The death on Monday of Aruna Shanbaug, the nurse who lived in a vegetative state in a Mumbai hospital for 42 long years, has renewed the debate on euthanasia, with some demanding that the judiciary and the government should engage on the issue proactively...
"Modi had promised the countrymen to bring in 'Achhe Din' (good days), but has failed miserably, Janata Dal (United) president Sharad Yadav told IANS in an interview....
If you were asked to respond "Yes/No" to the above question, there is every likelihood that, apart from some good humoured jokes about women and decision making, your response would emphatically be in the affirmative. The uncomfortable fact is that you probably believe that women are incapable of making smart decisions....
With the rise in digital technology, the human attention span has shortened from 12 seconds to eight seconds in more than a decade, a recent study by Microsoft Corporation has found....
Seven years after the deed was done, the new Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary, Sitaram Yechury, has confessed that his party made a mistake by withdrawing support from the Manmohan Singh government on the India-US nuclear deal in 2008. ...
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Dr. Manoj Vora, who climbed Mount Everest in 2013 on his second attempt, has started a campaign to rebuild the village of Kurima, near Mt. Everest in Nepal, which was flattened in the devastating earthquake. “They helped me to reach the summit and it is my turn to help them. Only 32 families live there,†Dr. Vora, a physician at the L...
The thoughts and ideas of Indian diplomats who have collectively put in more than 1,150 years in the Indian Foreign Service, understanding the ins and out of wealth creation, a story of a Parsi man and an exciting tale about the battle between man and nature: this is what IANS has to offer to its readers this ...
But he has not been spared from within. Critical voices within his party and the sangh parivar have begun to raise their decibel level....
As Greenpeace India struggles to stay afloat, the real reason why the government wants to shut down the global environmental NGO hasn’t got much attention: Coal, the single biggest source of primary energy in India, is at the heart of the Narendra Modi government’s ambitious plans to ramp up industrial production in the country....