About 86 million more rural Indians have been counted as illiterate than the 2011 census data found....
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What is the Greek referendum? How did the crisis there start? What next? Will India be impacted? IANS presents a primer on the crisis that is rocking not just Europe and its currency but also threatens to spill over to the global economy:...
Winston Churchill's most outstanding contribution during World War II, according to President John F. Kennedy, was that he "mobilised the English language and sent it into battle". But his compatriot, P.G. Wodehouse, went one better, in making the language an unsurpassed medium for some of the most inspired comic writing ever possi...
An Australian photographer has clicked a breathtaking image of the International Space Station (ISS) as it was passing over the Moon....
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Inspired by great writers' depiction of grand cities, British historian Jason Goodwin sought to immortalise the Ottoman Empire's imposing capital, which not only straddles continents but also cultures and eras, in fiction and found recreating the ambiance of 19th century Istanbul owed as much to a stint in Calcutta of the 1980s as c...
The Indian Ocean cannot be a backyard of India which navies of other countries could not visit, according the Chinese ministry of defence here....
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