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...
Unconscious acceptance of your current situation -- good or bad -- works better in regulating frustrating emotion, say researchers from Southwest University of China....
He can speak Hindi, and feels every visit to India is like a homecoming. Turkish percussionist Gurkan Ozkan, who is here for the Jodhpur Flamenco and Gypsy Festival, says he almost had tears in his eyes upon landing in Rajasthan, where the globally popular gypsy culture has its roots....
Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis - Indians are facing an unhealthy future burdened with a slew of lifestyle diseases. But instead of expensive medication and therapy, the cure lies in making exercise a compulsory part of everyday life, health experts say....
The poppy plant was grown in India and the opium extracted from it was transported to China. It was the soldiers in the British Indian Army who fought in China in the Opium Wars. The opium trade was the driver of British expansionism in China. These Opium Wars' led to a humiliating defeat of the Chinese resulting in a trade treaty th...
With two-thirds of India's gold held in rural areas, efforts to curb its imports with schemes to monetise holdings or convert them into paper bonds won't have much sheen till the mindset towards physical possession of the precious metal is changed, experts maintain....
A 135-year-old legacy comes to an end! Like in the case of the telegram, India Post has quietly discontinued the traditional money order service, which was an integral part of the department since 1880, facilitating pan-India door-delivery of funds to a payee from over 155,000 post offices....
The Aam Admi Party's (AAP's) suicidal tendencies are bound to help the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) more than any other party because the saffron outfit is politically better placed to exploit them....
