Maha Kumbh 2025: Where faith and modernity unite

This Kumbh will be known as the...

IMF retains India’s GDP growth forecast at 6.5% for FY26, FY27

New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Reclaiming Bharat’s soul: The Maha Kumbh and the awakening of Bharat

Over the past decade, Bharat has witnessed...

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Banking facility will aid trade across LoC

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has authorised the state Department of Industries and Commerce to work out the modalities for establishing banking...

Naidu poaches Jagan’s leaders

Three more YSR Congress MLAs have defected to the Telegu Desam Party this week, giving credence to accusation that the ruling party is poaching...

Delhi gets its first human milk bank for vulnerable infants

Fortis La Femme, in association with Breast Milk Foundation (a non-profit venture promoting the safe use of human milk for babies), on Tuesday launched...

MCD byelections are a test for 2017

The byelections to 13 vacant wards of three MCDs (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) will be held on 15 May and the results will be...

BJP dragged its feet, missed opportunity to bring Adarsh culprits to book

The scathing order of the Bombay High Court directing demolition of the 31-storeyed epitome of corruption in plush South Mumbai, Adarsh building, has sent...

Mental toughness sets Virat apart

Virat Kohli is the world’s best  batsman in the T 20 format.  His phenomenal record over the past two months in which he slammed...

India and Pakistan’s foreign secretaries will hold talks

Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry will hold talks with his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar here on Tuesday, on the margins of a global conference...

Witnesses were tortured to frame Purohit, says lawyer

“It is not overnight that 40 witnesses have changed their statements. This has been happening for years, and we have been pointing this out....

Sleeper scam returns to haunt Nitish

The Central Bureau of Investigation’s “flip-flops” on the multi-crore “sleeper scam” is set to haunt Janata Dal United president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish...

IAS shortage holds back work in Bihar

The shortage of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers is affecting administrative work across the country and Bihar has the maximum shortage of such officers....

Hardik, Patidars look to Nitish for help

The Patidar reservation campaign led by Patidar leaders Hardik Patel and Akhilesh Katiyar is now increasingly looking towards Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for...

Family feud after Kirpal Singh’s death

The family of Kirpal Singh, the Indian prisoner who died in Pakistan’s Kot Lakhpat jail last week, is headed for a legal battle, with...

Traditional taxis struggle in the time of Uber, Ola

App-based taxi aggregators are edging out traditional taxi services and other small time players from the business, especially shrinking the point-to-point services for which...

Ban on surge pricing affects cab supply in Delhi

After the Delhi government banned surge pricing by app-based cab aggregators like Ola and Uber, one would expect the service providers to protest the...

OPEC losing relevance as oil cartel

The desperate attempt by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) together with Russia to concretise a crucial agreement that would have bound...

Chabahar agreement likely to be signed soon

The sincerity with which India is calibrating its Middle East policy, the fate of the Chabahar Agreement, which would help India better survey the...

Two minors die in heat-ravaged Marathwada

The temperatures across Marathwada and Vidarbha have been soaring over 40 degrees Celsius, and many people are getting a sunstroke while going out in...

Maharashtra’s green army will plant 2 cr trees

The Maharashtra government has plans to plant two crore trees in one day, and has begun the process of forming a “green army” for...

Robbers in East Delhi hound rickshaw pullers at night

Unobserved by the law enforcement agencies, organised groups of robbers have been operating in the Patparganj-Mayur Vihar area of New Delhi. These groups target...

CM naidu is distant 79th in TDP ranking

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu secured a non impressive 79th rank in a first of its kind rankings of the state’s ministers...

Drought hit Telugu states may curb water supply to alcohol distilleries

Unprecedented drought in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh may force the governments in the two Telugu states to impose curbs on the supply of...

Kishor is a headache for laidback UP Congress

The Prashant Kishor factor is bringing more pain than gain for Congressmen in Uttar Pradesh. A hands-on poll manager, Kishor has ruffled Congressmen, most...

‘We want India to help liberate Balochistan from Pakistan’

Balochistan wants freedom from Pakistan and activists from Balochistan are trying to garner public support among the international community to help Balochistan in their...

Congress notice for RS debate on Uttarakhand

 Congress members in Rajya Sabha on Saturday gave notices in the House for the suspension of Question Hour and starting discussions on the continuing...

Uncomfortable truths: A film that plays up our old primal instincts

A  few weeks ago, I wrote about Experimenter, a film that dramatises one of the most famous psychological studies of all time. This week,...

Fine print of a master musician’s journey

Rasik Rang Rachana, a book on music by Pandit Deepak Chatterjee “Rasikrang”, a veteran Hindustani classical singer, was recently launched at Delhi’s India International...

Imperial bonds: Forces that shaped young Kipling’s mind

 Kipling Sahib: The Raj PatriotNew Millennium Publishing Ltd.Pages: 139Price: Rs 954British colonialism could be seen as one massive binge that seems to have left...

Looking beyond the stars of India’s freedom struggle

Our country owes its freedom not to one or two figures, but to a collaborative effort for liberty which was put together by a...

‘I am not sure why my photos are much darker than my writings’

Q. When were you given your first camera, and what kind of equipment do you use now?A. I have taken photographs ever since I...

The other side of Yamuna, where the grass is greener and the stream pure

The cleaner part of Yamuna has not only been overlooked, but almost already forgotten. Yamuna, considered the dark sister of Yama, the Hindu god...

A platform that’s giving voice to artists with disabilities

Korean Cultural Centre’s latest exhibition titled “Silent Voices: Words End Where Truth Begins” features the artists who suffer from bilateral sensor neural loss —...

An artist who never gave in to the lure of abstraction

Through the ages, the image of woman has remained enslaved in a gilded frame of ‘Ardha-Nareshwari’, half man, half woman. In the Bikash woman,...

Lights, Camera, Internet

One of the biggest releases of the year, the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Fan          released to packed theatres on April 15, and...

High Court sets aside President’s Rule in Uttarakhand

The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday quashed the President's Rule in the state while ordering floor test in the Assembly on 29 April.The High...

E-curfew lifted from Kashmir

Mobile internet services were restored across the Kashmir Valley on Monday after the minor girl told the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) that she was...

Fate of IPL hangs in the balance

After tremendous public outrage and scathing remarks from the Bombay High Court, the fate of the matches of IPL Season 9 hangs in thin...

NDA may get a working majority in Rajya Sabha

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre may get a “working majority” in the Rajya Sabha this year itself, in fact inside...

Maharashtra CM admits to poor waste processing

On the backdrop of the recent fire at the Deonar dumpyard in Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has admitted to the dismal rate...

Students’ demand to shift NIT rejected

The deadlock at the NIT Srinagar campus continued on Saturday as the government ruled out shifting the NIT out of Kashmir and with outstation...

Review sought of mobile tower bylaws

The Ministry of Telecom has raised concerns over a provision in the recently notified unified building bylaws for Delhi by the Delhi Development Authority....

Raj Thackeray becomes PM’s new foe

During a historic Gudhi Padwa rally at Mumbai’s traditional Marathi stronghold Shivaji Park, Raj Thackeray launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Fadnavis govt’s actions to cope drought questioned

Questions are being raised on the Maharashtra government’s seriousness in dealing with the drought situation in the state. At present, Section 144 of the...

IPL gets a pat in the back from ace spinner Ashwin

India’s leading spinner Ravichandran Ashwin felt that the IPL provided the ideal stepping stone for domestic cricketers to make their mark in international cricket....

Govt eyes better minority education

The Multi-sectoral Development Programme (MsDP) of the government of India is laying stress on uplift of the education standards among minorities. The latest data...

Manufacturing not yet out of UPA ‘policy paralysis’

Over one-third of projects in the manufacturing sector have reported time or cost overruns worth about Rs 900,000 crore due to delay in their...

Ukraine seeks defence cooperation with India at the expense of Russia

Ukraine is making a strong push for increasing bilateral cooperation with India, at the expense of Russia’s market share, with key agreements inked at...

No end likely to Delhi’s water crisis

The national capital’s water woes are rising as the mercury inches higher, with increasing power cuts and high distribution losses making the situation worse.Delhi...

BJP’s Dalit advances will cost BSP in UP

The BSP is feeling increasingly threatened by the growing influence of the BJP on Dalits in UP, though recent poll surveys have shown the...

‘Confusing’ plan stumped Chandigarh out of smart city race

An “inadequate and confusing” plan prepared by the Chandigarh administration was behind the Centre’s refusal to include the common capital of Punjab and Haryana...

No headway in Chand Kaur’s murder probe

The sensational murder of Chand Kaur, wife of the former head of the Namdhari sect, late Satguru Jagjit Singh, in Ludhiana continues to remain...

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