Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru’s niece, Nayantara Sahgal, an eminent writer, has returned her Sahitya Akademi Award, against what she calls “a vicious assault on India’s diversity and debate.” Nayantara Sahgal, stated her reason behind returning the award, the ‘intolerance on the rise.’ She said, she is returning the award “in memory of the Indians who have been murdered, in support of all Indians.” While speaking to NewsX, she expressed her […]

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Tuesday said saving the endangered tiger was the responsibility of all citizens of the country. Debuting as Maharashtra’s ‘Tiger Ambassador’ at a function held inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Borivali East, Bachchan expressed happiness that the tiger population in the state was much better than other states. “I shall give my best to help the forest department conserve and save the tigers in […]

India accounted for the largest number of poor people in any country in 2012, but its poverty rate was lowest among countries having large number of poor population, the World Bank said in a latest report, which uses a revised methodology for measuring poverty. “India was home to the largest number of poor in 2012, but its poverty rate is one of the lowest among those countries with the largest […]

Just because you’re no longer in school doesn’t mean you’ve got it all figured out. You’ve still got plenty of important skills left to master – but now you’re on your own. To help you navigate this confusing time, we reviewed several Quora threads on helpful skills and ways to spend time in your 20s and 30s and highlighted the most useful insights. Just because you’re no longer in school […]

Kainchi Dham is a small temple complex situated on the banks of the Kosi, a river in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand. The place came to limelight after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the last week’s townhall meet, that Steve Jobs had recommended he visit Neem Karoli Baba’s (Maharajji) ashram in Kainchi. Zuckerberg visited the ashram at a time when he and Facebook were going […]

In a way, the trailer of Salman Khan’s next film Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is slightly deceptive. For the first 40 to 45 seconds of the trailer, you’ll see some beautiful shots of colourful palaces which look a lot like the ones in Rajasthan while a female singer sings beautiful lines, giving the trailer a mysterious feel. Could it be? Could the word ‘mysterious’ actually be used to describe a […]

  Parineeti Chopra, Kalki Koechlin, Richa Chadha, Rhea Chakraborty, Bhumi Pednekar and Shweta Tripathi are among some names of the Hindi film industry who feature in a multi-starrer web-series Man’s World, made in support of UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development campaign. Other names who will be seen in the series are Pritish Nandy, Soni Razdan, Shruti Seth, Aditi Singh Sharma, Cyrus Sahukar, Meiyang Chang, Anupama Chopra, Aditi Mittal, Naveen […]

Washington: Before Narendra Modi’s visit to the Facebook headquarters, activists from a group which identified themselves as Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA), set up a website called www.zuckwashyourhands.com . The website exhorted people to send Mark Zuckerberg bottles of hand sanitiser Purell, suggesting that the PM Modi’s hands are still tainted from the blood of the Muslims who died in the 2002 riots. If Zuckerberg shakes hands with Modi, […]

Spread across the dusty old Khajuraho town in Madhya Pradesh, its temples don’t just represent architectural finesse and stand as chronicles of time, but also contribute to a large extent to the way India is perceived by the rest of the world – as the land of the Kamasutra, although the book was written much ahead of time. As one visits these temples, one is overwhelmed by not just the […]

Yesterday, Panjab police arrived in large numbers and cordoned off Bapu Surat Singh’s home in Hassanpur. An ambulance remained outside until the early hours of the night, increasing the threat that Bapu Ji may once again be forcibly removed and taken to hospital. Since January 16, 2015, Surat Singh Khalsa, an 83-year-old activist, has been on a fast-unto-death seeking release of Sikh prisoners who have completed their full jail terms […]