A once-barren northern Maharashtra town, which has turned into a model-town and drawn global attention for its unique achievements, was visited by Miss World 2014 Rolene Strauss and Miss England 2015 Carina Tyrrell this week....
Days after his comments terming the World War I mass killings of Armenians "genocide" incensed Turkey, Pope Francis on Thursday claimed those who shunned dialogue wanted to stifle debate....
The change of the policy seems to be guided by BJP’s parent organization, RSS whose political ideology is Hindu nationalism in contrast to the values of Indian Constitution, the one of Indian Nationalism. To give an indication of the same RSS Chief (Sarsanghchalak) stated (March 3, 2015) that Indian history should be saffronised. To back him u...
Neanderthals from the French region of Poitou-Charentes cut, beat and fractured the bones of their recently deceased companions, as revealed by the fossil remains of two adults and a child found at the Marillac site....
A Japanese sculptor and graphic artist accused of public obscenity for distributing 3D copies of her vagina pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in the first session of her trial....
Social activist Aruna Roy on Tuesday called for a public protest against Shiv Sena's demand for revoking Muslims' voting rights, terming it as an "attack" on the constitution that could potentially result in a civil war....
Former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Tuesday criticized attempts by various parties, especially of the right, to take the legacy of B.R. Ambedkar saying he would have found 'Ghar Vapsi' "abhorrent to the ethos of India"....
As we came out of the Beijing airport terminal, I noisily inhaled the air, which invited the attention of others in the group. I told them, when they looked at me amusedly, that I was doing in style my first smelling of China. They laughed. I also told them that it was my way of proclaiming to the world that a drea...
From a dark depiction of the "omnipresent stench", the people dwelling in concrete pipes and damning criticism of the city's culture of hero worship to a philanthropic reachout to its marginalized people like ragpickers - Gunter Grass' 40-year-old association with Kolkata had multiple shades....
