Incoming US President Donald Trump has assembled a core team that is -- not surprisingly -- overwhelmingly white and male.
Donald Trump is the "man who can lead the US to a better future", his former bitter critic and 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney has said, asserting that he was impressed by the President-elect's post victory speeches and selection of his team members, including Nikki Haley.
He, obviously, later said that his remarks had been interpreted out of context.
By undertaking medical mercy missions, the Indian Air Force will win immense political and national goodwill.
So, we ask you, dear readers, to extend your hand to the African community in the country. Show them the love, spread the word of tolerance and help India get rid of its racist tag.
'Our countrymen should be made aware of the need to be polite and friendly to our African guests.' 'They should know the dictum, athithi devo bhava, whether they are black or white,' says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, who once served as India's high commissioner to Kenya.
Days after his intolerance remarks, Bollywood star Aamir Khan has said India is "very tolerant" but there are people who spread hatred and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to rein them in.
Aamir Khan is no longer the face of Incredible India campaign.
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan ceases to be the mascot for government's Incredible India campaign as the contract for it has expired.
'This is a giant film, a magnum opus drunk on its own magnum-ity, and it is perfectly clear early on, as the narrative races out the gate and gauntlets are flung up in the air and shot through with arrows, that a film like this can only work as opera,' says Raja Sen.
Bollywood actor Anupam Kher, who has not held back his words when it comes to taking on those who have been protesting on the rising intolerance in the country, has now slammed superstar Aamir Khan for his comments that he too felt that the sense of insecurity and fear had been growing in the past six or eight months.
Cafe Irani Chaii is Mansoor Showghi Yezdi's attempt at preserving Irani culture in an age of globalisation, where old cultures are swiftly fading away.
India is all set for a mega Yoga event on June 21. But before that watch these Yoga moves played out in the most 'out there' of locations.
Third seeded Indian pair of Harmeet Desai and Soumyajit Ghosh went down in the doubles final of the GAC Group ITTF World Tour Australian Open table tennis tournament in Gold Coast, Australia, on Saturday.
'It is nauseating to hear jingoists shout that this is a country that worships women as Goddesses. Leave Goddesses aside, do you treat women as human beings here?'
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Direct-selling company Amway India said its MD and CEO William S Pinckney has been released on bail, two months after his arrest by Andhra Pradesh Police in connection with criminal cases registered against the firm in the state.
'India will succeed. I know this past year has caused a lot of concern, but this year is over and by elections we will achieve our ambitious economic agenda.'
Better funding assistance & reforms needed for tourism-related development projects.
Ajay Devgn and Sanjay Dutt's latest movie has very little to offer except perhaps a headache that could well ruin your festive spirit.
It has taken three-and-a-half years for the Congress leadership and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to realise that without Andhra Pradesh they would not be in power at the Centre, and will not be able to do the same in 2014 without this southern citadel standing by them.
Teachers Day will be celebrated across India on September 5. Share stories of your favourite, most inspirational teachers with us.
These core values can guide humanity on the path of peace and prosperity in the new millennium.
'He made three highly exaggerated statements. He said Pakistan is "enormous", it is strategically important not only for the US, but also for the world and that the people of Pakistan has tremendous potential.'
Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy said on Monday there was no need for Indian IT industry to be apolgetic or shy about US outsourcing curbs during President Barack Obama's visit to the country next month.
On the occasion of Teacher's Day, Ministhy S, author and IAS officer, pays tribute to the teachers who have shaped her.
With Father's day coming up on June 20, we invited readers to share their favourite menories of their dad with us. Here are some of the responses we received. Share yours!
Peace with Pakistan is not possible in the foreseeable future. Those charged with the responsibility to safeguard our country and its citizens will do well to get a reality check and devise our defence posture accordingly, writes Colonel Dr Anil Athale (retd).
Tourism secretary Sujit Banerjee said the government is going for single window clearance system for hotel industry and all formalities including the preparation of cabinet note for the proposal has been finalised.
"There was some talk in quarters by legislators in Goa that Russians provoke. How can a little nine-year-old provoke? How can it be? The situation is not right in Goa. Goan authorities are not doing everything to investigate. This is not the first case," Russia's Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin said.
A new study has found that people paid hourly wages show a stronger relationship between income and happiness.
Zakir the bearded, cheerful auto man who meets us at Surat railway station has not heard about the eclipse.
Arranged in alphabetical order, today we look at the first ten which are competing for the festival's major prize, the Palme D'Or.
Following is the trascript of President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.
There have been cancellations in inbound air bookings as well as in hotels after the November 26 terror strikes in the western metropolis, industry experts said. According to the ministry, the growth rate in the foreign tourist arrival during January-November 2008 was only eight per cent as compared to growth rate of 14.8 per cent during the same period in 2007.
More unanswered questions about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that need to be answered.
More unanswered questions about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that need to be answered.
Two taxi drivers were on Monday awarded the death sentence by a Delhi court for killing Australian tourist Dawn Emilie Griggs, after gangraping and robbing her, in 2004.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 each on the two convicts who were held guilty of gangrape, robbery, destruction of evidence and common intention. The court had convicted the two accused on August 2.The court convicted Prasad, 28, and Kumar, in his early 30's, for the various offences.
Tata's Taj Mahal Palace and Tower in Mumbai and Orient's Le Manoir Aux Quat'saisons at Oxfordshire, UK, are among the world's 17 best hotels for having food, according to the 2008 Gold List prepared by British magazine Conde Nast.
Terrorists seem to have foothold in our stock markets. Crucially, no modern State would have ever dealt with its own security in such a lackadaisical manner, as successive Indian governments seem to have done.
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