Incidents of arson, firing and vandalism were reported from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab as protesters agitated against the dilution of the SC/ST Act.
There will remain those, though, who will remain in opposition to this massive endeavour for world peace with an aim not to improve, but to scuttle the project. But for the rest of us, a cultural and spiritual event of this significance and scale is a feast for the mind and soul, say Sankrant Sanu.
PM Modi inaugurates the second phase of Rashtrapati Bhavan museum.
India'sstartups have a good beginning but will they survive competition is a big questions which needs immediate attention.
When it came to dealing with the media and academia, it has been a roller coaster ride for the National Democratic Alliance, observes Nitin Sethi.
The babas' vote banks and the politicians' greed for en bloc votes, is the curse of Punjab and Haryana.
People on the Ladakh sector of the border with China are compelled to ponder over a heart ripping prospect of a future in China -- a country they viscerally hate for steadily usurping their land. Their swelling disillusionment and popular frustration with India is fraught with grave geo-strategic and national security implications for the country. New Delhi's morbid indifference is indeed frightening, says R N Ravi.
Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee was on Friday conferred with the Bharat Ratna.
'It is clear that Britain is a country with a limited future,' says Rajeev Srinivasan.
Times Now, the English news channel Arnab Goswami headed until recently, had an average daily reach of 1.7 million people. That may be a fraction of the 48 million Aaj Tak reached every day in 2016, but Goswami had no trouble getting investors for his new venture.
Upstaged by the swanky malls in town, both M G Road and Brigade Road have lost their "happening" status
A majority of India's billionaires gained wealth in the last one year in spite of the stock market decline.
Jaitley's team presents a quintessential mix of foreign-educated, intellectual technocrats and seasoned bureaucrats
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