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IIT Madras director's cow urine remark sparks row; apology demanded

The director of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, V Kamakoti, has sparked controversy after making a remark about the "medicinal value" of cow urine, or gomutra. IMAGE: IIT-Madras......

IFS was upper caste service, more democratic now: Aiyar

Congress leader and former diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyar called the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) of yore an "upper caste" service, which he claimed is becoming more democratic now with the flavour of......

Can Bangladesh Become A Secular Nation?

Pakistan wanted to be constitutionally communal, India wanted to be secular but is communalising itself. All three nations share a penal code, but they have amended their laws to enable the State......

Election 2014: Modi versus Macaulay's ghost

The post-mandate comments that ‘darkness has descended on India’ show the kind of opposition Narendra Modi has to overcome. It is this aspirational India that is attempting to throw......

Modiji, Why Fix Laws That Ain't Broken?

The judiciary, the police, the lawyers and the public will have to know the new laws. It will also endanger settled jurisprudence on the old laws and open up all sorts of minor and major problems......

Tribunal stays Sebi's order on Franklin Templeton

Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India) on Monday said the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has stayed Sebi's order, whereby the regulator had barred the asset management firm from launching......

Franklin Templeton tries to soothe frayed nerves of investors

Allaying investors' fears, Franklin Templeton AMC has said Sebi's order prohibiting the company from launching new debt funds will have no bearing on existing schemes managed by it. Illustration:......

Sebi bars Franklin Templeton from launching new debt schemes for 2 years

Sebi on Monday barred Franklin Templeton AMC from launching any new debt scheme for two years and fined it Rs 5 crore for violating regulatory norms in the case of winding up of six debt schemes in......

Franklin Templeton AMC's senior officials, trustee fined

Sebi on Monday imposed a penalty totalling Rs 15 crore on senior officials of Franklin Templeton AMC and its trustee for violating regulatory norms in the case of winding up of six debt schemes in......

Indian incomes rose during British rule

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address on accepting an honorary degree at Oxford has been castigated by both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left for praising the British Raj.Whilst the......

Show these FUN films to your kids!

Things have never been this good for kids before. Thanks to the OTT boom, accessing cinema and classics has become easier than ever. Looking to introduce your child to films that will cultivate......

Review: Purampokku... is a compelling political thriller

Director S P Jananathan’s Purampokku Engira Podhuvudamai is an honest and compelling political thriller that debates the arbitrary nature of capital punishment against the backdrop......

Home Alone with Michael Jackson

In a new twist to the Michael Jackson case, Macaulay Culkin has confessed to sleeping with Jackson.Not in the tabloid-friendly sense of the phrase, however.According to Femalefirst.co.uk, Culkin......

Tokyo Games: FASCINATING Pix!

Please click on the images for a better look at the action. IMAGE: Team Argentina's Agustina Albertarrio celebrates scoring the first goal with Julieta Jankunas during the Quarterfinal against......

PIX: West Ham, Chelsea flirt with shock FA Cup exits

IMAGE: Marcos Alonso celebrates with Cesar Azpilicueta after scoring Chelsea's second goal against Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup fourth round at Stamford Bridge, London, on Saturday. Photograph:......

'My destiny was to write about the game'

'That has always been my ambition -- to take the reader behind the scenes, to the places he was not allowed to visit, but which I had the privilege of entering.'Haresh Pandya remembers Ted Corbett,......