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Urban centres are fast becoming zones of uninhabitability. Report after report has been pointing out the utter degradation in terms of air, soil and...

A day after the death of Khushwant Singh on Thursday, just under a year short of the century mark, allegations and accusations that had existed in the...

In one of the fastest ever delivery of verdicts, a trial court in Mumbai has sentenced four men to life imprisonment till death for gang raping a...

There is enough reason and sense in siding with Russia over the Crimean crisis and India, for once, has rightly stood its ground in this case. A...

With South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) finally giving its nod to a hitherto illegal farmhouse in Capital’s Rajokri area, a fresh lease of life...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that international relations are usually the byproduct of how stable or unstable things are at home, and how...

The disappearance of the Boeing 777, the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, with 239 people on board, has raised several unsettling questions. The...

After the Crimean referendum, overwhelmingly in favour of joining the Russian Federation, and in the wake of treaties being signed to welcome Crimea...

The battle for India has somehow been transcribed onto a battle for Varanasi. It is the much-touted seat from which BJP’s prime ministerial candidate...

The spring carnival that we Indians call Holi is an interesting study in how communities and peoples connect with each other, oftentimes bypassing and...

The ‘thin skin’ of news media, including the television, print and new media, is on ample display. After the overreaction to Arvind Kejriwal’s...

There is hope in the air that the money pumped into our doddering economy in the run up to the general elections will considerably lift the fiscal...