Debanjan Ballav, a student of Sanskrit College and member of Left radical United Democratic Students Front, told reporters that it was Babul Supriyo who had threatened and abused him when he wanted to speak of the concerns about lakhs of people who were rendered homeless due to the National Register of Citizens' exercise in Assam.
Catch designer Rohit Bal's spectacular closing of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, with Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor teaming up on the ramp.
Hours before Chandrayaan-2's 'Vikram' module's proposed soft landing on the Lunar surface, Indian Space Research Organisation chairman K Sivan said on Friday things are progressing as per plan for the much-awaited event.
Rediff.com takes you through to NaMo's yoga class.
Bhaiaji Superhit is bah baloney! sighs Sukanya Verma.
You will be part of fastest growing major global economy, India's ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringala told young American students.
The saffron party promised a "direct payment of a proportionate bonus" to small and marginal farmers -- those owning up to five acres of land.
Applications are invited for admission to M Phil course for the year 2008-09, University of Pune
While almost all the members belonging to the ruling National Democratic Alliance took oath by swearing in the name of god, Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, who was re-elected to the Upper House from Maharashtra, took oath affirming his allegiance to the Constitution of India.
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh would like to see the cheetah back in India. How did the Indian cheetah disappear?
Her speech was laced with Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit and even Tamil verses.
The ruling Trinamool Congress held the Bharatiya Janata Party responsible for the blast and alleged that the saffron party was aiming to kill South Dum Dum Municipality chairman and TMC leader Panchu Roy. But the BJP rubbished the charges.
US giants are rushing to partner with Indian and Chinese companiestapping their brainpower and saving millions of dollars in the search for breakthrough treatments
Built at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd in Mumbai, the ship's construction also marks the end of the Project 15A to build Kolkata-class guided missile destroyers.
A lowdown on what's happening in the Malayalam film industry.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday gifted Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev a set of books relating to religions born in India.
Bonhomie prevailed on day two of the 16th Lok Sabha, but one veteran leader was left out in the cold.
In a cover up bid that went awry, invigilators detained 49 girl students of class XII at an examination centre in Sikar district of Rajasthan for over 24 hours after mistakenly distributing a paper that was to be held on a later date.
The resolution affirmed the importance of the festival in the lives of millions of Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs in the United States
The fleet landed at Al Dhafra airbase on Monday in the United Arab Emirates after flying for over seven hours from the Merignac airbase. It was the only stopover by the jets while flying from France to India.
There's a filmi face for almost every occasion.
Naandi is one example of the increasingly common intersection of philanthropy and social entrepreneurship in India and south Asia.
After proving its mettle in areas like steel, automotive and IT services on the global arena, corporate behemoth Tata group has now developed the world's fourth fastest supercomputer that can do 117.9 trillion calculations per second. The supercomputer "EKA", which means number one in Sanskrit, was named Asia's fastest and the world's fourth fastest in the Top 500 Supercomputer list announced at an International Conference for High Performance Computing at Reno California.
Assam University, Silchar, invites applications for its various academic programmes for the 2006-07 session.
Banaras Hindu University invites admission to PhD/ Vidyavaridhi programmes for the semsesters of July 2007 and January 2008.
'John Abraham has Popeye's muscles and Bluto's scowl, but how many times can you watch a deadpan Hulk pull out a van door or burst forth from a truck tyre?' asks Sukanya Verma.
Esha Deol's new tattoo reminds us of Angelina Jolie's latest.
Bangalore-based couple Sneha Sundaram and Bharath Bevinahally tell us how Kutuki, an early learning app, will change the way 200 mn kids in Indian will access education.
Russia's president-elect Dmitry Medvedev's surname can trace its origin to Sanskrit. Scholars have long believed that Arctic Russia was the home of Indo-European Aryan tribes. Outgoing president Vladimir Putin also spoke of Russia's Aryan roots during his India visit.
ISRO chairman K Sivan said the proposed soft-landing was going to be a 'terrifying' moment.
The chaplain Rajan Zed, after reciting the original lines in Sanskrit, then read the English translation of the verses.
Wearing traditional saffron coloured robes and a rudraksh rosary, Director of Public Affairs of Hindu Temple of Northern Nevada Rajan Zed invoked blessings on Monday for successful conclusion of the session.
It currently has invested in 35 locations, some of which border on a luxury level format and are large at 2,500 square feet.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver his speech in the United National General Assembly in New York in Hindi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said.
A student from US, who was enrolled in Delhi University's St Stephens College for a short duration course in Sanskrit, was allegedly sexually harassed by a teacher, according to college authorities.
Delhi Jal Board vice-chairman Kapil Mishra, 34, was on Wednesday named as the new law minister
Major General Sujan Singh Uban, a legendary veteran of the Second World War, was a natural choice to raise, train and command the Special Frontier Force and mould them into a well oiled fighting machine, recalls his son Inspector General Gurdip Singh Uban (retd), who led SFF troops during the Kargil War.
Devdutt Pattanaik, who has simplified the ancient Indian scriptures for millions of readers, highlights what our scriptures have to say about homosexuals and transgenders.
'After each election the losers troop to the court with various objections. The general election will not be different.' 'It could be worse if there is no clear majority and the President has to invite the party with the largest number to form the government,' points out M J Antony.
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