More than courage ...: Modi after diving down to pray in submerged Dwarka

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday went scuba diving off the Panchkui beach coast in Dwarka in Gujarat and performed prayers as he witnessed the ancient Dwarka city of Lord Krishna, which is......

Ram devotees across the globe celebrate Ayodhya consecration

Joyous Ram devotees and members of the Indian diaspora around the world came together, including at the iconic Times Square in New York, for prayers, car rallies, cultural and other religious......

Rahul blows kisses to crowd shouting 'Jai Shri Ram', 'Modi, Modi'

As a group of Bharatiya Janata Party workers chanted 'Jai Shri Ram' and raised 'Modi, Modi' slogans in front of Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra bus in Nagaon, the Congress leader waved, gave......

What happened in Ayodhya on the eve of consecration

Invitees to the 'pran pratishtha' consecration ceremony at the Ram temple started arriving Sunday in Ayodhya -- once a sleepy town now resplendent with new infrastructure and gripped by heightened......

UP's free-housing mess a national warning

With nearly a million identified slums, UP urgently requires housing for the poor Residents of a free-housing colony are forced to buy water from a commercial tanker because of shoddy supply......

Small stores go out of business as consumers flock online

Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon, one of the biggest online retailers in world. Photograph: Reuters It is a breezy evening and the Delhi weather is perfect for......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......

Text your Bachchan Quotient!

Amitabh Bachchan has probably the largest fan following on the planet (okay, okay, SRK is a close second). The megastar is still so red hot at the box office. Audiences just can't seem to get......

My Daughter Mithali Raj

'From the beginning (I have told her) "Whatever it may be -- you are losing or winning -- on the ground you're not going to cry!" She never cried.''"I don't want you to project that you are a......