'This is India, bhai. This kind of country does not exist anywhere in the world.'
The festival is billed as the largest gathering of humanity on earth, with 110 million people expected to attend over 49 days. But for the thousands who get lost among the crowds, help is at hand and has been since 1946.
No posters, banners or blaring loudspeakers the election buzz is missing in Dharavi, till recently known as Asia's largest slum.
Company to start widely shipping its voice assistant and Bluetooth loudspeaker, the Echo, starting next week
'The judicial procedure was influenced which led to no convictions in the anti-Sikh riots of 1984'
Arun Karthick's Nasir is not the story of one man. It's a documentary on the scary, majoritarian, hateful road India has taken, discovers Mohd Asim.
Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora, a body representing the community across the world, said the decision cements territorial, political and cultural unity of the Indian Union.
Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com lists the pros and the cons.
Amar Bose last month joined the ranks of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison, after the National Inventors Hall of Fame announced his name as one of the seven living 2008 inductees. Dr Bose is only the second Indian American after Dr Rangaswamy Srinivasan, whose invention of ultraviolet surgical and dental procedures resulted in what is known today as LASIK surgery, to be inducted in the Hall of Fame.
North Korea has threatened to go to war against South Korea a day after the latter fired dozens of artillery rounds across the rivals' border in response to what it said were several rounds of Pyongyang's artillery launched at the South.
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Pakistan authorities have arrested more than 1,800 suspected extremists as crackdown on militants intensified in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre that left 150 people dead, officials said on Thursday.
He is one of the seven living 2008 inductees and has now joined the ranks of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison at the NIHF. He is also the founder, chariman and technical director of the globally renowned Bose Corporation.
Just as the first reaction of the man on the street is unanimous, there are no two opinions when it comes to identifying the culprit who caused this deterioration: the government.
Women and children have been given short shrift with these crucial sectors facing substantive budgetary cuts, discovers Rashme Sehgal.
Special infection proof fabric for usage in hospitals, low-cost corona virus testing kits, isolation pods for coronavirus infected patients, bubble helmets which can be an alternative for traditional oxygen masks and pendant to raise alarm on breach of social distancing, are also among the innovative ideas that have been given shape since the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
The police has registered a case against suspended Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Prahalad Gunjal and five others for violating prohibitory orders in Kota district, officials said on Wednesday.
Serena 'out of line' but both sides share blame says King
The ICSE, however, maintained the board did not publish or prescribe textbooks, and that schools had to deal with the issue.
The decision has been taken to maintain peace in the area in wake of the Dera stand-off with Sikhs following the recent blasphemous act of Dera head Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh.
South Korean Olympic archers will be hoping to avoid striking out in Rio after they announced plans to conduct open training sessions in a baseball dome to harden themselves for potentially hostile environments at the August 5 to 21 Games.
'The top-most functionaries and destiny-makers of the nation have thrown away the pretensions of statesmanship.' 'They seem to have made a categorical announcement that the next general election will be fought on the solo plank of Hindutva, rather than on good governance, economic development, and employment to youth', says Mohammad Sajjad.
The Union government has sought a report from Uttar Pradesh about the violence in Kanth area of Moradabad district, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said the government would allow Ghazi to be held under house arrest with his ailing mother if he surrenders and frees the trapped women and children.
'You know the difference between being brought up by a mother and a step-mother?' 'As long as Amma was there we had nothing to fear. Now the step-mother is there and we are on the streets.'
And it's much cheaper than Google Pixel 2!
The Statue of Liberty, one of the most visited monuments in the United States, and the island it sits on were evacuated on Friday because of a suspicious package, police said.
Do you use your cellphone while in the driver's seat? And we don't mean just making calls -- we're talking SMSes too!
The Delhi High Court Friday banned all public functions, including marriages, at public parks, streets or public roads henceforth.
Govt asks EC to consider state funding of polls
'I might in the future step out of a Dileesh Pothan movie not completely satisfied, but content I'll be in the knowledge that our greatest living film-maker had failed striving to be something more than just an auteur,' notes Sreehari Nair.
J&K residents contribute towards quake relief
There was not an ounce of bitterness as Osaka accepted the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup from Asia's first Grand Slam champion Li Na
The ban on loudspeakers between 2200 hrs to 0600 hrs stays.
Criticising the Bombay HC order which denies permission to erect pandals on roads the Sena on Monday said that the verdict appears to have come from a Pakistani court.
Who says feature phones have become a thing of past?
What dos and don'ts should people in Maharashtra follow with the state government notifying The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 lockdown orders?
Muslims across the country have joined the agitation, apprehending that the move could be a precursor to a country-wide NRC.
The development came a day after the protesting farmers rejected the Centre's offer to start talks as soon as they move to Burari and continued to stay put Singhu and Tikri borders of the national capital.
Around 20-25 youths of upper caste Thakur community from Shabbirpur village were on their way to Simlana village under Badgaon police station to take part in a function to garland the statue of Rajput warrior-king Maharana Pratap.
