A junior commissioned officer of the counter insurgency Rashtriya Rifles committed suicide in a camp in central Kashmir Budgam district by shooting himself with his automatic service rifle on Friday evening.
An anonymous call threatening to blow up the Election Commission's office in New Delhi on Sunday triggered panic, but it turned out to be a hoax.
R Rajagopalan reveals the BJP's master plan to get Modi re-elected.
'Look at Mr Modi. He is a part of this new middle class.' 'India has never before seen this kind of social mobility, certainly not since medieval times.' 'As a result, India's entrenched elite, which is a class of people with a strong sense of entitlement, is being tamed,' Sanjeev Sanyal tells Shyamal Majumdar and Arup Roychoudhury.
A wise politician would disarm his critics, try to take them along, co-opt them, or, at least, take the criticism in his stride. Developing a thick skin ought to be an essential part of any politician's toolkit, notes Virendra Kapoor.
Notorious for their diktats prohibiting same 'gotra' marriages, the Khap panchayats or caste councils of Haryana have got support from Congress Member of Parliament from Kurukshetra, Navin Jindal, who has praised them for rendering yeoman service to the society.
A group of high-powered individuals led by Anand Mahindra have come together to set up Krea university. The campus is expected to be ready by 2019 and the first batch of 100 to 125 students will commence classes in August next year.
'Infectious disease is a given of humankind. There will always be another around the corner.'
Nobel laureate of Indian origin Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, noted theatre personality Ebrahim Alkazi were on Wednesday conferred the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award by President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur will personally receive United States President Barack Obama when he arrives at the Delhi airport on November 7.
Oli said the territories belong to Nepal 'but India has made it a disputed area by keeping its Army there'. "Nepalis were blocked from going there after India stationed its Army," he said.
Many experts feel the concept of a national peak is nebulous, given that the growth in case numbers is dominated by a handful of states.
The parade began after President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the Ashoka Chakra -- India's highest peacetime gallantry award -- to Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani, a militant-turned-soldier who laid down his life fighting a group of terrorists in Shopian in Kashmir in November.
Experts believe that under-reporting is likely to cause an underestimation of the spread of the disease.
Increasingly, the space for India to engage other countries is shrinking and hardening, primarily because post-Sharm El Sheikh, we have a leadership that worries about the public backlash all the time, and because the two communities who should be tasked with preparing the ground for engagement --the ministry of external affairs and the media -- are instead drawing red lines.
Reader Hemanth Rai sent us these pictures from Bangalore.
Transport minister R Ashoka said on Thursday all new autorickshaws registering in the city should be 'green'.
The problem of unemployment is spread across the economy.
'As we gird ourselves for rising infections, India's harsh lockdown remains an epic tragedy,' observes Rahul Jacob.
India has purchased 500 million doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine candidate, one billion from the United States company Novavax and 100 million doses of the Sputnik V candidate from Russia's Gamaleya Research Institute, according to the US-based Duke University Global Health Innovation Center.
'To all the MBAs that burn the candle at both ends, travel half-a-million miles every year, and spend little or no quality time with their families, the rise to riches of Mr Bikhchandani and Mr Banga, should be true inspiration,' notes Sandeep Goyal.
As the electronic ticker that updates the Bharatiya Janata Party's ascendancy in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar keeps ticking up the celebrations by party workers are getting wilder and wilder.
In all, 425 officers and men of the armed forces received gallantry and other defence decorations this year.
Union minister and Trinamool Congress leader Sultan Ahmed was on Monday asked by his party to leave his accommodation in the five-star Ashoka Hotel, where he has been staying for the last six months, running up an estimated bill of Rs 36 crore.
The state government will review the lockdown situation in Guwahati after seven days from the enforcement of the restrictions.
'He never used the party's cars and always was chauffeured in a private car.' On May 17, a day after his historic victory, Narendra Modi returned triumphantly to his old home at Ashoka Road where he lived as the party general secretary in the late 1990s. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets folks who worked with him in the capital at that time. A rare glimpse of our next prime minister.
While there is a glimmer of hope and India's COVID-19 numbers are on a definite decline for a combination of reasons, a vaccination programme continues to be important, particularly given the presence of a mutant, more transmissible strain, several experts said while cautioning against infection upticks ahead.
There can be no one answer to the question at the centre of an anxious debate across a world coping with COVID-19 and wondering what will happen if another one comes, but the global scientific community has been working on multiple tracks to ensure that humankind is better prepared.
'The worst is possibly over because too many of us may already be infected.'
This is the first Cabinet expansion after he assumed office on July 26 and proved his government's majority on the floor of the assembly on July 29.
'Mamata is campaigning hard and not giving the BJP a walkover.'
Shambhavi, who was invited by President A P J Abdul Kalam to Rashtrapati Bhavan as a 13 year old, remembers the meeting with awe and pays tribute to the man who inspired her.
The BJP has not only lost but its entire stance on terrorism stands exposed. It will need many 'chintan baithaks' for the party leaders to find out why the voters have not bought their serious and quite justifiable allegation of the Congress being 'soft on terror'.
The transcript of the communiqus issued to Modi, Sonia an Digvijay Singh
The bright yellow coloured notes will hit the market just a day after the announcement by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley that the government has given a go-ahead to the RBI to issue the new currency bill.
People for Animals, an NGO chaired by Maneka Gandhi, is looking for bright, enthusiastic people with ideas on how to push the organisation to the next level.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra on Saturday evening lost his cool and angrily pushed the microphone of a reporter away when he was quizzed about his controversial land deals in Haryana.
The UGC defended Jio Institute's inclusion on the grounds that it was selected under rules for greenfield institutions. According to officials, 11 such institutions had applied for the IoE tag and Jio was selected from among them.
Calling the Supreme Court order 'unjust' to the tribals as well as against the interest of wildlife conservation in India scientists have demanded cancellation of SC order
