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Yet another British-era relic is chugging into history books. The days of the 65-km-long narrow gauge train from Dholpur to Tantpur in Agra district...

IN YET another attempt to save regional rural banks from collapse, the government intends to take private parties on board. In the recently concluded...

As a former CM and army engineer, do you think that the disaster which devastated the higher hills of Uttarakhand and halted the ongoing Char Dham...

The serial bomb blasts at Mahabodhi temple at Bodhgaya may not have damaged the world known shrine, but it has dented the image of Nitish Kumar and he...

Presently the electronic news media in India faces a vast array of challenges, which are both financial and intellectual in nature. On the one hand,...

On the morning of last Monday, the newspapers in Dehradun were full of reports of chief minister Vijay Bahuguna having sacked the state information...

Two recent events may cause serious difficulty and embarrassment for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh. The first, relates to...

Indira Khurana 28 July will mark the third aniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s explicitly recognised ‘Right to Water and Sanitation’,...

WE HAVE all heard about food chains and food webs. In school they tell us how an ecosystem is as simple as ‘who eats who’. Grass is eaten by...

Raman Thapa (name changed) came to Delhi some 15 years ago. Alone and lonely in an alien city, he soon started visiting a brothel. After some time, he...

Today is Tuesday, the day designated to perform Hanuman puja in celebration of the famous character from Ramayana. Hanuman epitomises trust and...

Whether Edward Snowden receives asylum in Bolivia, Venezuela or Nicaragua or not, whether he meets the same fate as the world’s...