Yearly Archives: 2015
Young Australian couple harassed for sporting tattoo of Hindu goddess in Bengaluru, forced to...
October 19, 2015
Bengaluru: In a disturbing incident, a group of people harassed an Australian couple at a restaurant in Bengaluru on Saturday.
Delhi needs more fast track courts for crimes against women: Kejriwal
October 19, 2015
NEW DELHI – Delhi needs more fast track courts to deal with crimes against women, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday.
After J&K ink attack, President Pranab Mukherjee calls for tolerance in India
October 19, 2015
Birbhum: Amidst a wave of rising intolerance, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday expressed serious apprehensions over whether tolerance and acceptance of dissent are on the wane in the country.
Bihar election: Will voters ignore the Hindutva effect and trust BJP’s development plank?
October 19, 2015
BIHAR – It is an irony the BJP leaders can't but grimace at. No longer under the compulsion of having to dilute their agenda, because of the party winning a majority in the Lok Sabha last year, they now find the continuous cycle of state elections complicating the implementation of hot-button Hindutva issues.
Defence relationship between India, US ‘stands on its own’: US Ambassador to India Richard...
October 19, 2015
Chennai: The defence relationship between India and US "stands on its own" and the impact of this association from a strategic point of view besides others is to "increase peace and stability and prosperity," a top envoy of that country said on Sunday.
ODI 3: Virat Kohli’s heroics in vain as Morne Morkel bowls South Africa to...
October 18, 2015
Brief Scorecard: South Africa 270 for 7 (de Kock 103, Mohit 2-62) beat India 252 for 6 (Kohli 77, Rohit 65, Morkel 4-39) by 18 runs
Morne Morkel exults after picking up a wicket, India v South Africa, 3rd ODI, Rajkot, October 18, 2015 © BCCI
12 Things You Should Never Do on Airplanes
October 18, 2015
Airplane interior
You already know what not to do on a plane if you don't want to be a giant jerk.
Meet Salim, a Muslim man in-charge of Durga Puja celebrations for 23 years in...
October 18, 2015
Raigarh (Chhattisgarh): In a unique example of communal harmony, a Muslim man has been presiding over Durga Puja celebrations in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district for the past 23 years.
Sheikh Salim Niyariya, a 50-year-old Congress Corporator, has been managing 'Handi Chowk Durga Committee' at Handi Chowk area in Raigarh since 1992.
When APJ Abdul Kalam got a hotline call just before Agni missile launch!
October 18, 2015
New Delhi: Just hours before the Agni missile was to be tested in 1989, its pioneer APJ Abdul Kalam received a hotline phone call from a top government official indicating tremendous pressure by the US and NATO to delay the launch.
The man on the other end was none other than TN Seshan, the then cabinet secretary to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
‘Giant alien megastructure found in space’: What is a Dyson sphere, and what else...
October 17, 2015
Scientists have spotted strange changes in light deep in space — which some claim might be a huge alien power station.
