The unique aspects of Indo-Trinidadian culture need to be branded and marketed to promote tourism and thereby achieve economic growth and development, said an expert at an event here to mark the 170th anniversary celebrations of the arrival of Indians in Trinidad and Tobago....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has performed much better than his predecessor in handling China. Those were the views of former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal and former ambassador T.P. Sreenivasan at an event here Wednesday evening....
In a recent Lok Sabha session, Rahul Gandhi, Vice-President of the Indian National Congress accused the Modi Government of trying to carve out the ‘Net and hand it over to the corporates. According to him, over one million people are fighting for net neutrality on various social media platforms. Obviously, Mr. Gandhi w...
The five glitzy offshore casinos anchored in the Mandovi river, which are now contemporary landmarks in the state's capital, will be shifted upriver to other locations, even as an anti-corruption outfit claimed that five more casinos could soon be given operating licences....
If you are a girl — educated and from an economically stable family — from an urban area, either Jain, Christian or upper-caste Hindu, the chances are you will not be married before adulthood (18 years), according to a new report....
An extremely powerful telescope on Earth has revealed in detail a huge lava lake on Io - the innermost of the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Italian scientist and scholar Galileo (Galilei) in 1610....
Researchers from the University of Houston have created an optical lens that can be placed on smartphone to magnify images and provide schools and clinics a low-cost alternative to the conventional equipment....
For years, scientists have struggled to explain how India could have drifted northward so quickly. Now, geologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have unearthed India's rapid move toward Eurasia 80 million years ago that later gave rise to the Himalayas....
Their mantra is to strike a balance between the built and natural environments, but an American landscape architect is using that very thinking to provide to sex workers in India new careers in textile and design production. ...
It was my last day in Shanghai. The group I had been traveling with had already left for the U.S. I had decided to stay back for two more days, hoping to explore more of Shanghai, this time all by myself. I wanted to explore more of the Bund and the areas surrounding it. Some of the travel brochures I browsed tout the Bund...