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...
Environmentalists on Monday welcomed the news of Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari's volte face on the proposal to build barrages on Ganga for transportation but remained sceptical of his intentions....
An auction house in Uruguay's capital Montevideo hopes to get at least $40,000 for an iPad used by Pope Francis, with the proceeds to be donated to a Catholic high school in the northwestern city of Paysandu....
Singapore will finalise the master plan for the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh in six to eight weeks....
As the campaign to elect the next British Parliament begun on Monday, surveys have predicted a hung House of Commons with minor parties like Scottish National Party (SNP) and UK Independent Party (UKIP) calling the shots....
Allowing workers to choose the slot of hours they want to work in is good for their well-being, says a study from Loughborough University, England....
Posted as chief officer of the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) four months back, 2012 batch Indian Administrastive Service (IAS) officer Naveen S.L. took many steps to simplify government rules and mechanisms for the common citizen and taking on vested interests....
From the happenings of recent weeks, it will be tempting to deduce that Arvind Kejriwal is a Stalinist who, like all autocrats, hates democracy and dissension and loves yes-men. That's what Prashant Bhushan will want us to believe. But the stormy story of the Aam Aadmi Party's internal crisis is far more complicated than such a black-and-w...
