Pulluvila, a sleepy hamlet located close to the airport here, has earned a place for itself on the global sanitation map -- it boasts of the world’s first eToilet which also uses technology that turns waste into fertiliser, generates power and even makes potable water....
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Getting summons in a defamation is nothing new for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is now into his sixth such case, after a local court summoned him in a complaint filed by Bharatiya Janta Party leader Arun Jaitley....
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....
