Candidates with hate speech cases against them were three times more successful in elections compared to those without a criminal record, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of self-disclosed crime records of candidates who have contested various elections nationwide over the last 12 years....
While K.B. Ganesh Kumar will this time be part of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and look for a fourth consecutive win, taking him on will be hugely popular character and comedian Jagdish (Congress)....
B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution and a Dalit icon, is the new flashpoint between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh as the state gets battle-ready for assembly polls early next year....
Seventeen young Indians have returned from Antarctica with breath-taking stories of its icebergs, icy winds, weather and inhabitants - penguins, seals, whales and sharks....
The world tallest mountain, Everest, has developed several cracks and holes due to the devastating April 25, 2015 earthquake, ice-fall doctors who are installing ropes and aluminum ladders from base camp to top of the mountain have said....
She mulled over the problem and finally decided that she would do her bit to help the hungry - even those who cant pull out their wallets to pay for what they have eaten at her restaurant....
Out on bail after spending more than three weeks in Delhi's Tihar Jail for sedition over alleged anti-national slogans, JNU student-activist Umar Khalid has said he and his other university colleagues were wary of a pre-planned attack by right-wing Hindu groups. ...
The similarities between the views of Donald Trump, the Republican Party hopeful in the US presidential campaign, and the BJP hawks in India are too obvious to be ignored....
Savarkar’s politics was rival to Gandhian politics. Gandhi – the representative of Indian Nationalism was branded by Savarkar as conciliator and appeaser of Muslims. Savarkar propounded that struggle for supremacy would begin after British left and that the Christians and Muslims were the real enemies who could be defeated only by “Hindutvaâ€. ...
Archaeologists who got permission to scan Shakespeare's grave for the first time believe that the Bard’s skull could be missing from his tomb in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon....
