When we bade goodbye to Harry Potter and his friends, now all grown up and with Hogwarts-going children they had come to drop at Platform 9 3/4 (Nine and Three Quarters), there would hardly have been a Potterverse fan who had fervently wished the adventures continue. And J.K. Rowling, despite her firm refusal then to continue and branching off into other st...
Gujarat Dalit leaders on Sunday asked the government to give them firearms in view of atrocities by Hindu activists as thousands of Dalits pledged not to lift carcasses from the streets....
The mortal remains of Rakesh Siddaramaiah, elder son of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, will be flown on Monday to Mysuru from Belgium, an official said on Sunday....
The Chief Justice designate of the Kerala High Court, Mohan M. Shantanagoudar, who will be sworn in on Monday, hopes the issues between the media and lawyers will be sorted out....
Sri Lanka's "Joint Opposition", staunch supporters of former President Mahinda Rajapakse, on Sunday said it will defeat President Maithripala Sirisena's government in the coming months and form a new regime....
The CPI-M on Sunday blamed the Narendra Modi government for the rising number of attacks by so-called cow vigilantes on Dalits and minorities. ...
As news both good and bad pours from across India, the monsoon is once again in the limelight. From farmers, scientists and economists to astrologers, the monsoon has a significance unlike any other climate phenomenon in India. ...
Another AAP legislator, Sharad Chauhan, was arrested along with five others here on Sunday in connection with the suicide by a woman party worker, police said...
In a remote hamlet of Sikkim, a young man has a new toilet built by his house. He no longer escorts his wife and children before sunrise to the bushes in the fields, standing guard to shoo away wayside dogs and local pests. "I don't feel like an animal any more," he says...
A little over two years ago, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, had told a sea of supporters and party workers that he had been beckoned by the Ganga to come to Varanasi to contest the Lok Sabha elections. "Mujhe Ganga maiyya ne bulaya hai (Mother Ganga has summoned me)," he told jubilant supporters as he sought the...
