A torrent of issues ranging from price rise to demand for dismissal of Mayawati government and immediate execution of Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru drowned the second day of the Monsoon session of Parliament on Tuesday.
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Blood And Iron is veteran journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta's painstaking effort at documenting the mining scams that erupted in south India this year.
It has been ten years since her death in the 9/11 terror strike, but the memories are still vivid for Valsa Raju's family. George Joseph reports
Much of what Gili offers are experiences not strongly defined by geographical coordinates. It's found in the warmth of the locals who love their land, who welcome strangers and find ways to make them feel at home, reveals Nikita Puri.
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At least 40 pilgrims were on Monday killed when a tractor trolley carrying them overturned in a waterlogged ditch in Nagra area of Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh.
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Images from Wednesday's IPL match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings.
Terrorism emanating from Pakistan's soil has complicated India's relations with that country, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said here, as he slammed Islamabad for not doing enough to crack drown on extremist elements.
Radhika Gupta and Anant Jatia, start-up entrepreneurs, speak about the impetus for their unusual start up, that led them to switch countries and gamble on their futures. They also discuss what it takes to succeed with their unique business proposition, why they quit lucrative careers to start a company in India and their success mantras.
Opinion is divided on the message that Charlie Hebdo was trying to send across using the cartoons depicting Aylan.
Death pursued this Rohingya family as they fled the violence in Myanmar.
Murders of a driver and a labourer, five fatal accidents killing seven people and drowning of two teenagers were reported on Sunday, with the police saying these incidents were related to Holi. Among the dead are two women, both victims of road accidents
'The UPA was the gang that couldn't shoot straight. The NDA is the gang that can't stop shooting. They (the Modi government) are shooting at anybody, everybody, all directions, shooting themselves in the foot.'
Private weather agency Skymet said Mumbai is at 'serious risk of flooding' between July 3 and 5.
The flashfloods inundated the low-lying areas and submerged the ground floor of the houses in the villages. A large number of livestock were drowned and standing crops were destroyed.
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Curfew was clamped in Baramulla town of north Kashmir on Wednesday, which witnessed protests over the drowning of a student, even as authorities terminated the services of a policeman accused by locals of pushing him into the river.
A survivor has claimed that the incident occurred after the boat hit a rocky patch in the Prongs Reef Lighthouse area in sea, which is the southernmost tip of Mumbai.
Rediff.com's Rajesh Karkera and Divya Nair bring you the action from the Kaala screening at Mumbai's Aurora theatre.
Overnight heavy rain in Hyderabad has claimed lives of three children of the same family, caused minor damage to the historic monument of Charminar and left several low lying areas under water.
The result also means second-placed Real Sociedad can reclaim top spot if they beat Eibar on Sunday.
Narendra Modi and the father-son duo of Farooq and Omar Abdullah were on Monday engaged in bitter sparring, with the Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate alleging that the biggest blow to secularism in the country was delivered in Kashmir from where Kashmiri Pandits were forced out due to their religion.
In flood-ravaged Pakistan, the government's awfully slow rescue operations are proving out to be largely ineffective, as the destitute victims' plight is turning irreparable, notes Tahir Ali.
"Mubarak said that when President Bush Sr had called and asked what Mubarak thought about invading Iraq to get to rid of Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf war, Mubarak had told him not to because 'you won't be able to get out and you will drown in Iraq,'" according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
'I had no idea that behind the charming, ever smiling Goan faces, there is so much complexity and history!' says Ajit Balakrishnan.
In a potential political setback for Sri Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam chief Vellapally Natesan, the Kerala government on Saturday announced further investigation into the death of Swami Saswathikananda of Sivagiri Mutt, following a Crime Branch report citing new revelations in the case.
Eight children from north-eastern states are among the 23 boys and girls who will receive National Bravery Awards for 2010 from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a function in New Delhi on the eve of Republic Day this year.
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India pacer Mohammad Shami has once again become a victim of social media trolling after he posted pictures of his wife during their daughter's second birthday celebrations.
Speaking at the soft launch of the Commonwealth Games Village on Wednesday, organizing committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi said Delhi is ready to host the athletes for the October 3-14 extravaganza.
Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Amit Shah on Tuesday attacked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging she was focused on trying to save her chit fund scam 'tainted' leaders instead of governing the state and was jeopardising national security for vote bank politics.
Rescuers on Friday found the body of an engineering student who was among the 25 youth who were swept away in gushing waters of the Beas river on June 8 and with this the bodies of 13 students have been recovered so far.
More than 50,000 people from coastal and low-lying villages in Andhra Pradesh have been evacuated to safer places even as the toll in rain-related mishaps since Tuesday went up to 15.
Kerala's chief inspector of Boats, M Mathews, was arrested on for issuing 'worthiness' certificate without following due procedures to the boat which capsized in Thekkady lake in which 45 tourists were drowned.
The family's disappearance coincided with reports that a vehicle had sunk into the Eel River in Northern California.
'The outrage that followed the destruction of the Babri Masjid was an inability to see the event for what it was: The rectification of a grave historical wrong, the restitution of a hurt of a people and the countering of moral injustice,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
One person, who was engaged in rescue operations, also collapsed and died. The bus was coming from Cherthala in Alappuzha district to Kottayam along the rural route when it fell into the river after hitting an electric pole, the police said.
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