Joel Husk, a Trump supporter, was terminated for the controversial post saying Michelle Obama is 'fluent in ghetto'.
Chouhan met some farmer leaders on Saturday, but failed to reach a compromise.
Arunabha Ghosh on why India will increasingly become an energy great power, but not an energy hegemon.
The council decided not to levy any additional tax on small petrol and diesel cars of up to 1200 cc as well as on hybrid ones.
In the GenNext world, waste of the past is best of the present. Otherwise, how can one believe that a Punjab-based company will be depending on rice husk to power its new power generation plants.
'This colliding of worlds is a feature of chawl life in Mumbai, where the clashes in one household often become prime-time television for the neighbours; where the boundaries of good sex, lechery, and incest are frequently blurred,' says Sreehari Nair.
Husks and stalks of corn plants are used to create the fuel.
In urban India, the fall in rice consumption was 0.2 kg per person per month.
At 19, he quit everything to work in a tribal village for free.
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For the thousands of destitute that Mother Teresa treated, she was 'god incarnate' and her hand was the miracle of love the poor needed. Attributing scientifically-unproven remedies as miracles does not help the followers of Missionaries of Charity and humanity in general, says Pallava Bagla.
Opium has joined the list of conventional electoral issues such as roads, water supply and health. PB Chandra reports how the supply of opium will play a decisive factor in the elections
Made with sweetened ash gourd and garnished with nuts, this halwa makes for an incredible festive treat.
Rediff.com presents some of the oddest Guinness world records held by Indians.
Prof Saras Saraswathy of the University of Virginia's Darden School shares some essential life lessons.
Pradip Burman belongs to one of India's most illustrious business families, one which runs the noted Dabur brand of mostly Ayurveda-based FMCG products.
While corruption destroys the moral fibre of a nation, its society and people, secularism as espoused in this country is cynical secularism, a sham perpetrated during election time and communalism is a spectre, a bogey raised by these great champions of Indian secularism to secure and perpetuate their vote bank, says Maneck Davar.
Bathinda is the only district in Punjab to start a movement to find out what the actual drug situation on the ground is and aims to address it.
'Reflex responses to Dalit student Rohith Vemula's suicide are band aids that stem the current hemorrhage but do precious little to the festering wound beneath,' says Vivek Gumaste.
'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?'
Dr G Padma Vijay's latest book has recipes for all.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday asked the Centre to take effective steps to curb drug trafficking going on through Pakistan, Afghanistan and Rajasthan.
Injury-hit India are looking to draw inspiration from history when they take on arch-rivals Pakistan in their Champions Trophy opener in Centurion on Saturday.
Designer Sabyasachi gives us his take on the fashionable and the not-so-fashionable.
After AND, Innter-pret and Grassroot, enterprising designer Anita Dongre has launched her fourth label -- Timeless. Here is the first collection from the new addition, titled Jaipur...My Jaipur.
This 24-yr old is empowering rural Bihar and how!
Bar Refaeli set the stage on fire as the model launched a new ad campaign for the fashion chain Rampage. Take a look.
'There are 25 million farmers in India with at least 2 to 3 cows each.' 'If all them use biogas to cook, millions of LPG units and firewood can be saved.'
Even four years after splitting the Reliance empire, the Ambani brothers still seem to be washing dirty linen in public: the latest battle is over gas pricing.
Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari, who is an MP from Punjab, on Friday quoted from an affidavit filed by the Punjab government in court which said that 70 per cent of the youth in Punjab are on drugs of various kinds. It is the same Akali-BJP government, which filed the affidavit in the court.
On the second day of the 10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas held in Jaipur, a seminar was held on 'Enhancing rural energy access'.
Rains were 26 per cent above normal across the country.
A cash prize of 20,000 pounds each were also given to them at a ceremony held in London on Thursday night.
In the fifth and final part of a week-long series, we bring you a recipe from 'Is Wheat Killing You?' by renowned clinical nutritionist Ishi Khosla.
The jury of the 58th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by Danish photographer Mads Nissen as the World Press Photo of the Year 2014.
From micro wind turbines to rice husk, low-cost solutions are being tested to drive the huge market hunger for energy.
The Tata group has done yet another Nano -- this time in the water purifier segment. Group company Tata Chemicals on Monday launched a compact water purifier, called 'Swach', which means clean in Hindi.
Beating more than 1,000 competitors from world over, Bihar-based Husk Power System, which coverts rice husks into energy and supplies electricity to villagers, has bagged the inaugural Global Business Plan Competition award.
Social entrepreneurship is expected to be the next big thing to influence India as the country juggles to achieve a balance between a growing GDP growth, ensuring inclusive growth and attempting to address issues ranging from education, energy efficiency to climate change.
It emphasised that agricultural infrastructure needs considerable investments and hence Section 80IA benefits must be extended to all such investments like IT infrastructure, computers, VSAT, solar panels, water harvesting facilities, storage etc.
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