As a Bihar court on Monday began hearing of a case against Lord Rama for exiling his wife Sita to forest as Ramayana narrates, it asked the petitioner who should be punished for an incident of such ancient times, a government lawyer said....
“My Buddha reflect the times we live in,†says eminent sculptor K.S. Radhakrishnan whose sculptural Installation "Shunya Buddha" is showing at the ongoing India Art Fair 2016....
To most supporters of Narendra Modi, including those outside the saffron fold who welcomed his economic agenda, the prime minister's tenure so far has been disappointing. That he has sensed the uneasy public mood is evident from his directive for action against non-performing bureaucrats....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tributes to Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary....
Rohith Vemula, a PhD student, focused on the interstellar spaces and Carl Sagan. In a different location, a sewage cleaner looks for live cockroaches in the sewer, which ironically give him a sense of security: he can now clean the sewer without fearing death from foul gases. One day he miscalculated. He died. One is a real life character, the...
Outbreaks of Zika virus, a mosquito-borne vector, were first reported from the Pacific in 2007 and 2013 (Yap and French Polynesia respectively) and in 2015 from the Americas (Brazil and Colombia) and Africa (Cape Verde)....
The mosquito-borne Zika virus - a pathogen which was virtually unheard of till some days ago - is spreading so fast that it can infect nearly four million people in the Americas in next 12 months if not tackled well within time and the threat has now reached India....
Inability to prevent the demolition of Babri Mosque was one of the biggest failures of then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, President Pranab Mukherjee writes in the second part of his memoirs released on Thursday, also calling it an act that destroyed India's image as a pluralistic nation....
President Pranab Mukherjee reveals that he never wanted to be the prime minister after Indira Gandhi's death, as several reports have suggested, as per the second part of his memoirs....
She's quite a citizen of the world, having lived in places as diverse as Kano, Antwerp, Singapore, Rochester, Mumbai, Bengaluru and now Hong Kong. Author Shobha Nihalani says she doesn't write to a pattern but that has not come in the way of her churning out five hugely successful novels -- with more to come -- that have mystery and conspiracy as ...
