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India has some 195 million hectares of land under cultivation of which 63 per cent are rain-fed. Around 45 percent of food-grain production is through...

A few weeks ago, when Nelson Mandela was battling it out with what could be euphemistically called the summation of life, the US president Barack...

The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the powerful ally of the Congress in the United Democratic Front (UDF) coalition Government, is at it...

The Congress leadership has, at last, committed the blooper; it cleared the creation of separate state of Telangana by bifurcating Andhra Pradesh....

 ‘You can do it, if you are a little innovative and develop eco-friendly cisterns to use for immersion.’ The priest, known to the locality for...

Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has stirred up yet another controversy, this time with his ‘toilets before temples’...

In last century, Mahatama Gandhi gave the slogan ‘Cleanliness is Godliness’.  Spiritual leaders like Murari Bapu had been roped in by UN agencies to...

There are orators aplenty but few communicators, says Narendra Modi. For Modi, a despised figure among the scribes and intellectuals of India, oratory...

In the most murderous attack on what is left of the ever-terrorised Christian population in Pakistan, Islamic terrorists killed at least 85...

The Pakistan Fashion Week 2013 in April turned out to be a fruitful event for Pradeep Hirani, CMD of designer-wear Karmik store. Not only was he...

Lady Luck can’t favour a man all the time. Though on Sunday, Lalu started for Ranchi from his Patna residence – after taking the blessings of his...

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), while examining the performance of Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CFA), found that the Ministry...