The modest jackfruit has always had an indifferent existence in the Indian household -- more ignored than relished. Rather, the largest tree-borne fruit has been the delight of squirrels and birds in its native land. ...
On the day Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claimed the BJP had won the ideological war in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) battle because student leader, Kanhaiya Kumar, had waved the national flag and said "Jai Hind", a group of saffron activists vandalised a church in Raipur in Chhattisgarh....
Pope Francis has introduced new financial oversight of the Catholic Church's costly saint-making machine after two tell-all books revealed major abuses in the process....
Chandigarh, India’s first planned city -- known for wide roads laid out in geometrical precision and large, green spaces that adorn neatly arranged rectangular neighbourhoods, called sectors -- faces an unlikely problem: How to collect, segregate and dispose its 25 truckloads of solid waste daily....
BOOKS When confronted with a disappointing Indian reality, we are apt to ask "what if" questions. Here's a book that raises questions about India's pioneers who steered a new nation....
The world has been talking about email this week, after the death of American programmer, Ray Tomlinson, on March 5. Tomlinson has been variously called email’s godfather, father and inventor, for having created a message transfer system between two computers in the same room in the 1970s....
Malayalam movie artistes are currently caught in a 'catch 22' situation as two senior members of their Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) are most likely to take on each other in the upcoming stated assembly polls....
The winery produced high quality wine that helped the Canaanite ruling family to impress their visitors, heads of important families, out of town guests, and envoys from neighbouring states, the research revealed. ...
On Sunday, as the results of the legislative council elections through local bodies were being announced, there was a mad scamper by the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) to bill its winning 23 of the 28 council seats as "acceptance of its development agenda"....
Although the Assam Pradesh Congress tried its best to keep the BJP and the AGP apart, identical electoral base of the two parties has forced them not to split each other’s vote which would have brought about a mutual downfall....
