President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that Vedas are a source of India's heritage, culture and constitute the foundation of our value system....
Notwithstanding a sharp cut in the government's growth forecast at the fag end, 2015 will go down as the year when India emerged as the fastest-growing large economy, despite setbacks such as 12 months of negative export growth, another bad monsoon and roadblocks to the far-reaching goods and services tax regime. ...
The influential Indian-American community packed more heft in 2015 as America wooed "India's reformer-in-chief" Narendra Modi, as President Barack Obama called his "good friend" amid another love fest with the Indian diaspora....
A "budding bromance" between India and the US or "Modbama" as Foreign Policy called it, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama, took their ties to a new high in the year gone by....
On his 91st birth anniversary on December 25, it is necessary to remember that Vajapyee single-handedly extricated the party from its potentially doomed predilection with majoritarianism, which is in sync with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) concept of a Hindu rashtra, where the minorities will be second ...
Ban this, ban that; censor this, censor that; protest over this, and that -- the cinematic, art and creative worlds went through much unrest in 2015, with political and moralistic interventions. So much so that one began to wonder if politics is hampering people's freedom to express. It is, assert prominent personalities of th...
The year just ending would go as one of reaffirmation by the supreme court of its primacy in judicial appointments that was sought to be taken away by the government scrapping the collegium system - in place since 1993 - and replacing it with a National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)....
Legendary Bollywood singer Mohammed Rafi's biography by Sujata Dev was launched here on Thursday on the occasion of his 91st birth anniversary....
Indian cricket went through another disheartening year both on and off the field, starting with the national side failing to defend its World Cup title to Indian Premier League (IPL) sides Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) being suspended by the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha Committee in the spot fixing and bettin...
Seven measures that people can use to rate their heart health and take steps to improve it are managing blood pressure, controlling cholesterol, reducing blood sugar, getting physically active, eating better, losing weight and stopping smoking suggests new research....