'How do you expect me to tone down my anger when the most prominent culture in India today is the culture of corruption, in every sphere of life?'
the government has proposed setting up 7 new IIMs, 8 IITs. GA columnist Rashmi Bansal disussed the merits and demerits of the move.
Rashmi Bansal analyses the rationale behind the government's decision to open up more IIT and IIM institutes across the country.
Self-exiled former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto has said that she wanted to see a treaty between India and Pakistan in the 60th year of their Independence that "promises" peace for the coming generations.
Stunning moments from across India as it celebrates its 69th Independence Day
To counter the official version of history, the Communist Party of India-Marxist has decided to trace the events from the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny to India's independence through party organs like People's Democracy.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The Time magazine, which has come out with a special cover to mark the 60th anniversary of India's independence, says it is well-known that economically, India is going places.
Three top US lawmakers have asked the Congressional leadership to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint session of the US Congress when he visits Washington at the invitation of President Barack Obama.
The British tried him for leading the first war of India's Independence, which according to them was nothing short of treason, and agreed to spare his life on the condition that he would live in Burma.
'What happened in the Vajpayee era will repeat in the Modi era in 2019.'
'The nation, at this critical juncture, depends on its representatives in Parliament to ensure that decisions taken today do not inhibit our future ability to develop and pursue nuclear technologies for the benefit of the nation'
'The young people of 2006 are far more confident than the young people of 1996!'
'Is he one who defends individual liberty at all costs, or is he one who allows some give and take that recognises the primacy of the social contract, our coming together to live in a society?'
"I had never intended not contesting from Gandhinagar," senior BJP leader L K Advani said in Gandhinagar on Saturday as he arrived for filing his nomination from the Lok Sabha constituency.
Robbed of prey as people fled, Omar Perez came marching back and shot bullet after bullet into Prudhvi Raj Kandepi's head, thus ensuring that a man he had never met before, known nothing of, would never get up again.
Bollywood celebrated 70 years of Independence by telling us what it means to them, and posting interesting pictures on social media.
Inviting Canadian entrepreneurs, India has said the country is fast emerging as an attractive destination for investors in various sectors especially in energy, information technology and biotechnology.
Articulate segments of Muzaffarpur have been at the the forefront of all anti-establishment mobilisation, which makes their silence over the atrocities in a shelter home in the town puzzling. Could it be that if those accused of horrific crimes belong to dominant castes and if the victims belong to the vulnerable groups, then the middle classes become mute, asks Mohammad Sajjad.
IAF pilots would no longer have to fly deep into heavily defended airspace to strike enemy bases, they can launch a Brahmos from as far away as 295 km.
Localisation for present-generation Hyundai cars will also rise from the average 85-90 per cent.
Also: Speciality examinations to be held in various disciplines of Medical Sciences For the award of Diplomate of National Board in December.
Chittaranjan doused himself with kerosene and set himself ablaze August 15.
'While economic ties are making incremental progress, it is in the security and strategic domains that the India-Japan synergy is more compelling,' says Dr Rajaram Panda.
The Congress chief gave 'F' to the Modi government for agriculture, foreign policy and job creation, and 'A+' to the prime minister for slogan creation and self promotion.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday urged the Election Commission to declare Trinamool Congress as a 'terrorist party', upping the ante against the ruling party after political clashes in Birbhum violence left three people dead.
Among the major government sites hacked were NFR.ernet.gov.in, Hyderabadwater.gov.in, ER.railnet.gov.in and Panjabseva.gov.in
The High Commissioner of India Ronen Sen will be the chief guest at the celebrations.
'It is very hard to get the police to file a report against someone from an upper caste.' 'Things are so bad that sometimes we have to sit on a dharna with the body of a Dalit victim to get the police to file a complaint.'
'We have to find a way out of this confrontational politics.'
Indian Americans in Boston are preparing to throw a red-carpet welcome to anti-corruption crusader Annn Hazare, during his two-week visit to the United States, a kind of welcome, which has not been seen for a non-politician from India in recent times.
In the city to lead India's 70th Independence Day celebrations, M J Akbar called terrorism a major threat to human rights.
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