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How Well Do You Know Mahatma Gandhi?
Guess who set up three football clubs in South Africa in the first decade of the 20th century? You may not have ever imagined Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and football in the same sentence, but he did...
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The Ultimate Way To Celebrate Gandhi Jayanti Is By Following This Gandhi Trail
If you're looking for a unique way to remember Mahatma Gandhi's contribution to the country, here's one that you can attempt any time of the year. Here's a list of places you can visit to get a better...
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Has Narendra Modi Dumped Sardar Patel For Mahatma Gandhi?
NEW DELHI -- In February 1949, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel declared, "Hindu Raj was a mad idea...it will kill the soul of India." A year before, he imposed the first ban on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh...
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Eight Of Iran's Women's Football Team Are Actually Men
Eight members of Iran's national women's football team are actually men awaiting sex change operations, reports have claimed. A report in the 'Daily Telegraph' quoted an Iranian football official...
View ArticleBapu Is My Inspiration For Saving The Environment, Says Modi
Declaring Mahatma Gandhi to be his "inspiration", Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made a strong pitch for environment protection and energy conservation, linking them to the Bapu's commitment to...
View ArticleAkhilesh Yadav Takes On PM Modi, Dares Him To Ban Beef Exports
Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said those who spoke against "pink revolution" should ban beef exports as they were now in power and alleged...
View ArticleIndrani Mukherjea's Condition Is Stable, Must Have Consumed Tablets, Says Doctor
Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in Sheena Bora murder case who is currently in jail, was admitted to state-run J J Hospital here today after she complained of “uneasiness”. “Indrani was brought to...
View ArticleA Group Of Painters Wants To Turn Strife-Torn Kabul To The World's Graffiti...
Aqela is hunting for a job again. Women like Aqela in Kabul usually earn a living by working as daily wage labourers, cleaning homes and offices, doing laundry for people, washing dishes. Clad in her...
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India's Climate Promises Hang On Solar Push
India's commitment do its bit to limit global warming implies an unprecedented fillip to solar power, but also raises key questions about how speedily can the government move to arrange the mammoth...
View ArticleCBI Grills Mayawati For Likely Role In Multi Crore Rural Health Scam
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has been questioned by the CBI for her alleged involvement in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam after the agency claimed to have got...
View Article'Revival' Plan Of Congress Includes Recalling 81-Year-Old Buta Singh
Buta Singh was a well-established veteran in the Congress and eased out after swirling corruption allegations that involved family members. And yet, the Congress re-inducts him. -- This feed and its...
View ArticleIndia's Sugar Export Plans May Be An Epic Fail
India's bid to compel producers to export millions of tonnes of surplus sugar will fail without significant subsidies or at least penalties for failing to comply, trade and industry sources told...
View ArticleDadri Lynching Incident Blame Has To Fall Entirely On Modi: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Contributing editor to The Indian Express and President, Centre For Policy Research, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, excoriates BJP MP Tarun Vijay on the editorial pages of the paper and laments that the MP's...
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Squeamish Government Moots Restricting Condom Ads To 'Late Night Hours'
First the government came for pornography and the brouhaha caused it to backtrack. Now, the Telegraph finds that the Centre is examining a proposal to confine television ads for condoms to late-night...
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Delhi CM Kejriwal Stopped From Entering Fractious Dadri Village
Delhi CM, Arvind Kejriwal claimed to be waylaid by Uttar Pradesh's police and administration and prevented from entering Bisada village in Dadri when he and his AAP colleagues went to visit Mohammad...
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Gold Makes Year's Biggest One Day Comeback
Snapping its five-day falling streak, gold rebounded by Rs 660, its biggest one-day surge this year, to trade at Rs 26,810 per ten grams at the bullion market today. The precious metal, after five...
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Dadri Lynching: Local BJP Leader's Son, UP Homeguards Constable Reportedly...
The son of a local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and an Uttar Pradesh Homeguards constable were reportedly arrested by the police for their alleged complicity in the grisly lynching of a Muslim...
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Malegaon Blasts: Ex Prosecutor Salian Outs Suhas Warke As Officer Who...
Rohini Salian, former special public prosecutor for the 2008 Malegaon blast case and who'd accused the National Investigation Agency of forcing her to 'go soft' on those accused in the case, has...
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India Lashes Back At Pakistan Over Statements About Kasuri Row, Says It...
NEW DELHI -- Responding to Islamabad's statement over the 'disruption of events organised for prominent Pakistani personalities in India', the Centre lashed out saying it does not need a 'lecture' as...
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India Dismayed At The Lack Of Transparency In UN Peace Operations
UNITED NATIONS -- India has expressed its strong dismay at the lack of accountability and transparency in the framing of peacekeeping mandates by the UN Security Council, saying this "failing" by the...
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