'Does a thousand-year-old sculpture worshipped in a thriving religion belong to a foreign museum or the temple from which it was extracted?' Congress MP Shashi Tharoor asked angrily. 'They legitimately belonged to India and people of past, present and future generations are interested in re-possessing them,' a central information commissioner declared last month.
RajniSir's latest film is expected to hit nearly 5,000 screens worldwide and will release in four languages.
As fliers find themselves spoilt for choice, airlines are looking at ways in which to position themselves distinctively.
'It was the Mughals who first established standard units of measurement and maintained offices of meticulous record keepers and auditors, departing from the more haphazard methods of earlier regimes.' 'By the end of the 16th century, their revenue and judicial administrations exhibited an obsessive preoccupation with order, the efficient management of time, and a spirit of rational self-control -- all of them characteristics of early modernity,' point out Sheldon Pollock and Benjamin Ellman.
Fernandes said south India was a fantastic market and it would be the gateway for people who want to visit southeast Asia and beyond.
The BJP president came down heavily on the Opposition saying a shocking change has happened in the country's politics with those against the prime minister resorting to lies and speaking it loudly all the time.
"Only the Congress and the JD-S are celebrating, people of Karnataka are not," he told reporters.
The Gujarat government believe it can usefully utilise its 1,600-km coast for cultivating more coconuts in the coming years.
Get your lowdown on what's happening in Kannada films.
It had signed a joint venture with Reliance Retail to form M&S Reliance India Private Limited in April 2008.
Rediff.com brings you some explosive extracts from the 400-page report that has triggered a political tsunami.
El Nino is expected to occur in August-September, but it is unlikely to have any major impact on the monsoon, and the weatherman expects a positive Indian Ocean Dipole, which has a strong influence on rainfall in the country.
Naidu is a fitting candidate for the office of vice president, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.
The intensity and the articulate planning of Mumbai serial blasts, which claimed 18 lives on Wednesday night, indicates the involvement of the Indian Mujahideen. Intelligence Bureau reports suggest that the IM, which was formed in Uttar Pradesh a few years ago, has regrouped in south India. South states have long been considered as the preferred locations for terrorists to set up their hubs. Kerala is considered to be particularly sensitive due to its likely role as a feeder.
'The TDP walking out of the NDA is a victory for the YSRCP.' 'The YSRCP wanted it to happen so that it would help them in coming elections.'
From Dabur to HUL, here are 10 stocks with significant rural exposure in the auto, agri-chemical and fast moving consumer goods sectors, which should see an uptick in sales growth.
While the Congress has found success in scoring over the BJP on Twitter and Facebook, it has failed to match the Sangh Parivar's finesse at utilizing WhatsApp as its primary medium to send its message across to the Karnataka electorate, reports Archis Mohan.
'The current crisis is a result of a clash between a coercive attempt by the government to justify demonetisation and rising digital transactions against the market and the economy fighting the unexpected pressure from atop.'
The Supreme Court and its committees, the two states and the central government must become objective and take the present and not just the past in mind.
With just a few hours to go before Lokayukta of Karnataka Justice Santhosh Hegde submits his report on illegal mining, there is a lot of talk about a possible successor to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.
Pakistan's external spy agency is trying to push its South Indian agenda
Eleven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes after setting out from California, Srinivas Gokulnath created history by becoming the first Indian to complete what is considered to be the toughest cycle race in the world -- the 4,900-km Race Across America (RAAM) in the solo category.
Contrary to common belief that celebrity inmates get 'special treatment', jail authorities say that they are not treated any different from other criminals. Sahim Salim takes a look.
The session started on December 15 ended on January 5.
At the launch of his political party, actor Kamal Haasan said he was seized of a guilty conscience when he thought of what he had done for the people who showered him with their love.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets Chennai's all-girl street children football team who competed in the Street Child World Cup in Moscow.
The reason, say market players, is heavy losses suffered by traders in south India and Ahmedabad dabbling in the white metal.
This large cache of arms was the arsenal assembled by terror outfit Al Ummah for their biggest target -- Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
The former Delhi chief minister said her conscience is clear and she is not scared of anyone.
Intelligence Bureau sources point out that any terror group would find it easy to set up base in the state. The headache zones in the state are Binanipuram, Malapuram and Kozhikode
From modest milk chocolate for kids 45 years ago to sophisticated dark chocolate for adults, Amul is a part of India's history.
In the first of a two-part series, Business Standard examines the impact of the upcoming summer on agriculture and drinking water supply.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj, who was in charge of the party's campaign in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry, on Tuesday claimed that her party would make its presence felt in south India. She was addressing a press conference after campaigning in the poll-bound states."Our party is winning in at least four constituencies in Kerala. I personally feel that we will do better than that," she told newspersons at the party headquarters on Tuesday.
Rushda is the 3rd patient in Aligarh to have died due to swine flu in the past 10 days.
'A one party-State, with only one kind of Indian,' argues Mihir S Sharma.
India's top IT companies need to open new facilities in the United States to create more employment opportunities for locals and to change the perception that they were job-takers, a leading US business forum representative has said.
In his report, he blames the Karnataka government entirely for the church attack fiasco. In this interview with rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, Justice M F Saldanha says that there is not a single incident of conversion that has taken place in Karnataka. He further goes on to add that Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa holds a public office and cannot continue to behave like a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha pracharak.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf tries to escape the Mumbai heat in the hills of Uttarakhand and discovers the aftermath of climate change and Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
