External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will lead the Indian delegation to the canonisation of Mother Teresa at the Vatican in September, it was announced on Thursday....
The Ramon Magsaysay and Jnanpith awardee Bengali novelist penned telling commentaries on the sufferings and oppression of tribals, and in a rarity for a city-bred writer, came down from the ivory tower to mingle with them....
This was intended to be a memoir but ended up being a 'procession of images' with a bearing on Muslims in India, more specifically on the rapid 'Othering' of the community after independence in 1947. Veteran journalist Saeed Naqvi's "Being The Other" is a truly remarkable account of all that has gone wrong with Hindu-Muslim relations in...
Sachar committee, in its damning report submitted to the government of India in 2006 put the status of Indian-Muslim “below the conditions of Scheduled Castes and Tribesâ€. In education, employment, income level, representation in the government, and a range of other social and economic indicators, Muslims lag behind all oth...
While more young women are enrolled in higher education than ever before -- and apparently more successful in clearing 10th-standard board exams than young men -- they are either marrying early or not finding or not looking for jobs, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of various data. ...
Politics has never been kind in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous and electorally the most crucial state. There have been instances in the past when lawmakers have shamed the voters by their conduct....
You know, I really regret not ever talking about it (his mother, Princess Diana's death)," Prince Harry told the former England football captain Rio Ferdinand, BBC reported. ...
Genomic analysis of the Jarawas and Onge tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar islands has yielded "strong" evidence of existence of a new ancestor of humans, according to an international team of researchers....
Warning of "serious consequences" over the expulsion of three Chinese journalists by India, a state-owned daily urged Beijing to make "a few Indians" feel the pain over Chinese visas....
Born to a Bengali father and Dutch mother, American fashion designer Rachel Roy, whose client list includes the likes of Michelle Obama and Penélope Cruz, is proud of her Indian heritage, and says India has influenced her work in many ways, especially the colours and prints in her designs....
