Railway stations are fascinating places. It might be because they have withstood everything from wars to urban development. It might be because of their historic buildings that inspire writers to weave stories around them. It might also be due to the train journey itself, an exciting adventure to foreign lands or a return to familiar settings. Whatever it is, railway stations aren’t just transportation hubs; they are places that take […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented nothing short of a mini-rural budget in his much-hyped speech on New Year’s eve on national television, doling out sops targetting the poor and farmers. The package included interest subventions on small ticket home loans (up to Rs 12 lakhs), 60-day interest rate waiver on farm loans taken from cooperative banks, higher credit limit and government guarantee for small traders. Some good news indeed in […]

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Prime minister Narendra Modi  is addressing the nation in a television broadcast on the New Year’s Eve. In his speech, he has highlighted the performance of his government in 2016 and also outlined the priority areas for 2017. The following are the excerpts of his speech: – PM Modi concludes his speech. – As we welcome the New Year, lets come together to build a bright future of the country: PM Modi […]

The world’s highest bridge has opened to traffic in China, connecting two provinces in the mountainous southwest and reducing travel times by as much as three-quarters, local authorities said Friday. The Beipanjiang Bridge soars 565 metres (1,854 feet) above a river and connects the two mountainous provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, the Guizhou provincial transport department said in a statement on its official website. The bridge cut travel times between […]

“Sabhi padheb to ladeb kaun”(if everyone starts reading then who will fight), a stranger asked Ashok Kumar Yadav mockingly while he was selling books at a Maoist infested village in Chattisgarh. But that could not diminish his spirit of reaching out to the people in far-flung rural areas with books. Yadav is a part of the mobile book exhibition team of National Book Trust (NBT). He has been travelling from […]

It could pay for a micro-irrigation programme to bring water to thousands of farmers over two years; pay for new rural roads seven times over; electricity projects five times over; restore 300 medieval forts in Maharashtra. But the Maharashtra government, on October 26, started work on the world’s tallest statue – of medieval Maratha monarch Shivaji – off Mumbai’s coast and intends to spend Rs 3,600 crore, at current estimates. […]

A goal is one of the most powerful driving forces in life. Goals drive us to move ahead. They make us feel purposeful, happier and healthier. Without clear, written goals about what we want to do in life, we would be lost. Here are a few powerful strategies you can use to achieve your goals once you have clearly identified them and written them down: 1. Write Down Your Goals […]

December 25, marked 92 years of Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s momentous life journey. His story is the life history of a personality who has lived Indian civilisation, culture and politics in every breath that he has taken. I’d like to begin with a personal experience. Many residents of Jammu appeared perplexed on the afternoon of January 25, 1992. A large number of outsiders had begun to converge on the city for […]

In November, as millions of Indians were grappling with a cashflow crisis, a lavish wedding in the southern city of Bangalore sparked outrage. The BBC’s Geeta Pandey profiles the man a behind the wedding, the father of the bride, businessman and ex-state minister Gali Janardhana Reddy. Five days after the government scrapped 500 and 1,000 rupee notes in a crackdown on illegal money, Rumah Rasaque spent most of her Sunday […]