It may be even more difficult for you to identify a genuine 500-rupee note from a counterfeit one as the currency being smuggled into India by inimical agencies is now a closer imitation of the original, Delhi Police have cautioned....
Calling for academic institutions to be benchmarked and accredited, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said universities should gear up to the challenge posed by new models of knowledge dispensation - especially online courses....
The Indian consulate in Jeddah has received a few requests to ratify contracts of the domestic workers in Saudi Arabia after India imposed a bank guarantee requirement to be fulfilled by employers, a media report said on Saturday. ...
NASA's first space mission dedicated to the study of a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection that drives space weather is positioned in the Earth's orbit following a successful launch on March 12....
Kochi, March 13 Kerala artist Madhusudhanan, who is featuring in the ongoing second edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale (KMB), has been selected for the upcoming Okwui Enwezor curated Venice Biennale 2015....
Vinod Mehta would have been flabbergasted. He would never have expected such a turnout at his funeral - the most powerful politicians, journalists, writers, cartoonists, artists, everybody except... well, in that exception possibly lay the secret of his success. The fixers and their patrons were not there....
With an unusual drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide and the irreversible exchange of species between the New and Old Worlds, the human-dominated geological epoch known as the Anthropocene probably began around in 1610, a research shows....
Tucked away in Abheypur Village on Sohna Road, just ahead of Gurgaon, we spot a 70-year-old lady - wrinkled in skin, but not in spirit - sitting with a traditional 'charkha' to create indigo thread. She's working to create handloom fabric for casual shirts and sleeveless bandhgala Nehru jackets to be sold to urban youth....
Unlike girls of her age who dream of becoming doctors or engineers, she wanted to be something different. Many laughed at her dream, but today she is one among the few Muslim women in India to hold a commercial pilot's licence....
It was November 2001. I had been in Buenos Aires for five days, enjoying everything I saw around. I was surprised to see that, in spite of the economic woes the country as a whole had been experiencing, the capital city functioned fairly efficiently and its reputation as “The Paris of South America†remaine...
