Lucknow:  From calling BJP leader L.K. Advani honest to billing Congress leaders “cheats” and “conspirators”, the Samajwadi Party (SP) is steadily upping the ante against the Congress. And on Holi, Samajwadi party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s renewed attack appeared to hint that his party’s love-hate relationship with the Congress could snap [...]

New Delhi: It took Ravi Kalra, now 44, almost 20 years to finally set up an NGO and do what he always wanted to do – make Delhi a better place to live in. Six years later he is at peace, despite his family deserting him, vexed by his devotion [...]

New Delhi: Five years since the busting of a thriving racket in human kidneys in Gurgaon, where unsuspecting poor people would have their kidneys removed without their consent, a “huge disparity” between demand and supply of organs for transplant continues to promote a black market in kidneys, says doctors. Medical professionals [...]

For the next eight months Indian cricketers can relax and savour the best ever series victory in their 80-year Test history against an Australian team dubbed the worst in recent memory. Without getting unduly excited about the team’s showing, can we honestly say the series against Australia has enhanced the [...]

Gurgaon: From asking dieticians to draw up cafeteria menus to conducting counselling sessions to keep them fit, multinational companies and others are becoming mindful about their employees’ health, given the steady rise in lifestyle diseases affecting their workforce. “It’s no longer just my prerogative to shed the tyre around my belly. [...]

New Delhi: It was a daring middle-of-the night heist that has left Delhi Police baffled as the stolen goods are not jewellery or cash, but around 150 homing pigeons! “Who has stolen my pigeons? I don’t know why my pigeons were stolen. Why were they targeted?” laments Shabbir Mohammad, whose pigeons [...]

If the communists were the Manmohan Singh government’s bugbear during the first term of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) when they were its allies, then the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is perhaps one of its most irksome partners now. But there’s a difference. While the Left was driven by anti-American [...]

Bangalore: Scarred by scandal after scandal, Karnataka’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is roping in Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to help it retain power even though he did not make much of an impact the last time he campaigned in the state. Flush with another victory in Gujarat and [...]

We should not forget that the movie is not all about scaring hell out of people but something out of box that hasn’t been experimented ever before. Aatma deserves accolades for trying something imaginative but indubitably lacks a bloodcurdling soul.

On 19th March, 2013, a poetry night was organized by the Caste-Away, a part of AIESEC, world’s largest youth-run non-profit organization in Hauz Khas village, Delhi. The initiative was based on the theme of Casteism and other forms of exclusion in our society at hand, both in rural and urban [...]