On Monday, August 29, a court in Saran, Bihar, sentenced the headmistress of the school where 23 children died after eating a mid-day meal to 17 years in prison. Three years after that tragedy, discovers Satyavrat Mishra, the state government has failed to learn its lessons.
'The Pakistan government, we were told, has a plan to renovate several Hindu temples and Buddhist sites, which over the years have fallen into disrepair. The aim is to create a pilgrimage circuit to attract visitors from all over the subcontinent.'
Railways must pull back its share of freight traffic.
Brilliant cinema at the ongoing Mumbai Film Festival, raves Sukanya Verma.
I-T lens on current account deposits over Rs 12.5 lakh. All the news and more post demonetisation.
Three Indian Air Force officers captured as Prisoners of War by Pakistan during the '71 War made a daring escape from a Rawalpindi jail. M P Anil Kumar recounts that heroic story.
Read the full transcript of President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday at the US Capitol in Washington.
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