Dev Tamboli, a worker in Qatar, said his sister was held captive in Al Ain by a human trafficking gang last week, Xpress Abu Dhabi newspaper reported on Wednesday....
List of 98 cities and towns selected under the Smart Cities mission (population in brackets):...
Will the religious census released by the central government on Tuesday stir up India's political cauldron? Reports from two states with a sizeable Muslim population suggest that it just could....
Not only one of the best-known writers from the tense 1930s to the swinging 1960s, Dennis Yates Wheatley (1897-1977) was also extraordinarily well-read with a massive library of first editions and his writings betray a wealth of literary influences - Jules Verne, Bram Stoker, but particularly Alexandre Dumas and his iconic Musket...
Mary Kom, the only Indian boxer to have a bio-pic made on her, also said after her retirement post the Olympics, she wants to invest her experience in training talented youths to create boxers like herself....
We all love bold economic forecasts, especially contrarian ones. And every once in a while, they turn out to be correct. Economists who correctly called great market booms and busts, global recessions, identified green shoots before sharp cyclical recoveries and predicted black swan events correctly are given legendary status. Of course, to some ex...
A video of Shashi Tharoor speaking at Oxford on a debate related to the colonial period has been ‘viral’ on the social circuit for a while. In this video Tharoor makes a passionate plea to the British that they make reparations for the losses to Indian economy during the British rule. He puts the blame of India’s economic decline...
With the defeat of Mahinda Rajapakhsa's United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in the just-concluded Sri Lankan parliamentary election, not only is the island nation likely to go through a political overhaul but its strategic implications would also influence the course of events in parts of South Asia. The United National Party(UNP)-led...
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time," said American author and humourist Mark Twain....
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