Swami Agnivesh speaks about the Dera-Sikh standoff, which he is attempting to resolve.
The Sikh high priests have called for a Punjab bandh on May 22.
At least 50 people, including over 20 policemen, were injured in violent protests in Bathinda and Sriganganagar in Rajasthan.
If there is one lesson that should be heard by every political party it is that both candidates and campaigners need something more than a famous surname to push them over the winning line. T V R Shenoy lists the lessons of Election 2012.
The Union Budget for 2009-10 presented by the finance minister is on predictable lines. Surely, the finance minister has done a fine balancing act of giving a thrust to growth while trying to contain fiscal imbalance.
A new vernacular search engine on India -- Bhramara -- offering web search interfaces in Kannada and Hindi besides English, has been launched in Bangalore.
Indian cinema has gone from winning two Oscars in all its lifetime -- a lifetime achievement Honorary Oscar for Satyajit Ray, one for Bhanu Hathaiya for Costume Design in Gandhi -- to adding three more in the same day. Wow.
These are the three winners of the Valentine's Day SMS Contest for the most original and creative chat-up lines by our readers!
Coca-Cola and Pepsi, which have triggered books and case studies on the cola war, are ready to battle each other on a new turf in India: fruit drinks. Pepsi is said to be ready with Tropicana Twister, an orange drink, to take on Coca-Cola's Minute Maid, which debuted in India in February and went national in May.
I refused. Sandy, I pointed out is two syllables, like Sandip. If he could say Sandy, he should be able to say Sandip. Over time I've become Sand-ip (as in Sand-hip) but I've stubbornly resisted any creeping Sandy-fication.
The government on Friday approved 32 foreign direct investment proposals worth Rs 181.16 crore (Rs 1.81 billion).
Thirty-two IPOs that have hit the capital market in the first 10 months of calendar year 2005 have collectively seen an erosion of market value worth Rs 3,682 crore after their listing on the bourses.
By any standards, the crowd was far bigger than what the festival has witnessed ever since it began on January 3.
During blind tests in Scotland, most drinkers gave his family business's new single-malt whisky a thumbs up not knowing it came from barley grown in Punjab and Rajasthan in northern India, Rakshit Jagdale said.
'The theory of karma and the principle of dharma go hand in hand,' says Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Venky's India is a contrarian pick in the poultry industry
Increased allocation to commodities by Index Speculators makes returns from such investments far more attractive than from stocks, and thus the markets are crashing, says M R Venkatesh.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the Budget for 2009-10 on July 6. Following is the Budget Speech of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee:
'America's latest post-Cold War tryst with neo-con global political evangelism in Iraq is nearing the end of the trail.'
A profusion of religious architecture spreads over an ancient agrarian landscape in Tamil Nadu, the deep south of India. Guy Trebay takes it in.
Transcript of the weekly market chat with Pranav Sanghavi.
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