Pinki Haryan, who once begged for food, is now a qualified doctor. With the help from a Tibetan monk and charitable trust, she pursued educ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the installation of the idol of Ram Lalla at the grand temple on January 22. The Sri Ram Janmabhoo...

Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh, an organisation synonymous with public toilets and fighting open defecation in India, passed away...

Nitish Kumar introduced the Mahadalit umbrella in 2007 after the Bihar State Mahadalit Commission recommended inclusion of 18 scheduled cas...

Now, more of India Inc should be a catalyst for social development in India.

There are certain heirloom items that paint an entire community’s culinary practice.

For your next holiday, visit the big five of the ocean i.e. whale sharks, giant manta rays, humpback whales, dolphins and tiger sharks.

Gandhi and Mevani had half-an-hour closed-door meeting at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Navsari.

Will Adityanath abide by established contours as CM? Or will he seek to change it to his preference? His choice is the gamble the BJP has t...

A district in the UK now threatens to fine anyone caught walking a dog without a plastic bag to pick up.

Most Dalit commentators say that they view this as evidence of BJP’s lack of commitment towards Dalits despite overtures made by Modi in 20...

A law that forbade children under 14 to be employed has now bent itself a little and allows them to work in family-run enterprises.

Earlier, senior party leader and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the party would be organising a series of mass contact programmes in th...

When I lived in Singapore I thought the city republic was obsessively clean — until I visited the Little India neighbourhood.

The good news is that the title of this column is not 'One hundred days of lassitude'. We have a government that appears to be working, war...

Civets belong to the Viverridae family and are arboreal creatures who often find ashelter in air conditioner ducts.

Speaking from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Singh hoped that GDP growth would be a "little better" than the 6.5% achieved last year.