The four-day conference of a host of anti-Beijing international Chinese action groups in Dharamsala from April 28 is bound to mark a watershed in the history of India-China relations. Contrary to India's established policy of playing the underdog or a hesitant victim, New Delhi appears to be shifting to the combat mode in its dealings with Beij...
Rewinding fast backward reveals that when the Kyoto Protocol was opened for signature 18 years ago, on March 16, 1998, only six countries signed it on the opening day. Four of them were small island countries. When the Paris climate deal was opened for signature at UN headquarters on Earth Day, April 22, 2016, a whopping 175 countries ...
The clergy should serve their congregations, Pope Francis said on Tuesday, in a letter condemning clericalism, which he called one of the "greatest distortions" of the Church in Latin America....
Hindutva is a brand of fundamentalism and the Hindu right wing is distorting what Hinduism stands for, says renowned author Nayantara Sahgal who was among one of the first writers to return her Sahitya Akademi award to protest against intolerance in the country....
Mahatma Gandhi's grand daughter Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, who was recently conferred with a top French honour for her contribution in the field of environment, education and culture, says she feels bad when the Mahatma's name is used for negative reasons....
Marxist cadres chanting "Rahul Gandhi laal salam", enthusiastic Congress workers crowding CPI-M veteran Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's road show and the red flag fluttering alongside the Congress tricolour - scenes hitherto unthinkable are now common in West Bengal....
Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu's nomination to the Rajya Sabha is not only expected to improve the BJP's prospects in next year's assembly polls in Punajb but the party is also expected to gain from his articulation of issues in the upper house. ...
Home to over 1,300 animals and birds, the National Zoological Park in Delhi is gearing up to bring significant changes, including through plantation of more exotic trees and construction of a butterfly park....
Shakespeare's India was rich with pearls and precious stones, its people deeply religious and its veiled women famous for their "dark beauty". And the country has repaid the Bard "richly" for his attention, Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Navtej Sarna has said....
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA), which made the announcement at its headquarters here, chose Salman from a list of two to three candidates which also included Shah Rukh Khan and veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan. ...
