Well-known journalist and TV host Anita Rani was reduced to tears during a BBC programme after discovering her family's fate in the violence that consumed India after the subcontinent's partition at the end of British rule in 1947, a media report said....
Burning all of the world's available fossil-fuel resources would result in the complete melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, leading to a 50-60-metre (160 to 200 feet) rise in sea level, a study says.
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The effervescent and age-defying Leander Paes has again done India proud. This time around, on the hard courts of the US Open, the 42-year-old legend partnered Swiss veteran Martina Hingis -- his 24th mixed doubles partner -- to beat unseeded Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 in the final....
The extension of Sonia Gandhi's term as Congress president by another year in her 17th year in the position is an admission of the party's failure to be a living, evolving, dynamic entity rather than an acknowledgement of her staying power and acceptability within the organization....
Contradicting reports of being forced to stop writing after threats from right wing groups, Malayalam literary critic M.M. Basheer said he does not succumb to such pressures....
Poor dietary habits and high blood pressure have replaced child and maternal malnutrition, unsafe water, sanitation and lack of hand washing as leading risks for death globally, a significant study has revealed....
The death of Kannada rationalist and literary scholar M.M. Kalburgi has sparked protests among people of all spheres in Karnataka. Many political leaders have drawn parallels between his death and those of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare....
Archaeologists have pieced together how the crew of the wrecked 19th century Russian-American Company sailing ship named Neva survived the harsh sub-arctic winter in Alaska....
At a time when religious discourse is coming under friction, a new book by a Stanford University historian has revealed a cultural alliance between Muslims and Hindus in early Sanskrit texts, a finding that may help ease relationships between the two religion's followers....
