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Delhi HC raps official over casual affidavit on NCM posts timeline

New Delhi, March 21 -- The Delhi High Court on Friday criticised a deputy secretary in the Centre's ministry of minority affairs for adopting a casual approach in filing an affidavit regarding the tim... Read More


HC pulls up Centre for inaction on '24 order on 'unnatural' sex

New Delhi, March 21 -- The Delhi High Court on Friday expressed displeasure over the Centre's delay in taking a holistic view on the exclusion of penalties for "unnatural sex" and "sodomy" under the B... Read More


Rally driver missing, Singhania injured in Maldives boat mishap

Mumbai, March 21 -- Industrialist Gautam Singhania was airlifted to Mumbai after suffering minor injuries in a speedboat accident in the Maldives, while ace Indian rally driver Hari Singh, 59, remains... Read More


ED attaches Rs.5k-cr assets in PACL probe

New Delhi, March 21 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED), in one of its largest single attachment orders, has attached assets worth Rs.5,046 crore in connection with its money laundering probe against ... Read More


Joyce in Raigarh, Bibiji in Rangoon

India, March 21 -- "We may not have read two books - but at least our underarms are fair and fragrant." Thus goes one of the many wayward remarks of Avtar Kaur, also known as Bibiji. She lives in her ... Read More


Tales from the Indian zombie tradition

India, March 21 -- Young King Vikramaditya is tasked with transporting a Vetala that hangs from a tree in an abandoned cemetery. Vikramaditya cuts down the corpse, throws it over his shoulder and star... Read More


Of ker sangri, gatte ki sabzi and more

India, March 21 -- Chef Sameer Gupta has shaped Rajasthani cuisine for decades. He has curated grand destination weddings and organised cooking classes. Through his students and patrons, he has shaped... Read More


'To be fact-based, we have to be fair to all sides'

India, March 21 -- 1The far Right in the United States has called out biases within Wikipedia. What would you say to this? Whenever there's any kind of criticism, what we need to do is to be transpare... Read More


Portrait of a marriage

India, March 21 -- The Nayi Kahani movement in Hindi literature, which emerged in the 1950s and '60s, focused on interpersonal relationships, urban life, and the dilemmas of the middle class. One lite... Read More


The fault line that is oil

India, March 21 -- The latest round of attacks, by US-Israel on Iran's gas fields and by Iran on Qatar's hydrocarbon infrastructure, along with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran, underscores... Read More