (MOU) with The Indian National Trust for...

Move over Glastonbury: Home-grown music festivals to electrify the gig circuit

Many thousands of people in India regularly attend big music festivals every year. Despite the ready availability of  music and albums on the internet,...

The jokerman along with his rants and obsessions

In the editorial note to Me, the Jokerman, Mala Dayal aptly sums up the crux of the new book on her father, Khushwant Singh“This...

Language, literature and longing in the land of Gross National Happiness

In an article he wrote in 1995, Pico Iyer touches upon the misfortune of small South Asian countries, like Nepal and Bhutan, which have...

‘We need to take cinema more seriously in this country’

Cinemawala has opened to a wide range of audience, from the New York Indian film fest to IFFI and now BRICS. How are you...

This promising landscape exhibition takes viewers on a colourful journey

A group show titled Lands Within going on at the Egg Art Studio at Barakhambha Road, New Delhi promises to take the viewers on...

Law will make celebrities accountable for misleading ads

The Central government is all set to come up with a new law that would make celebrities “accountable for misleading ads”.The Ministry of Law...

Islamic State’s Filipina honey trap for India

The biggest honey trap recruiter for Islamic State (IS) in India is a 35-year-old Philippine called Karen Aisha Hamidon.She is also likely the mastermind...

Afghan women entrepreneurs look up to India

With Afghanistan plagued by prolonged violence, Afghan entrepreneurs in general and women entrepreneurs in particular are taking a leaf out of India’s start-ups to...

Centre’s efforts bring down steel imports

The Centre’s aggressive measures to help domestic steel industry has started showing results with total steel imports coming down to 2.39 million tonne in...

Shreehari Aney shaped Maha’s stand on Haji Ali

The landmark judgement of the Bombay High Court allowing women to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the famous Haji Ali shrine has brought cheer...

Activists work to unite Dalits and Muslims

As the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls are drawing nearer, some social and religious groups have become active to forge Dalit and Muslim unity to...

Maneka opens e-portal for reporting child abuse

Concerned by various independent reports that a significant percentage of children face one or more instances of sexual harassment in their life time, which...

One of the biggest spectrum auctions likely in October now

The Union government is likely to delay the coming spectrum auction, and hold it during the first week of October. This is touted to...

Polio-stricken orphan Gautam finds his Mother in Saint Teresa

Standing tall on his crutches, 38-year-old Gautam Lewis welcomes us with a broad smile in his makeshift apartment in Kolkata overlooking the busy A.J.C....

Sexual harassment cases not uncommon in JNU

Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have registered 35 complaints of sexual harassment that took place on campus over a period of four years,...

Amended Benami Act will benefit end-users

The usual practice by cash-rich investors buying a piece of land or residential property but getting the same registered in someone else’s name (Benami...

New RBI Guv faces big challenges

As Dr Urjit Patel assumes the RBI Governor’s office next month, two sets of challenges would stare at him throughout his tenure. Of these,...

‘World-class research hub to attract engineers, scientists’

JK Tyre, a leading player in the industry, rolled out its 10 millionth truck radial tyre earlier this week in Mysore, Karnataka. On the...

‘I am still a struggling actor, looking for different roles’

From being the creator of the popular ’90s Indian television series Hip Hip Hurray to working in critically acclaimed independent films like Khosla Ka...

Murugan’s Tamil poems translated into English

It’s difficult to say when I started writing. I was probably eight or nine years then. A little ditty about my favourite cat, ‘Poonai...

Taking stock of the ongoing debate around Maternity Bill

There was a lot of stir in high business and political circles after the recent approval of the Maternity Benefit Bill, 1961, by the...

New Audi A4 is the right mix of power & efficiency

The lower end of the luxury car segment is where we’ve seen all the action in India. Entry level cars have made premium German...

College dropouts, students form majority of recent car thieves: Survey

Car theft may seem like an unlikely occupation for college dropouts and students. However, according to data released by the South-west district police, 55%...

National Green Tribunal bans diesel vehicles

While environmentalists have welcomed the recent National Green Tribunal order banning diesel vehicles that are more than 15 years old on the roads of...

ISI instigates violence via hawala route

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has renewed its effort to spread social unrest in India by channeling money through hawala to groups based in India...

Bad roads kill 3,416 in 2015

Potholes have contributed to 10,876 accidents on roads, out of which 3,416 were fatal, according to the Ministry of Transport and Highways data of...

Sindhu took to badminton by accident: MOTHER

The PVV SIndhu success story can be traced back 13 years ago when an eight year old first wielded the badminton racquet at her...

Pak chalks out merger of FATA with KP

Keeping security as the top concern, Pakistan’s FATA Reforms Committee has suggested the merging of the troubled Federally Administered Tribal Areas with the neighbouring...

Post SC relief, big diesel car makers wary of fuel policy

Though luxury car makers have welcomed the Supreme Court’s order of re-allowing the sale of big diesel cars in Delhi and NCR, yet the...

India, israel boosting strategic relationship

India and Israel are broadening their strategic relationship with increased activity on joint exercises as well as key technology transfer. The Indian government will...

I hope India will help Afghanistan more: Karzai

Afghanistan’s former President Hamid Karzai spoke exclusively to The Sunday Guardian during his recent visit to Delhi. Excerpts:Q. You had come here as President...

Social media proving to be a useful weapon for Baloch activists

The lack of transparency in Pakistan media’s coverage of the freedom struggle in Balochistan has forced Baloch activists to use social media as a...

Agni got 106 tonnes of special steel from SAIL

The Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has supplied 106 tonnes of a special kind of steel for use in the Agni missile.This special...

GST implementation may trigger tax litigation

The implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is likely to keep the legal fraternity busy sorting out legal disputes expected to arise...

No Home Ministry committee probed call data records case

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) did not form any committee to investigate the case related to the unauthorised obtaining of call data records...

Omar seeks Pranab help to solve Kashmir

Opposition leader of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah on Saturday met President Pranab Mukherjee and requested him to ask the Centre to initiate a...

‘Ban pellet gun’ chorus grows as injuries mount

The debate on banning pellet guns is still raging in Kashmir where a seven-week unrest has left over 650 victims with injuries in their...

Joyous Hyderabad celebrates Sindhu’s silver late into night

P.V. Sindhu’s failure to win gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro did not discourage the crowd at the Pullela Gopichand Academy in...

RJD wants lalu’s son as cm, nitish rattled

A recent statement by Bhagalpur MP Shailesh Kumar alias Bulo Mandal of the Rahtriya Janata Dal recommending that party president Lalu Yadav’s younger son...

‘Split UP’ campaign is in cold storage

The issue of dividing Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest state, into four smaller states has become a lost rhetoric, according to those who want...

ITV leads campaign for health, hygiene

A unique initiative, “Swachhagraha” has been launched to increase awareness about sanitation, nutrition, health and hygiene among children and to ensure effective intervention .The...

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