People in India and around the world are drawing attention to the global water crisis - and promoting solutions that ensure water is a public good, not a commodity to be bought and sold.
Ajit Balakrishnan recalls some lessons from the last time people talked of 'convergence' -- the mid-1990s.
Vodafone India revenues, which includes standalone, its subsidiaries and proportionate consolidation of Indus Towers (42 per cent), stood at Rs 15,510 crore (Rs 155.1 billion) in the same period last year.
The sunny Caribbean island is just one of a number of jurisdictions, most of them islands, that provide the necessary infrastructure for businesses that don't exactly thrive on close oversight.
India battles big pharma over cough syrup abuse, reducing supplies
'What if Kim is alive as the latest reappearance suggests, but unable to rule?' 'Will his sister be installed as the leader to continue with the Kims's hereditary dynasty that began with the present ruler's grandfather?' asks Dr Rajaram Panda.
The condition of two Tibetans on a hunger strike for almost a month in front of the United Nations has deteriorated. George Joseph reports.
India on Wednesday termed as unjustified the American decision to impose sanctions on its two firms for supplying some chemicals to Iran, asserting that the transfer did not violate Indian regulations or its international obligations.
Jihadi groups and organised crime tactics: Report
The first ever film from Pakistan to win an Oscar, Saving Face tells the story of a crime that still goes mostly unreported.
Unlike in the past, Modi made candid, frank and direct remarks on his hosts by suggesting that the Chinese side is holding back on further improving relations, says Srikanth Kondapalli.
'My biggest contribution is the creation of the first 'modern Indian law firm',' Cyril Shroff tells Sudipto Dey.
A man who had lunch with Osama and offered to spy on him was ignored by intelligence agencies in 2000.
You cannot sow today and reap tomorrow.
Attorneys for Indian guest workers who are suing Mississippi-based marine and fabrication company Signal International along with its co-conspirators and other entities for human trafficking and racketeering have filed for class certification to include hundreds of additional workers in the lawsuit. If class status is granted by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the lawsuit could be the largest human trafficking case in US history.
Nearly eight out of 10 Chinese, who took part in a national poll said they believe China should stay on the path of political reform while according top priority to stability to avert a collapse similar to that of the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1991.
The United States Soccer Federation said in a statement on the new charges that its hosting of the 2016 Copa America Centenario tournament would go ahead as planned.
The 40-year-old Vijay Kumar was arrested at George Bush Intercontinental airport on Friday after "acting suspicious," when screeners thought they saw a possible handgun in a scan of his baggage. Investigators found the brass knuckles, a manual for a handgun and Islamic literature in Kumar's checked luggage
The Valcyte case is vital as it bars incremental innovation and recognises the right of patient groups to oppose patents.
United States President Barack Obama last week appointed his Deputy Associate Counsel at the White House, Rashad Hussain, 30, to serve as his Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference -- which comprise over 50 member states and is the second largest inter governmental organisation in the world.
A home ministry official said while 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country due to "massive efforts" to check the outbreak, the Centre has written to all states and union territories that "the lockdown measures should be implemented in letter and spirit".
Sheela Murthy, founder, president, and managing attorney of the Murthy Law Firm, has won the Philanthropist of the Year award from the United Way of Central Maryland for her $1 million gift to United Way, a large portion of the sum being marked to go to India.
When Rinku Sen took the cause of illegal immigrants to the youth panel of America's premier civil rights organizations, some participants were surprised. Sen, an activist for over two decades and author of the well-praised book The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization, pleaded, as she has been doing for many years, the cause of illegal immigrants from across the world.
Bunker Roy, founder of the Barefoot College at Tilonia in Rajasthan, was awarded the Clinton Global Citizen Award at a ceremony in New York on September 25.
In the final part of this series on studying in Denmark, the writer tells why you must study in the Aarhus School of Business.
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I cannot agree with the sentiment that hanging rapists will make sexual harassment and assault, and other forms of violence against women, magically disappear. Misogyny has stained our culture for far too long for merely judicial recourse to be able to wash it away, says Paloma Sharma.
'Islam insists on sameness, which is fine but can run the danger to jihad against those who are not the same.' 'Brahminical Hinduism insists on difference, which is fine but can run the danger of an oppressive internal hierarchy: Caste oppression, for instance.' 'In actual fact, humans need both sameness and difference to exist.'
China basked in the glow of their 51st gold medal and got a clear thumbs-up from International Olympic Committee on the last day of the Games on Sunday. The hosts finished well clear atop the medals table with 15 more golds than the United States. The last of the 302 gold medals was won by France in the men's handball.
The statements made by the opposition parties after the preemptive air strike on terror camps have made only people of Pakistan happy, he claimed.
In spite of all their complaints, pharma MNCs have been gaining market share in India. And this growth has come largely with generics.
Spices export increased close to 50 percent during April-August period. India exported US$421.16 million worth spices during this period while it was only US$ 280.71 million in same time last year.
'India has already suffered in the raid of January 2, and taken punishment. If comparable or higher retribution does not visit Pakistan, there is no reason why it should not undertake such a misadventure again,' says Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd).
The newly elected Legislative Assembly in Himachal Pradesh has seen a decline in the number of members who are facing criminal cases. Of the 68 newly elected MLAs, 14 MLAs or 21 per cent have declared criminal cases against them. In the 2007 assembly elections, 26 MLAs or 39 per cent of the MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves as per the analysis of the Association for Democratic Reforms.
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