Children sitting inside cement water pipes play on the Marina beach in Chennai. Photograph: Babu/Reuters Sixty-five years after untouchability was abolished, one in four Indians admit to......
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Saturday said the coal issue will soon fade away from public memory as happened in case of Bofors. "Earlier the Bofors was a talking point. People forgot......
Well-known Marathi poet Narayan Surve, who passed away on Monday at the age of 83, was a social activist who put the voice of Mumbai's working class in Marathi literature. Aisa Ga Mee Brahma......
R R Patil, home minister and deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, has a reputation as one of the most honest and decent men in contemporary politics. Even Anna Hazare and Medha Patkar, both......
Polling for the two Maharashtra Legislative Assembly bypolls started in constituencies of Naigaum in Mumbai and Srivardhan in Raigad Thursday morning at 0800 hours. The two constituencies fell......
Faadu: A Love Story looks like one of those old movies with a socialist bent that glorified honest poverty and looked down upon ambition and enterprise, notes Deepa Gahlot. That slang word in the......
Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan was adjudged best actor for the The Legend Of Bhagat Singh in the 50th National Film Awards, while Konkona Sen Sharma bagged the best actress award for her performance......