Is there a creature that can defeat death? Yes, says new research that confirmed that the tiny hydra - a centimetre-long polyp that inhabits fresh water all over the world - does not show any sign of deteriorating with age and, if kept in ideal conditions, may just live forever....
Sania Mirza personified Indian tennis in 2015 with a stupendous rise that catapulted her to the tip of the women's doubles rankings and also become the maiden countrywoman to win a Grand Slam....
The Lok Sabha speaker may have withdrawn her remarks about the Congress being indifferent towards "national interest" on the last day of parliament's winter session on December 23, but to the people at large, the grandmotherly Sumitra Mahajan had a valid point....
The 'surprise visit' by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Pakistan on Nawaz Sharif's birthday was hailed as a diplomatic triumph everywhere....
The year end image etched on my mind is not of the US-Russian chess games in Syria but of how I saw the crisis being manufactured in that blighted land. Let me take advantage of the New Year and revisit stories to give you a perspective....
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that Vedas are a source of India's heritage, culture and constitute the foundation of our value system....
Notwithstanding a sharp cut in the government's growth forecast at the fag end, 2015 will go down as the year when India emerged as the fastest-growing large economy, despite setbacks such as 12 months of negative export growth, another bad monsoon and roadblocks to the far-reaching goods and services tax regime. ...
The influential Indian-American community packed more heft in 2015 as America wooed "India's reformer-in-chief" Narendra Modi, as President Barack Obama called his "good friend" amid another love fest with the Indian diaspora....
A "budding bromance" between India and the US or "Modbama" as Foreign Policy called it, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama, took their ties to a new high in the year gone by....
On his 91st birth anniversary on December 25, it is necessary to remember that Vajapyee single-handedly extricated the party from its potentially doomed predilection with majoritarianism, which is in sync with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) concept of a Hindu rashtra, where the minorities will be second ...
