A huge depression on the seabed recently detected off the Kerala coast in the Arabian Sea could be a crater caused by the impact of a meteorite, researchers in the marine division of the Geological Survey of India (GSI) claim. But they admit more studies are needed to confirm this....
It's all thanks to Lou Majaw, the Dylan of the East, for bringing together fans from across India and Europe here to honour the singer-writer "who redefined boundaries of literature". ...
Choosing Bob Dylan as the recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature was unprecedented in the award's over-a-century-long history. While the Swedish Academy's decision to select a songwriter, instead of a writer or poet, has earned much praise -- and much criticism too -- its real significance lies in what it means for the definition ...
Like nature, politics abhors a vacuum. It is not surprising, therefore, that after several days of uncertainty, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O. Panneerselvam assumed charge of the ministries which were handled by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa before she was hospitalised....
BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure that all interrogation by police and CBI across the country must be recorded on CCTV....
Accusing the Narendra Modi government of being the "biggest challenge" to the values of democracy and diversity, Yogendra Yadav, who leads India's newest political party, says all existing parties have let the country down....
With a genetic predisposition brought to the fore by changing lifestyles, deaths due to diabetes increased 50 per cent in India between 2005 and 2015, and is now the seventh-most common cause of death in the country, up from 11th rank in 2005, according to data published by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD)....
From Kerala known for the culture which has kept the identity of different religions and has also led to their intermixing, comes the news that the renowned literary critic and Malayalam scholar, Dr. M.M. Basheer was threatened and told to stop his column on Ramayana, Ramayana Jeevithasaramritham....
India will gain substantially from progressive participation in achieving a strong amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which can spur its domestic market growth, a US-based environmental advocacy group said on Wednesday....
Indian politicians are currently leading a campaign to boycott Chinese goods. But an IndiaSpend analysis shows why this will fail: China is India's largest trade partner, a sixth of India's imports are Chinese, up from a 10th in 2011-12, while India's exports to its rival have halved over the same period....
