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Who says Indian batsmen are good players of spin?

One of the biggest myths in the world of cricket is that the Indian batsmen are the best players of spin bowling. This exhibited...

Villagers want Army firing range relocated

The residents living in the border areas of Akhnoor and Chamb in Jammu have demanded that the Army’s artillery firing range at Kalith be...

Andhra Assembly, judiciary will duel over Roja’s suspension

The stage has been set for a face-off between Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and the judiciary over the suspension of YSR Congress MLA and...

OBCs all set to oppose new inclusions

The Other Backward Classes are coining legal and political options to stop the inclusion of Jats, Gujjars, Patels, Marathas and Kapus in the OBC...

Vohra halts sale of ‘prized’ govt properties

Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra has asked the administration to stop the sale of Government Arts Emporium and Hari Niwas Palace following a...

KCR will gift flats to journalists

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will gift 2BHK flats to 13,000 media persons, in a startling example of state endowment. The CM’s largesse,...

HC stays Deccan Chronicle stakeholder meet as lenders oppose loan waiver

The meeting between the Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited (DCHL)’s stakeholders and the money lenders, scheduled on Saturday, had to be cancelled following a stay...

Unseasonal rains may trigger farmer suicides once more

With three consecutive crop failures in the backdrop, the persistence of the ongoing unseasonal rains would intensify the rural distress triggering farmer suicides in...

Real estate Act needs faster clearances to be effective

Developers are now looking for single-window clearances, a subset of ease of doing business, for timely completion and delivery of their projects, an obligation...

PM proposes new ‘three pillars’ of farming

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday proposed, “three pillars” to the farming community for capacity development and sustainable growth. These three pillars according to...

‘Poverty, illiteracy are real enemies of India, Pak’

Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, an Islamic Sufi scholar and a leading Pakistani Opposition politician, is in India to attend the World Sufi Forum (WSF),...

‘US, Turkey, France behind Syrian war’

Syria’s Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun blamed the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and France for the war that has wreaked havoc in Syria. The...

Tata Motors hosts the third season of T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship

Tata Motors announced Season III of the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship 2016, scheduled to be held on 20 March 2016, at India’s globally...

First drive: Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza compact SUV

We’re just in the third month of the year, but we already know that the Vitara Brezza is the biggest launch of the year....

Young techies on Aussie robot trail

Young engineers falling between the age group of 14 to 17 from Mumbai represented India in this year’s First Robotic Competition (FRC), which was...

A week-long escapade across Europe for three Delhi University students

To travel is to live,” the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen had said in his autobiography. In today’s mad and confusing world, which is...

With the heart of a dove, but the mind of a hawk

Day Three of Spring Fever 2016, organised by Penguin Random House India, witnessed a packed audience for the much talked about session, “Pakistan is...

Why Indian historians need to look beyond our colonial past

At the opening session of Spring Fever 2016, organised by Penguin Random House India at Delhi’s India Habitat Centre, Ramachandra Guha addressed the challenges...

Treat for the mind: A brief history of the literary café

There’s a great story about the Russian firebrand and Red Army chief Leon Trotsky that concerns his pre-revolutionary days as a young thinker and...

Charting out the emerging trend of flower patenting across the globe

In today’s world the first thing an inventor does, before even inventing something, is to figure out legal ways of securing a patent. But...

‘It’s good that photography is becoming more democratic’

Atul Kasbekar is a renowned fashion photographer who has worked with some of the biggest names in Bollywood. Today a celebrity in his own...

Mallya gets extension from ED till 2 April

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has given a two-week extension to business tycoon Vijay Mallya to appear before the agency in connection with a money-laundering...

Kingfisher house finds no bidder in auction

The auction of Kingfisher House, which once housed the headquarters of Vijay Mallya’s defunct airline Kingfisher Airlines, proved to be a flop show as...

Western Court transit hostel to be replaced

The Western Court transit hostel located on the Janpath, may soon become a part of history as it will be replaced by residential guest...

Robbers ‘train’ on Yamuna Expressway

The Yamuna Expressway has become a training ground for aspiring dacoits from the villages surrounding the Expressway. Several cases of loot by armed robbers...

Many AAP Govt decisions will not pass judicial scrutiny

Many of the decisions taken by the Delhi government in the past few weeks are vulnerable to judicial scrutiny and subsequent annulment as they...

PM Modi will attend world Sufi meet

The stage is set for the “World Sufi Forum”, which will start in the national capital from 17 March, Thursday, and will see the...

The time is not right for my return: Vijay Mallya

Business tycoon Vijay Mallya rubbished charges that he was on the run to evade law enforcement agencies, in an email interview with The Sunday...

‘Mallya’s return to India should be given top priority’

Vijay Mallya, the Indian businessman and politician, has caused the government to worry after absconding from India despite owing banks over Rs 9,000 crore...

Investors must beware of Ponzi schemes duping people of life savings

Till date, crores of people have been duped by Ponzi schemes floated by businessmen promising very high returns to the investors. Many people invest...

PSBs will take minimum two years to regain health

Public Sector Banks (PSBs), presently laden with huge non-performing loans, would take at least two years to regain the capabilities required to fund the...

Student activism has spawned political leaders for years

Student activism has never been far removed from mainstream politics, although the JNU row has made more people notice it. Here is a list...

‘Indians have helped build, develop Saudi Arabia’

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Saudi Arabia, Saudi Foreign Minister H.E. Adel al-Jubeir, who was in India, spoke with Geeta Mohan....

Judges will push for speedy justice to women and children

The chief justices of all the High Courts will consider the possibility of fast-tracking cases related to crimes against women and children at the...

Airlines upbeat about night flights to Srinagar

Air Asia and Vistara are among the private airlines that have queued up before the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to get permit for...

J&K non-serious about sexual harassment

Most workplaces in Jammu and Kashmir do not have anti-sexual harassment committee despite the Vishakha guidelines of the Supreme Court making such an arrangement...

Vohra rule improves administration in J&K

Centre’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir has ushered in an era of administrative reforms, with Governor N.N. Vohra’s regime cracking down on corrupt officials...

Kashmir boy handicapped by tear gas shell, police faces Governor’s ire

After a 12-year-old orphan boy lost his hand while playing with a littered tear gas shell in downtown Srinagar last week, Jammu and Kashmir...

TDP reduced to two from 15, courtesy TRS

The Telugu Desam Party, which aspired to play a bigger role in Telangana as an opposition party, has been reduced to two from its...

Around 50 inmates of Dasna jail react to HIV tests

The Ghaziabad administration in the National Capital Region (NCR) has gone into a tizzy almost 50 inmates of Dasna Jail in the city found...

CBI plans stronger foothold in Mumbai

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has plans to expand its operations in the country’s financial capital and is also looking to inaugurate a...

Broadcasters question DTH auction by Prasar Bharati

A body of regional television broadcasters have raised questions over Prasar Bharati’s alleged discrimination against regional Hindi and Bhojpuri channels, compared to its own...

Dassault demands Rs 90,000 cr for Rafale, India won’t give in

 High-level Indian and French defence negotiators have failed to arrive at a consensus on the pricing of the 36 Rafale jets that India is...

Greyhounds helping Chhattisgarh police, CRPF in anti-Maoist ops

In one of the biggest counter-insurgency offensives in recent times, the Greyhounds’ wing of Telangana police is coordinating with Chhattisgarh police and the Central...

India’s 100GW solar power target safe despite adverse WTO ruling

The recent World Trade Organization ruling against the Indian government’s policies favouring local solar cell manufacturers does not seriously set back India’s solar mission,...

Cricket is rapidly gaining popularity in The Netherlands : Stoelinga

Alphonsus Stoelinga, the Dutch Ambassador to India is an avid cricket fan. He took time off his busy schedule to interact with Sunday Guardian...

Shami will have to perform to make it to playing eleven

For Indian pace bowler Mohammed Shami, Thursday was a red-letter day. It was almost after a year that he was able to complete a...

UP riot report confuses, leads to anger

The Justice Vishnu Sahay Commission report that probed the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 has put the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh in the...

Struggling village girl feted in US

Shabnam, a 16-year-old girl from Balrampur, Lucknow, had never dreamt of visiting America, but as destiny would have it, the opportunity came to her...

Jains prevent misappropriation of government money in Bihar

Timely intervention by local residents of the Jain community in Forbesganj town has helped save government money from being misappropriated by Araria district officials...

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