While so-called 'cow protectors' have indulged in widespread vigilantism under the garb of protection of cattle, there has been little effort to save them from the real threat to their survival -- urban garbage, open dumps and apathy of cow owners.
The readouts by the Indian and Chinese sides on the meeting on Monday between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow bring out that divergences are crowding into the centrestage of their relationship, says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
India has just had one of the worst quarters in export earnings.
A red fox in a derelict schoolroom, a Bengal Tiger in the forests of Bhutan and walruses are just a few of animals featured in the photos shortlisted for this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year. While we wait for the results to be announced, here are some of the contenders in the contest.
Kaanchi must have read important on paper but it's complete baloney on celluloid, rants Sukanya Verma.
Is it just the glamour?
'The Congress has become two distinct parties, one of the durbar, the other of the field and if they keep drifting apart, death is a certainty,' says Shekhar Gupta.
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A country as diverse as India has some of the strangest rituals and traditions. From bizarre ways to cure illnesses to an unusual matrimony to please the rain gods...the things people do here must be seen to be believed.
When they're not busy trying to protect their female staff from sexual harassment by over-friendly customers, hotels have to cope with harassment of a different kind -- thievery.
COP 21 is about how much carbon space is left and who gets how much of that space
Looking at how the idea of gift giving and taking on Diwali has changed
Two young dhaakad designers tell us why they want to dress up the First Lady of Bollywood.
The movie evokes a few laughs but otherwise it decides to shift tracks from droll comedy to dreadful drama.
Kisan Baburao Hazare is supporting Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress and attempts are afoot to form an alternative Third Front. Will these alliances really work, asks Bharat Bhushan.
Lawyer turned entrepreneur Parama Ghosh shares her story.
'It is a diamond which has a very long competitive history.'
Bring out your earthenware and clay pots, don your apron and get cooking!
Pavan Malhotra, one of our finest actors, shows us another side of Bollywood.
