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Even as the government mulls laws to deal with chit funds more strongly, it seems the mother of all scams, Nirmal Singh Bhangoo-led Pearls Group’s Rs...

Cyclone Hudhud has hit Visakhapatnam, Andhra’s big city. Home to two million people and a major naval base, Visakhapatnam’s many streets have since...

We have heard of the adage ‘politics is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ For long, we desisted believing in it. But increasingly, India’s political...

In times like these, when the Delhi government is making elaborate plans to cleanse the Yamuna and restore the river to its earlier ecologically...

There’s a delicious irony in the wink and smile declaration that gave the 2014 Peace Nobel to Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash...

So Mark Zuckerberg’s here, selling India its digital dream. The Facebook CEO, one of the world’s youngest and richest, in his two-day India trip, has...

What and why was MGNREGA, or Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act? Even in its very name, it’s self-evident: it is to ‘guarantee’...

After a reign of theoretical physics and the spell of quantum mechanics on the scientific fraternity, it seems the small is again big in this area of...

Poet and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar is taking on a new role to reintroduce the audience to the rich, classical poetic culture with a modern...

Pakistan Rangers’ intent to go on the offensive seems clearly visible and engagement of Indian forces in heavy mortar shelling also makes it easier...

It seems the lion of Gujarat roars only when an election is staring at his party’s face, whether for national or assembly legislatures. While the...

Increasingly, the hidden design behind the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant/al-Sham is coming to the fore, and that has little to do the frenetic...