Raising a strong voice against human trafficking - which is an organised crime in India violating basic human rights - young activists, change-makers and minister here on Tuesday urged everyone to be more vocal on such issues and shatter all stereotypes....
Hitherto, the thousands of Indians who had migrated to Britain in the wake of the partition of the sub-continent had lived in silence, perhaps wanting to bury the ghosts of the past as they sought to make a new life. Two years ago, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Kavita Puri produced a three-part series, "Partition Voices" for BBC...
Title: Rivers Remember -- #ChennaiRains; Author: Krupa Ge; Publisher: Context/Westland Publications; Pages: 218; Price: Rs 499...
There is a quantum leap in derisive mirth that stand-up comedians on both sides of the Atlantic are generating ever since a Donald Trump look-alike entered the black door at 10, Downing Street. In fact, if Boris Johnson disciplined the outside of his head with a touch of Brylcream that would confirm a twin-like Boris-Donald duet....
Finally, the Karnataka Government of the Congress-JDS coalition has fallen, and the reverberation from that long struggle for values and principles will be long felt across the political spectrum. The brazen attempt by the BJP to undermine the democratic process using money and manpower has once again borne ...
Researchers have developed a tool that attracts and captures female mosquitoes looking for a site to lay eggs, which in the future may help curb the chikungunya virus....
The 'fourth pillar' seems to be on shaky grounds, at least, on the Dalal Street, struggling to find a model to survive amid rapid transformation in the way the news is consumed across the world....
Researchers have found a strong link between smoking and peripheral artery disease -- a circulatory condition in which narrowed blood vessels reduce blood flow to the limbs -- and this elevated risk can persist up to 30 years after quitting smoking. ...
Set to be the new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has a close India connection. His estranged wife Marina Wheeler, whom he married in 1993, is half Indian....
A descendant of an Ottoman Turkish journalist and Russian Jewish rabbis, the Eurosceptic son of a European Commission official, and holding dual citizenship till some time back, Britain's Prime Minister-designate Boris Johnson is a politician who terms himself as "a one-man melting pot" and has twice been Mayor of one of the most cosmopoli...
