Life for 40-year-old Santosh Atwal, 33-year-old Banno Saini and several other Dalit women was just about following the legacy of their ancestors -- carrying night soil every morning, cleaning dry latrines, drains and gutters -- and in return facing the unjust behavior and abhorrence of society, that considered even the shadow of manual sca...
Involving a long and gruelling stint of study to qualify and everyday exposure to human pain and suffering, the practice of medicine is perhaps one of the last you could expect to serve as a base for comedy. But it is the saving grace of humanity that it too has people capable of seeing - and sharing - the funny side of their life. Like this doctor...
With a poor tourist season for Goa and no foreseeable sign of its resurrection, the road ahead is a tough one for the tourism-oriented state, according to top officials of the Russian Information Centre (RIC) in Goa, which aims to foster an atmosphere of confidence for Russian tourists in the beach state....
A cumbersome process for military procurements has been blamed by a parliamentary panel for India missing out on "the mother of all deals" for purchasing 126 combat jets, instead of which only 36 will be bought from the same French manufacturer....
The iconic central stupa, with its gazing eyes of the Buddha at Kathmandu's iconic Swayambhunath temple still stands tall at the hilltop, but the surrounding structures inside this famed Buddhist temple complex has been reduced to rubble....
District officials rushed to help four orphaned children living in a makeshift room in a village in Fatehpur Sikri area after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday tweeted his reaction to a media report on their plight....
This could well be a powerful chorus, the primeval cry from the Arab street as the Americans erect a new balance of power in West Asia now that the Iranians have been brought into the game, creating dread, promise, uncertainty....
Mauli Teli has people coming up to her often and asking what 'halal' has to do with cosmetics. "Are such cosmetics only for Muslims?" they sometimes enquire....
The high-speed spread of so-called equality laws means that all forms of sexual differentiation automatically become illegal. "Any type of single-sex facility will thus be discriminatory," said a reader named Mark who works as a paralegal....
Tracking 855 Swedish men born in 1913, researchers have come to the conclusion that refraining from smoking, maintaining healthy cholesterol levels and having not more than four cups of coffee a day can help you live to 100....
