Women strip to protest eviction drive in Guwahati

Women staged a semi-nude protest in Assam's largest city Guwahati against an eviction drive in Silsako Beel (lake) area on Friday, as excavators ravaged to the ground several houses to clear......

Chopped up body found in Delhi after arrest of 2 terror suspects

Days after two people with suspected terror links were arrested, the Delhi Police on Saturday recovered two hand grenades from their rented accommodation besides a dismembered body in the Bhalswa......

The Best Wildlife Photographs, 2022!

The winners of the Natural History Museum's prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were announced at an awards ceremony in London recently. American Photographer Karine Aigner......

Modiji, A Sure Shot Way To Win 2024

'All you have to do to win 2024 is concentrate on good governance.''There is only one thing to worry about: Think of how history will judge you if you do not do what you were expected to,' asserts......

Minimum wage, maximum trouble

If you take the minimum wage to Rs 15,000 tomorrow, the choice may not be between Rs 8,000 and Rs 15,000; it might be Rs 15,000 or nothing, says T N Ninan.    Anyone who believes that......

Why Nirma's Lafarge deal makes sense

The deal augurs well for Nirma as it already has a cement plant in Rajasthan, and has been scouting for assets in Gujarat for a while. Ahmedabad-based diversified conglomerate Karsanbhai Patel-led......

Why we need a national market for electricity

Now is the time to take some bold steps to structure a unified power market, notes Vinayak Chatterjee At an energy conclave recently, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said, “. . . the......

Why the Garden City is submerged under apathy

Many of the lakes in the city have 'disappeared' along with their water-spreads because of rapid and unbridled urbanisationA frothy lake in Bengaluru is a tourist attraction as shown on Google......

Coming soon: A 'Tendulkar Drive', 'Kohli Crescent' and 'Dev Terrace'

IMAGE: The estate is luring buyers with a 'Tendulkar Drive', 'Kohli Crescent' and 'Dev Terrace'. Photograph: BCCI A new housing estate being developed on Rockbank suburb of Melbourne will have......

PHOTOS: A Village in name, if not reality

When the first wave of athletes arrive in the Olympic Village on Monday they will find their new home from home bears little resemblance to anything found in the English countryside. In terms of......