The Ramayana and the Gita are not religious texts and should be taught in schools, according to union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma....
Maharashtra Governor C. V. Rao launched the birth centenary celebrations of legendary vocalist and classical singer M.S. Subbulakshmi at a function here late on Sunday night....
The intolerance does not grow in one field of social life in isolation. In different arena of our life it tends to run in a parallel manner....
Well-known journalist and TV host Anita Rani was reduced to tears during a BBC programme after discovering her family's fate in the violence that consumed India after the subcontinent's partition at the end of British rule in 1947, a media report said....
Burning all of the world's available fossil-fuel resources would result in the complete melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, leading to a 50-60-metre (160 to 200 feet) rise in sea level, a study says. ...
The effervescent and age-defying Leander Paes has again done India proud. This time around, on the hard courts of the US Open, the 42-year-old legend partnered Swiss veteran Martina Hingis -- his 24th mixed doubles partner -- to beat unseeded Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 in the final....
The extension of Sonia Gandhi's term as Congress president by another year in her 17th year in the position is an admission of the party's failure to be a living, evolving, dynamic entity rather than an acknowledgement of her staying power and acceptability within the organization....
Contradicting reports of being forced to stop writing after threats from right wing groups, Malayalam literary critic M.M. Basheer said he does not succumb to such pressures....
Poor dietary habits and high blood pressure have replaced child and maternal malnutrition, unsafe water, sanitation and lack of hand washing as leading risks for death globally, a significant study has revealed....
The death of Kannada rationalist and literary scholar M.M. Kalburgi has sparked protests among people of all spheres in Karnataka. Many political leaders have drawn parallels between his death and those of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare....
