The composite township concept for the return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley, which they had fled following an Islamist militancy that began in the 1990s and which continues to fester, is the latest of many such proposals that have so far failed to woo the frightened community back to the land of its ancestors....
The Shiv Sena on Wednesday moved a notice of privilege motion in the state assembly demanding an apology from celebrity writer Shobhaa De, claiming she has insulted Maharashtra. ...
The one thing I enjoyed most during the few days I stayed at Rio de Janeiro was the jogging I did on Copacabana Beach every morning. The beauty of the beach certainly had a lot to do with it. And the beauty of scantily-clad women, most of them just basking in the morning sun and some playing volleyball, had something t...
Could Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, with his comments on the Fabindia case, first ruling out mal-intent and subsequently giving a clean chit to the top Fabindia management, end up influencing the crime branch probe?...
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday taunted Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Ahmednagar Dilip M. Gandhi for delinking cancer and tobacco and said he deserved a Nobel Prize for his remark....
Amid wide-spread shock and anguish over misinformed statements on tobacco's association with cancer, Kerala's medical community has said that tobacco consumption indeed causes cancer....
As fighting continues to rage in Yemen with reports of over 500 killed in the past two weeks, Saudi Arabia's envoy in India says that the coalition airstrikes have not targeted any civilian areas and that the oil-rich Arab kingdom is playing its "natural role" as "an anchor of stability" in the region....
He says that the allegations by Christians “are so ridiculous and libelous to the prime minister, and even the BJP generally, that they must be exposed forcefully as suchâ€. Then he tries to correct his arguments by quoting tiresome details of his personal and family connections with Christian and Is...
If you want to know how to attempt the assassination of a statesman, track a Nazi war criminal, organise a coup in Africa (or avert one in Russia), get a false passport, blow up a safe or assemble a bomb (conventional or nuclear), then this author will be to your taste. But Frederick Forsyth isn't the writer of a terror...
It's almost a month since British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond visited India, a few days before Mahatma Gandhi's statue was unveiled at Parliament Square in London in the presence of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Call it a coincidence, the visit was appropriately timed on March 12, the day 85 years ago when Gandhi launched his mass sat...
