Ancient rock sculptures discovered in Maharashtra
byMumbai: Rock sculptures dating back to between 4,000-7,000 BC have been found in a well-preserved condition in the forests near Kudopi village in Sindhudurg…
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Dolphins shot, mutilated in US Gulf
byWashington: Mutilated dolphins, some with gunshot wounds, tails cut off and missing jaws have recently been discovered along the Gulf Coast of the US, as…
‘Indian English has an identity of its own’
byNew Delhi: English is fast developing a dynamism all its own in the non-English-speaking world, says former Indian Administrative Service officer, writer and noted theatre…
Pochampally’s sari weavers struggle to survive
byPochampally: Pera Kamalana sits in a small room of her house, spinning the dyed yarn that will bring alive beautiful ikat designs on the…
India’s first disabled skydiver now heads to Antarctica
byNew Delhi: Sai Prasad Vishwanathan, India’s first disabled skydiver who has since childhood suffered a loss of sensation in the lower half of his…
Wild elephant dies of hooch in Uttarakhand
byDehradun: Elephants in the forests of Uttarakhand have been known to fall to poachers, tusk smugglers, die of old age or in fight for…
Badrinath shrine today closes for winters
byDehradun : The Badrinath shrine, one of the most important Hindu temples, located at a height of over 3500 metres in Uttarakhand, will close…
Uttarakhand hospital apathy – body decays in toilet
byDehradun : In an incident that should make the Uttarakhand government in general and the health department in particular hang down its head in…
Bal Thackeray: The tiger roars no more
byMumbai: You loved him, you hated him, but you never could ignore him. That was Bal Keshav Thackeray, a fierce proponent of Hindu supremacism in…
Two key witness turn hostile – Virbhadra CD Case further weakened
byShimla: The corruption case slapped on former chief minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh weakened further as two high profile prosecution witnesses…