Ephemeral describes things that last for a very short time, appearing briefly before disappearing. This adjective, originating from a Greek...

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The company refuted the allegation, saying that there was no evidence of wrongdoing.

To ensure your communication is effective, it is important to ensure you have a good grip on the language.

The pitch was made by Foreign Minister S Jaishankar at the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers meet in London on July 10-11.

“It will be a long time before Bangladesh starts to make a bigger contribution in our working.”

Salami slicing means small, stealth military operations against neighbouring countries which accumulate over time in a large territorial ga...

Reserve Bank of India employees and officers would observe mass casual leave on November 19 pan-India despite the plan being labelled as "i...

The issue of frisking of MPs could come up at an emergency meeting of the Committee on Security in Parliament Complex on Monday.

Karnataka is the first state to go to the polls since Modi and Rahul Gandhi soft-launched their campaigns by making their cases in front of...

Chidambaram’s budget 2013 will mean that India will have to curb some very important development assistance programmes in several countries.

Applied to life, the intelligent seeker would realise the value of consistency in all he does.

There should be no reason, then, to think that the 1,40,000-tonne asteroid called DA14, is the harbinger of the ancient Mayan doomsday pred...

Much can be said both with regard to the importance of money making in life and also on limiting one’s requirements. Doubtless, feverish an...

Controversy may end up polarising UP & giving BJP chance to do better.

Summing up various issues on worthwhile living, as dealt with in greater detail earlier in these columns, certain particular aspects would ...

One of the countries that least impinges on the Indian mindspace is Canada - that vast space north of the US.