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. ...
India plays an important role in establishing peace in the region, a senior officer of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) has said, even as he stressed that the armed forces are essentially meant to avoid war....
Housed in one of the largest palace complexes of Rajasthan is a quaint museum that artfully records the life and times of a kingdom that proudly claims it never "bowed down to the Mughals, or to the East India Company"....
You understand Punjabi perfectly well, but cannot read Gurmukhi, or are fluent in Bengali but cannot read Bangla, and ditto for English. Well, despair not. An app is here to help you read your preferred text, transliterated in the language of your choice....
In the din of hysteria created around the military action on LOC, which was in response to the killing of 18 Indian army jawans in Uri, the issue of anguish of people of Kashmir has been undermined. ...
Walnut farmer Sarabjit (Sarb) Johl was 13 when he migrated with his parents to the US in the early 1960s. Today, he presides over a 1,000 acre farm and a growers' collective that recorded exports of $20 million last year. The icing on the cake, as it were, came earlier this year when he was named Agriculturist of the Year by the California State Fair....
The dry reservoirs -- despite an average monsoon -- of south Karnatakas Cauvery basin illustrate Indias rainfall trends over 65 years: A drop in moderate monsoon rainfall and an increase in extreme events, such as deluges and dry spells, as IndiaSpend reported in April 2015. ...
What followed on the banks of the river is what history remembers as the Battle of Karbala, the central theme of Moharram observances everywhere for the past nearly 1,400 years....
Her journey from being a girl from a small village with starry dreams to becoming Bollywood's "Queen" has been full of twists and turns. Actress Kangana Ranaut, who has faced comments on her figure, her accent or even her brutal honesty, says "everybody, every shape or size" has their time of being celebrated like a trend....
Women journalists, like men, should be judged on the basis of their stories rather than their gender in the male-dominated world of journalism where they face "misogyny and patriarchy" on daily basis, renowned Indian scribes said here on Thursday....
