The hills of Manipur continue to simmer with tension ever since the state assembly, in a specially convened session on August 31, passed three controversial bills ostensibly to protect the rights of the indigenous people in the state....
With hundreds of families across the country preparing Eid-ul-Azha in the last week of September, the ban on sale of meat, including beef, has come as a huge setback for the traders who were expecting a good business during the festive season. ...
Two questions are relevant here. One is how many of those who chose the BJP, probably for the first time, have remained with it? The other is whether the party's traditional supporters, who seemingly have less interest in the economy and development than in a pro-Hindu outlook, are influencing the party's agenda....
Leander Paes, one of the greatest tennis players India has produced, might retire after the 2016 Rio Olympics if he does not perform well....
Harassment of five women reporters of a women's-only news publication based in Banda in Uttar Pradesh and the casual approach of police on the issue has once again put focus on the security of women reporters in the country's small towns....
To suit the present times, mythology has its own interpretations by present generation writers. Read this unknown side of Shakuntala, a little different from what the Mahabharata had to say. Also to read are tales on the Allahabad of yore and of underage CEOs who are raising their ideas into caree...
With the ban on beef in some states and the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha triggering a fierce debate on cow slaughter across the country, a group of Islamic scholars in southern India has appealed to Muslims to avoid sacrificing cows, bulls and bullocks in the community's larger interest....
The recently-concluded World Hindi Conference in Bhopal was conducted by people with "obvious party affiliations" which left out noted Hindi writers, Hindi media persons and students, says a veteran journalist and noted writer....
Locked in a political tussle to take on the mantle of Dalit leadership ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief and union minister Ram Vilas Paswan has emerged a clear winner over former chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) president Jitan Ram Manjhi....
Even after seven months since India's gross domestic product (GDP) data was unveiled under a new series, the controversy over the changed methodology employed by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) refuses to die down with economists even terming it obscure....
