Celebs share their Christmas celebration pictures!
SEZs are business-friendly but not market-friendly. They work against an economic policy that promotes competition.
The Asian Development Bank will give a $20-million technical assistance loan to India for carrying out reforms in the judicial system.
The court summoned the managing editor of television channel NDTV and reporters to appear before it on Friday with un-edited copies of the sting operation on the alleged nexus between the prosecution and the defence in the case.
The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering will be held on February 12, 2006.
The hits and misses of the week.
The police suspect that the two were planning to blow up hospitals in the city.
NRI entrepreneurs Moni Varma, founder of the Veetee brand basmati rice and Rami Ranger, founder-chairman of Sun Oil Ltd, have won the Asian of the year and Asian Leadership in Europe Awards for 2006 respectively.
Factbox on the Brazilian, who was named European Footballer of the Year.
In order to strike a balance between the diverse communities in Varanasi, the Aam Aadmi Party will focus on tree major issues -- river, weaver and sewer -- when it takes on Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
Brazilian midfielder Ronaldinho of FC Barcelona won a cybersquatting case against a U.S. web site operator in a ruling by an international arbitrator on Thursday.
'India is going ahead with a tsunami warning system. The public may feel that there is an increase in disasters, but disasters are not particularly increasing,'says Dr Tad Murty.
Spanish media reports said Ronaldinho was due to arrive in Spain later on Saturday to close the deal.
The water level of major rivers, including the Ganga and the Yamuna, in Uttar Pradesh has crossed the danger mark at several places.
Will 'Bhaiyyaji', as Priyanka is called in UP, contest against Modi?
Literally testing the waters in the politically crucial state, Priyanka Gandhi, who is in charge of eastern UP for the party, travelled about 100 kilometres on the Ganga over three days, ending Wednesday in Varanasi.
Ronaldinho has agreed to extend his contract with Spanish champions Barcelona for another two years until 2010
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
If the researchers at Cornell University are to be believed then most people would pick up the phone to lie.
Bhaiaji Superhit is bah baloney! sighs Sukanya Verma.
Taking forward his Swachh Bharat campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday revisited his constituency and lauded people for helping rid the Assi Ghat of mounds of soil and garbage to restore the historical site to its old glory.
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Normally one would expect a trained sculptor to either carve out statues or be involved in building temples and with artistic airs. But Purna Chandra Upadhyay, who did his Masters in old Indian traditional sculpture in 1979, did neither. Instead, he joined a medical college and created body parts for anatomy students of the Banaras Hindu University for 33 years.
A day after the attack on Aam Aadmi Party leader Somnath Bharti on Wednesday evening in Varanasi, Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, asking if the Gujarat model was about 'threatening people' and demanded the Election Commission's immediate intervention.
Accusing the erstwhile Congress governments of pursuing "vote bank politics", PM Modi reached out to the numerically significant Nishad community in Uttar Pradesh
Heavy rainfall and electrocution of a worker at the venue of his public meeting in Varanasi on Thursday forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cancel his visit to his Lok Sabha constituency for the second time in about three weeks.
They're bold, beautiful and totally unrecognisable!
'It was a 20-minute boat ride journey of about 500 metres, but it must have been a giant leap together for the two staunchly secular leaders, Modi and Macron,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Celebrating the poet-saint's legacy in our times.
The movie may prove to be another turning point in the recent new wave Malayalam cinema.
East Bengal's hopes of becoming the first Indian football club to enter the AFC Cup final were dashed after they were beaten 3-0 by a far superior Kuwait Sports Club in the second leg semi-final, in Kolkata, on Tuesday.
Sanjeev Nayyar travels across India from Barmer to Arunachal to Mahabalipuram, and comes back humbled and impressed with the women he interacted with through his journey.
India has just had one of the worst quarters in export earnings.
The owner of two New Jersey defence contracting businesses has been charged with allegedly transmitting military blueprints to India, including those for torpedo systems for nuclear submarines, without a license in violation of export laws, through a password-protected church website, United States Attorney Paul J Fishman announced.
'This was our country, after all, our India, humara Hindustan -- why would we go anywhere else?'
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