Ajit Balakrishnan offers a New Year resolution for our policy-makers.
More than 25,000 classrooms of between 10,000 to 15,000 schools were destroyed by the deadly earthquake.
'Our modern icons have assumed infallibility and think course correction or admission of a mistake as taboo.' 'Much will depend on the sagacity of the national leadership to show humility that our Gods showed.' 'Else, we are doomed in the coming year to divert our attention to firefighting rather than the task of nation building,' warns Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
In comments that could kick up a row, Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said the government at the Centre is of 'Ram bhakts' (devotees) and those who shout 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans.
'We would try our best that the temple structure becomes visible in the next two years.'
"I am supporting the Hindu side," lawyer M C Dhingra, appearing for Shia Wakf Board, told the bench.
Forget Munnar and Manali, these places in India are worth your time.
The submission was vehemently opposed by senior advocate C S Vaidyanathan, representing deity 'Ram Lalla', who said: "This is totally unwarranted".
'Lord Rama is still in the same shape as he was before the disputed structure fell...'
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The counsel stated that from the pillar bases, artefacts, circular shrine, intersecting brickbat walls found in excavation, an inference can be drawn that the massive structure was a temple and not any Islamic structure.
The domestic airlines industry is estimated to have posted losses to the tune of over Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) in the previous fiscal, nearly 18 per cent down from a year ago.
'The appearance of idols of deities inside Babri was not a miracle. It was a planned and surreptitious attack to put them on the intervening night of December 22-23, 1949'
The couple got engaged in a simple temple ceremony on February 27.
Says it followed all quality standards, probe needed on causes; top management remains unavailable
A day after an under-construction flyover collapsed in the city leaving at least 24 dead, the police on Friday night arrested three top officials of a Hyderabad based company which was building the flyover and slapped murder charges on them.
'It is best that an amicable solution to the dispute is found outside the precincts of the courts of law,' says former Union home secretary Dr Madhav Godbole.
'In the US, they have created a blacklist for fliers. We are trying to do the same here.'
A senior bureaucrat and his wife were found dead under mysterious circumstances at their house in Hazrat Nizamuddin area of south-east Delhi on Friday evening.
The best-selling author explains why he gains weight every time he writes a book.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will only travel to Kathmandu when he will leave on Tuesday to attend the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Nepal, despite his wish to visit other parts of the country including Janakpur, the revered Hindu religious site.
Forced to leave their hamlets and cattle, the border residents want the Narendra Modi government to take strong action against Pakistan so that it does repeat the terror attacks and ceasefire violations along LoC.
Bollywood has been giving their daughters a lot of love on Daughter's Day.
Ace golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar has won the best pro award at the Take Solutions India Golf Awards held recently at a city hotel in Gurgaon.
You'll come out laughing till your sides hurt, promises Sukanya Verma.
Chandrakant Sompura has either planned, designed, built or renovated over a hundred temples in India and abroad.
Colouring books for adults are helping people loosen up and rediscover their childhood.
It is not just in the film industry. It happens everywhere, she said.
'Padmavati represents the voice of thousands of Rajput women who lived and died not by their own choice.' 'Let their story be heard,' says Kishore Singh.
It was raining stars at the The Indian International Jewellery Week. Take a look.
Take a cue from showstopper Sayani Gupta, who made a stunning bride in a gorgeous deep red lehenga.
Nilanshu Chaturvedi polled 66,810 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party rival Shankar Dayal Tripathi got 52,677 votes.
The UP CM didn't deign to attend the actor's nomination.
Ten bogies of a Jammu-bound train derailed in Kaushambi on Monday, killing three persons including a woman on the spot and injuring nine and affecting train traffic on Allahabad-Kanpur route.
'The condition in Bengal is such that if you chant Jai Shri Ram, you would be put behind bars
Here's a list of a few remarks which added to the anguish of people in the aftermath of the tragedy.
