Eating churmurAt the heart of this delight on a plate lies the crumbly shell of the phuchka, or pani puri, but here churmur-ed - literally smashed to smi...
Three types of givingSuch unrestricted and overflowing giving is the true form of giving. A beggar once came to the door of Thomas Carlyle, when he was a boy. H...
Japanese popstar Joji announces new album ‘Smithereens’, shares its first single. See more details‘Smithereens’ is the third album of Japanese music sensation Joji. The album marks the singer’s return after two years. Joji will begin the...
IAF air strike: Mirages took off from Gwalior, not forward base, to retain surpriseThe operation kicked off just after 2 am, with the Mirage-2000s from their home-base of Gwalior taking to the skies during the "graveyard s...
Time to strike inside Pakistan: Uddhav Thackeray on Pulwama attackAfter surgical strikes of 2016, it is now time to "strike inside Pakistan", he said, talking to reporters here.
Seven CRPF men killed in Dantewada landmine blast, weapons lootedSeven CRPF men were killed and their weapons looted after Naxals carried out a deadly landmine blast on their vehicle in the jungles of the...
Practicality over ambition? How the British Museum and CSMVS curated over 200 artefacts for an exhibit in MumbaiSome artefacts that the British Museum wanted to display in Mumbai were too fragile for transportation.
When sticks & stones could cause hurtSurvival of animosities that outlast their begetters creates a new demand for iron and steel in a world with excess capacity for those comm...
Rajya Sabha to discuss forced religious conversions on WednesdayAs Opposition members again raised the issue of forced conversions of Muslims in Agra and threat of repeating the same with Christians in A...
Saviour of yogaIyengar was the embodiment of compassion with his all-too-ready laugh and jokes which he made with stinging slaps rapidly delivered to your...
Beyond BotoxOn Valentine’s Day, Bridget Jones’s Diary is on TV at dinnertime. “Don’t be fooled by outward appearances” is its punchline.
Anti-Naxal operations: CRPF grounds mine-protected vehiclesCRPF has stopped using mine-protected vehicles (MPVs) deployed for carrying troops to minimise causalities resulting from IED blasts.
Great IronyWhat is doubly more ironic, at the very start of hostilities, is that Arjuna, the greatest warrior of them all, wants to quit being fully a...
- BJP using shoulders of Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdev to garner power: Congress
With the BJP unrelenting in its demand for PM's resignation in the wake of CAG report, Cong said BJP was using Hazare & Ramdev in its game ...
- BJP-JD (U) close to three fourth majority in Bihar
The Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP alliance on Wednesday headed for a three-fourth majority in Bihar, bagging 175 of the 243 Assembly seats and...
- Planter's punch
Incensed plant lovers should consider forming an association.
- ULFA bomb kills one, sets off gas cylinders
A man was killed and over 30 others were injured, five of them seriously, when a bomb planted in an auto-van by the ULFA exploded.