As a young journalist working in Delhi, I find it always irritating to face the frequent question from people – even strangers – about my being a Kashmiri. The questioners seem to believe that Kashmir is a hotbed of terrorist violence with gunfire resounding all through the day and night and that people of the […]
In a meeting with heads of commercial banks here on Friday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday asked banks which have not passed on to borrowers the interest rate cuts made by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) this year to do so over the next few weeks. A finance ministry release after the meeting […]
Actress Preeti Gupta, whose film “Unfreedom” touches upon homosexuality, has come out to support a new advertisement which looks at lesbian relationships in a refreshing way. She says it’s a step towards representation of the community in the mainstream media. Reacting to the advertisement by fashion app Myntra, she said in a statement: “I think […]
Ayush Minister Shripad Yesso Naik on Thursday appealed to the Muslim community to participate in the International Yoga Day in a big way and said people who do not want to chant ‘Om’ can say ‘Allah’. Naik told IANS after his meeting with a delegation of Muslim leaders on Thursday that they have extended full […]
Chandigarh is India’s ‘Happiest City’ while Delhi is the country’s ‘Happiest Metro’, a study commissioned by multinational electronics company LG has found. Happiness is the most important aspect of life for people across the country, compared to respect, trust, success or recognition, LG Life’s Good Happiness Study revealed. Chandigarh, Lucknow, Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru are […]
In what can be a scene straight from Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece “Psycho”, police have come across a man who has been living with the corpse of his sister and two dead dogs for the past six months in Kolkata. Police stumbled on the skeletons on Wednesday night while investigating the death of Arabinda De, the […]
India’s northeastern states are now the most unsafe conflict theatre for security forces with 41 deaths this year. These states accounted for 23 deaths of security personnel in 2014, according to data compiled by the South Asia Terrorism Portal. Eighteen Indian Army soldiers were killed and 11 injured in Manipur’s Chandel district in a terrorist […]
After a decade of breeding three species of vultures that are listed as critically endangered, the Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (Save) programme is all set to take wing with the first release in the wild of the captive-bred birds next year. Before their release, Save is focussing on creating “safe zones” for them to […]
An inimitable assemblage of rare black and white stills of Indian film legends Satyajit Ray, Uttam Kumar and Nargis; vintage posters from celluloid classics like “Antony Firingee” and limited edition merchandise are upholding the spirit of Indian cinema at a five-day exhibition that began here on Wednesday. Christened ‘Salaam Cinema’, the event showcases film stills […]
A debt-ridden farmer, who met Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on April 28 after his crops were destroyed by unseasonal rain, committed suicide on Wednesday by consuming poison, his son said. Surjit Singh, 60, of Dadumajra village near Chunni Kalan in Fategarh Sahib had a debt of Rs.13.50 lakh. “Our wheat crop was destroyed by […]