This figure is down from 388 individuals as recently as 2010. The wealth of the richest 62 people has risen 44 percent in the five years since 2010, an increase of $542 billion (Rs.24,66,100 crore) to $1.76 trillion (Rs.1,07,36,000 crore), which is 86 percent ($2.05 trillion) of India’s GDP in 2014....
More than 200,000 people have pledged at the famous Sabarimala Temple here not to throw their clothes into the Pamba river as per a tradition and to keep it clean. It's a part of "Mission Green Sabarimala" that aims at collecting enough signatures to make it to the Limca Book of Records....
It's 2016 and a native of Hyderabad, Syed Akbaruddin, is India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. But it is still 1948 for an amnesiac Pakistan. Gaining no traction on internationalising the Kashmir issue, Islamabad is continuing to rake up before the Security Council the accession of the Hyderabad nizamdom to independen...
Whenever assembly elections are round the corner in Punjab, political fireworks are expected. This time is a little different with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a relatively new entrant in Punjab's political space, firing up the scene and promising to take the state's politics on a new trajectory....
The mere mention of Bharatnatyam will evoke images of sculpturesque poses and vivid expression of emotions, of dancers swaying to rhythmic Carnatic music. However, young and dynamic Bharatnatyam dancer Shashrek Ambardar lends a refreshing touch to one of India’s most-loved classical art forms by attempting a unique synthesis between Carnatic and Hindustani music s...
It was a poignant moment for Balamdina Ekka, widow of Lance Naik Albert Ekka, martyred in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and awarded India's highest gallantry decoration, the Param Vir Chakra, as she visited her husband's burial site after 45 years and collected soil to take back home....
Thirty-eight-year-old Chef Anand George terms as "hugely successful" his 5,000 mile culinary journey from here to Cardiff in Wales. Not only does he run a hugely successfully eatery but also conducts cookery classes twice a month for four hours at a staggering 145 pounds (Rs.14,000/$210) per head - and has a six-month wai...
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading US think tank, has announced the launch of its sixth international centre to produce high-quality public policy research about critical national, regional, and global issues. Based in New Delhi, Carnegie India will open in April 2016 to join Carnegie's centres in Beijing, Beirut, Brussels, Moscow and Wa...
As an Indian diplomat in Karachi, Prabhu Dayal once had an opportunity to "break the ice" with two counter-intelligence agents tasked to tail him everywhere - like the little lamb that always followed Mary, though he notes the duo were "more like fearsome wolves"....
The moment we try to erase differences instead of accepting them, it creates problems. This is because human beings are programmed to differ and no two persons can be the same, said noted Denmark-based Indian writer Tabish Khair, whose latest book, "The New Xenophobia", has just been released....
