Street foods of Delhi
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza has donated an autographed racquet to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for auction, the proceeds from which will help provide relief to 'working animals'.
'Despite the subsequent events at Kargil and the October 12, 1999 military coup in Pakistan, the Lahore initiative firmly established Vajpayee's credentials as a crusader of peace,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Referring to her party's pre-poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, she said it was based on "mutual respect" and "honest intentions", adding that "the SP-BSP alliance is perfect enough to defeat the BJP, especially in Uttar Pradesh.
Aiming to push India into the list of the top 10 agri export nations, the policy has been backed by the Prime Minister's Office
Turmeric can help prevent cancer, diabetes and arthritis.
Turmeric can help prevent cancer, diabetes and arthritis.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities:
"We did not say no to IPL. We just said we cannot give drinking water for IPL," Fadnavis said.
Get rid of these bad habits, says Upendra Kaul.
'When Arnab Goswami's arrest became a talking point, the case of my husband who was arrested much earlier, was totally ignored.' 'When so many people spoke in support of Goswami, they were silent on a journalist named Siddique Kappan'
An entirely preventable disease claimed the life of 173 children -- thanks to state apathy.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday.
India is looking at massive agri-business opportunities in war-ravaged Iraq, including those for sale of wheat, rice, tea and sugar, the commodities
'The prime minister did not think that COVID-19 was a serious challenge as late as March 20.'
India imports about 25 million tonnes of oil from Iraq each year.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
Legendary actress Suchitra Sen is in a serious condition after she was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata following a respiratory tract infection, doctors said on Sunday.
India is trying to push a national goods and services tax (GST) through parliament that would replace a myriad of state sales taxes and shake-up government revenue.
'With enjoyable physical activity, stress release quality sleep and the right diet, we can reverse the metabolic damage which is wreaking havoc in the world and especially in India.'
'It was the Mughals who first established standard units of measurement and maintained offices of meticulous record keepers and auditors, departing from the more haphazard methods of earlier regimes.' 'By the end of the 16th century, their revenue and judicial administrations exhibited an obsessive preoccupation with order, the efficient management of time, and a spirit of rational self-control -- all of them characteristics of early modernity,' point out Sheldon Pollock and Benjamin Ellman.
'This proved that whatever was growing in the mosquito's gut was a parasite -- it was almost certainly the malarial parasite.'
The neighbouring country has to abolish the negative list of 1,209 tradable items.
'Only when China treats India as an equal can we consider them real friends.'
'The only way to minimise logical inconsistencies and confusion is to develop the two rates of 12% and 18% as the ones that apply to almost all items.' 'At a later stage, these two rates could be merged into a single rate,' advises T N Ninan.
Seven cups of ingredients are used to make this popular sweet.
'What is bank recapitalisation? When the rich take loans and do not return and the government returns that money to the banks.' 'What is restructuring 5:25 scheme? The government says don't return now, just tell us you will return after five years.' 'Why don't we apply these schemes to farmers?' 'I want to increase the power of farmers to blackmail the government as everyone in the country has the power to blackmail.'
Mini Ribeiro gets top chefs to share the best chutney recipes.
'It is the moment where compassion and empathy must supersede our identity, politics, or our ambitions.'
'You can't take money from Shaktikanta Das (the RBI governor) and give it to Nirmala Sitharaman (the Union finance minister). She will blow it away on Modi.'
'With the largest number of malnourished people on the planet, India is poised to be a nation that significantly under-performs as an economy.'
In an hour-long chat on rediff.com on Thursday, A K Prabhakar, senior VP and Head -- Equity Research (Retail), Anand Rathi Financial Services Ltd, discussed the best stocks to put the investors' money in.
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This is the project to turn municipal and agri-waste into fuel sources like diesel, jet fuel, naptha and petroleum. It is called IH2.
The Indian Met Department has predicted a below normal monsoon.
Onions had the highest inflation rate among all major commodities.
