India, Sept. 20 -- When You Are Old isnot among WB Yeats's most admired poems. The Second Comingis. No surprises there, because miseries -war, pestilence, natural disasters - have been visiting the wo... Read More
India, Sept. 20 -- I wonder how many of you are following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise currently underway? I ask because it could affect your right to vote. Some of the facts that hav... Read More
India, Sept. 20 -- History moves in cycles, and nowhere is this truer than in the movement for women's rights. Mihira Sood's debut book, Courting Equality: Landmark cases in the battle for women's rig... Read More
India, Sept. 20 -- After a decade of free transactions, a 0.4% fee will be charged for payments above Rs.2,000 made to businesses. This Merchant Discount Rate will help run the world's largest payment... Read More
India, Sept. 20 -- What are the various things a kiss can mean? Over time, it has served as a token of peace, of loyalty, and of betrayal. It has helped win votes, and been part of what today seem lik... Read More
Lucknow, Sept. 20 -- Vir Chakra awardee Flight Lieutenant Alfred Tyrone Cooke, who shot down a Pakistani Sabre during a 1965 dogfight over Kalaikunda and was credited with driving away other enemy air... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- The monsoon began withdrawing from parts of west Rajasthan on Saturday, two days later than the normal date of September 17, IMD said, adding that conditions were favourable for... Read More
New DELHI, Sept. 20 -- Domestic LPG consumers will have to complete biometric Aadhaar authentication to book refills at the regulated retail selling price with applicable subsidy from October 1, the g... Read More
Bhopal, Sept. 20 -- Eight people, of whom were seven were of a family from Odisha, were killed after the car they were travelling in from Ujjain to Nalkheda fell into a drain overflowing with rainwate... Read More
Kolkata, Sept. 20 -- The Congress's Nandigram bypoll candidate Milan Pradhan was sent to judicial custody till October 3 on Saturday, a day after he was arrested in four murder cases during the 2007 a... Read More