The Hyderabad University, rocked by student protests after the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, on Friday announced Rs.8 lakh as ex gratia assistance for the bereaved family....
Bharatnatyam exponent Mrinalini Sarabhai's daughter Mallika has criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not paying homage to her mother who died on Thursday, even as President Pranab Mukherjee said "her tireless efforts to spread Indian classical dance around the world will be always remembered"....
India will be the fastest growing big economy in the world in 2016, a United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects 2016 report said on Friday....
By the late 20s Bose, alongwith Jawaharlal Nehru, had become a youth icon. So popular were they that even revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad and Jatin Das were inspired by them. ...
Writers run the risk of didacticism if they turn into activists, says Marlon James, the first Jamacian to win the Booker Prize in 2015. ...
Fourteen people have been detained across the country by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for their suspected links with the IS terror group, a home ministry official said on Friday....
A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), on Friday provisionally closed trading 473.45 points or 1.98 percent up....
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Maharashtra government on a plea of Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba for bail in a case of his alleged links with the Revolutionary Democrats Front - an alleged front organisation of the banned CPI-Maoist....
Chandigarh residents on Friday got their first taste of likely snarls as the city witnessed a full dress rehearsal for the visit of French President Francois Hollande here on Sunday....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday broke his silence on the suicide of Dalit scholar from University of Hyderabad, Rohith Vemula, saying that he was deeply saddened by the tragedy. ...
