UK polls: Sunak, rival Starmer hit temple trail to woo British Hindu voters

On the final weekend of campaigning ahead of the UK general election on Thursday, both Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the man who is fighting for his job at 10 Downing Street – Labour Leader......

Restoring India's Botanic Heritage

With over 3,000 species of plants, 26 interconnected lakes and the 250-year-old Great Banyan Tree -- the largest in the world -- the Indian Botanic Garden is a veritable treasure, discovers Payal......

Liz Truss beats Rishi Sunak in Tory leadership race to be new UK PM

United Kingdom foreign secretary Liz Truss on Monday won the hard-fought Conservative Party leadership race, beating Rishi Sunak to go on to replace outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson -- loyalty......

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange marries lawyer fiance in London prison

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange married his lawyer fiance on Wednesday in Belmarsh Prison in south-east London, where he is being held as he fights against being extradited to the US on charges of......

Bombay House to be shut for about a year

Bombay House will be closed for business as it goes for renovation - its first such closure in 93 years Natarajan Chandrasekaran is known to be a marathon man. But ever since he has taken over as......

200 amazing years of rail transport

First electric locomotive. Photograph: Siemens Two hundred years after George Stephenson built the steam-powered Blucher, Open Knowledge pays tribute to 200 years of rail transport. ......

Spirits up: Vodka overtakes Scotch in UK

Believe it or not, Vodka has knocked Scotch off its perch to become Britain's favourite spirit for the first time. The popular Russian drink has become the country's number 1 drop of hard liquor,......

Slice of Indian life to spice up lives

Arun Samant and Appa Khule have little in common - Samant lives in Khetwadi in Mumbai and Khule is a fisherman from the picturesque Nivti-Bhogve village in coastal Sindhudurg in Maharashtra. But......

Review: Moana is a treat

Moana is a journey you want to get on, raves Sukanya Verma. When walking inside a world as intimate as Disney, there’s a sense of familiarity with the many morals, motives and motifs --......

Argentina's predicted starting XI for World Cup Final

IMAGE: Lionel Messi is on a mission to lift his first World Cup at his fifth and final attempt. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Argentina look set to keep Julian Alvarez in attack for......