To suit the present times, mythology has its own interpretations by present generation writers. Read this unknown side of Shakuntala, a little different from what the Mahabharata had to say. Also to read are tales on the Allahabad of yore and of underage CEOs who are raising their ideas into caree...
With the ban on beef in some states and the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha triggering a fierce debate on cow slaughter across the country, a group of Islamic scholars in southern India has appealed to Muslims to avoid sacrificing cows, bulls and bullocks in the community's larger interest....
The recently-concluded World Hindi Conference in Bhopal was conducted by people with "obvious party affiliations" which left out noted Hindi writers, Hindi media persons and students, says a veteran journalist and noted writer....
Locked in a political tussle to take on the mantle of Dalit leadership ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief and union minister Ram Vilas Paswan has emerged a clear winner over former chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) president Jitan Ram Manjhi....
Even after seven months since India's gross domestic product (GDP) data was unveiled under a new series, the controversy over the changed methodology employed by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) refuses to die down with economists even terming it obscure....
The Ramayana and the Gita are not religious texts and should be taught in schools, according to union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma....
Maharashtra Governor C. V. Rao launched the birth centenary celebrations of legendary vocalist and classical singer M.S. Subbulakshmi at a function here late on Sunday night....
The intolerance does not grow in one field of social life in isolation. In different arena of our life it tends to run in a parallel manner....
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. ...
