Abstaining from non-vegetarian food and being immersed in prayers for a 50-day period has been the tradition of the Kottayam-headquartered Orthodox Church of India, but this time it has also included a "cyber fast" for a 24-hour period starting 6 p.m. on Thursday....
Having emerged as the world's largest political party, the leadership of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will meet here for two days from Friday to brainstorm how to rapidly expand its influence beyond its record 11 states where it is now in power....
Nigeria's newly elected president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari who defeated incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election, is an alumnus of the Indian Defence Services Staff College in Wellington from where he graduated in 1973....
A tourist to Rio de Janeiro doesn’t consider his tour complete until he has visited Corcovado and Pão d’Açúcar. The panoramic view of the city one gets from the peaks of these two mountains is indescribable. I visited them on the very second day of my arrival in Brazil. ...
Coming to the aid of a Muslim girl who alleged threats from her family members after she married a Hindu, the Delhi High Court has allowed them to live together....
A previously top-secret technology to zoom through the human body down to the level of a single cell could be a game-changer for medicine, an international research conference in the United States has been told....
Summer season brings along various skin related problems including rashes, tanning and sunburn. From following the essential routine of cleansing, toning and moisturizing to maintaing a healthy diet, expert suggests various tips of taking care of yourself in the hot and humid weather....
Royal Challengers Bangalore, for all their flash and dash, glitz and glamour, choreographed one of the biggest flop shows of the 2014 Indian Premier League-7 (IPL-7) by finishing seventh out of eight teams with five wins and nine defeats - a record that defied all expectations and explanations....
The low and declining sex ratio in the country is no longer a subject matter of debate or doubt. The child (0-6 years) sex ratio has declined from 962 in 1981 to 945 in 1991, 927 in 2001 and to 918 in 2011. If we had the same sex ratio in 2011 as in 1981 we would have had 3.9 million more girls. This is the number of girl children t...
Julio Ribeiro is one of the best known police officers in India. Recently (March 16, 2015) he wrote in his article that he is feeling like a stranger in this country. ‘I feel threatened, not wanted, reduced to a stranger in my own country’. This pain and anguish of a distinguished citizen, an outstanding police officer...
