Seventy per cent of Indians -- mostly young -- wish to re-elect Narendra Modi as Prime Minister in 2019, an online poll said on Friday. However, women's support for the re-election of the government was marginally lower at 64 per cent....
For those who accuse Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa of "religious bigotry" and baptising even dying people, her close associate Sunita Kumar could be the perfect counter. A devout Sikh, Kumar says she often sat in the same chapel beside the Catholic nun who the Vatican will canonise on Sund...
The Supreme Court verdict on land acquisition for the Tata Nano project in West Bengal's Singur could pave the way for strong reforms in the methodology adopted for land acquistion. It may also facilitate enactment of a standard mechanism for such acquistion, industrialists and economists said on Thursday....
When the world celebrates the proclamation of Mother Teresa as a 'Saint' on Sunday, September 4, by Pope Francis in the Vatican, a church in Maharashtra will also have its own memorable celebrations....
Debuting with a book that gives voice to the lives of people of Indian origin in Trinidad and Tobago, author Aliyyah Eniath believes there is a strong need to convey the stories of the diaspora to the world....
The 10th Biennial Global Conference of World Malayalee Council, which was held in Bangalore from August 26-28, elected its global leadership for 2016-2018 headed by Issac John Pattaniparambil as the Global Chairman and Dr. A. V. Anoop (Chennai) as WMC Global President....
Known to many generations of Indians as a diminutive but determined woman in a blue-bordered white sari who cared for the poor and destitute, Mother Teresa, who is due to become the Roman Catholic Church's latest saint, also holds pride of place among the emissaries of compassion and service who...
A recent book by Time business columnist Rana Foroohar offers interesting insights about economies in general in the post-crisis world and about the American economy in specific. It also can be seen to offer some lessons for countries like India, which want to become globally competitive in sectors like manufacturing....
On September 4, Blessed Mother Teresa will forever be known as Saint Mother Teresa. I know of no one in my lifetime, save for Saint John Paul II, who could rival her qualifications for canonization....
Dr. Aroup Chatterjee is not your ordinary Indian physician: he is a left-wing propaganda specialist who hates Mother Teresa. He, along with the late Christopher Hitchens, were the first to attack Mother Teresa in the 1990s with their documentary, "Hell's Angel."...
