It was a pleasant evening, and I was taking a stroll on Copacabana Beach. To my left was a row of hotels and expensive mansions and, to my right, the Atlantic Ocean. I couldn’t help envying those sitting on the balconies of their hotel rooms and enjoying the spectacular view in front of them –...
Paramahamsa Prajnanananda, the spiritual leader of the Kriya Yoga of Prajnana Mission, has kept over 150 cows of Odisha's indigenous varieties at his ashrams and urges others, especially farmers, to follow suit....
The Aam Aadmi Party's electoral success in the Delhi assembly polls is a reflective of how the people of capital rate corruption as an important criterion that has to be bettered over time in India....
Carmen Athaide, 49, slices a few slivers of beef into a broth that's just beginning to simmer on her old kitchen stove. As the soup comes to a boil, the warm, wholesome aroma cuts through the predominant, sharp smell of vinegar-based red-chilli masala, commonly used in Christian homes in the former Portuguese colony....
Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of Singapore, and one of the most influential political figures in Asia died here on Monday after a prolonged battle with pneumonia....
Breaking with tradition, angry women in this Afghan capital carried the coffin of a young woman who was burnt to death by religious extremists for allegedly burning the holy Quran....
Elephants are better than dogs at identifying explosives by smell and are also superior at remembering their training than trained canines, researchers have found....
In contemporary politics, the flow of historical forces cannot be understood by glimpsing a mere snapshot. The unprecedented fourth-term election of Benjamin Netanyahu is indeed a significant event in itself. He will now go down in Israeli history as the longest serving head of government. It is the kind of policy positions he took in the run-...
Delhi, the national capital with the status of a union territory and with a legislature of its own, has been a hot topic of debate on whether it should be elevated to a full-fledged state....
A huge sparkling 'diamond' made of 10,000 discarded blood slides strung together by stainless steel wire and neatly stacked in a brick-like manner has been the cynosure of all eyes at the Kochi Muziris Biennale being held here....
