The first merit list for admissions to Indian schools in Oman's capital Muscat brought with it sleepless nights for parents from the Indian community, with 1,900 applications being kept on the waiting list, media reported on Tuesday....
What has religion to do with politics? What has violence to do with religion? And how does the expression of major political agenda shape itself in contemporary times? Roughly speaking it seems that the religion is being used as a cover for many a political phenomenon. This seems to be the observation more so from South Asian-West Asian perspective. ...
For the first time in its 136-year history, media company Kasturi & Sons Ltd., publishers of The Hindu daily, on Monday announced a voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) for its employees....
The Kremlin will no longer make any comments regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health in order to avoid triggering more rumours, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared on Monday....
Expressing concern at the "inadequate" self-regulatory mechanism within the media, Prasar Bharati chairman A. Surya Prakash has suggested that the Press Council must become a 'Media Council' with adequate media representation and acquire more teeth....
The state of California has only about one year's worth of water left in storage and its groundwater is rapidly depleting, a NASA scientist has found....
German archaeologists have discovered what may be the world's oldest pretzel - a type of baked bread product made from dough....
With less than five months to go before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chooses the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics, sports officials and advisers have made their predictions about the race between Beijing and Almaty in Kazakhstan....
The Haryana government will introduce the teaching of "Bhagwad Gita", a Hindu scripture, in school curriculum from the new academic session this year, said Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday....
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who began his fourth year in office on Sunday, appears to have walked out of the overpowering shadow of his father and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav....
