Rajasthan Royals beat Kolkata Knight Riders by six wickets in their Indian Premier League match at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday.

Shobhaa De feels India is going through a Golden Era better and more glorious than the days India saw under Emperor Ashoka.

Staff at India's second largest winemaker are preparing for their 10th annual harvest party in mid-March at a new amphitheatre in the vineyard, which lies in the some of the richest agricultural lands of the western state of Maharashtra.

Watch it if you must; it's not objectionably bad. But there really is nothing at all good about this Race either. Heck, even the horses seem sleepy.

The United Progressive Alliance's last full Budget was to be "people-friendly" and correct these distortions. It has comprehensively failed to do so. Indeed, it continues with the neo-liberal policy orientation and will create more problems than it solves.

A profusion of religious architecture spreads over an ancient agrarian landscape in Tamil Nadu, the deep south of India. Guy Trebay takes it in.

New Zealand all-rounder Jacob Oram has been ruled out of his side's second Twenty20 against England on Thursday after straining a hamstring in the first match. Oram top-scored for New Zealand with 61 in their 32-run loss at Eden Park in Auckland on Tuesday but strained his hamstring while bowling.

Are there actually any real benefits of studying abroad? In a word, yes. And here's why.

We may not have resolved all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle, but we have defined the boundary -- the edges are known, says Ajit Dayal.

As investment bankers in India returned to their offices in India's financial capital, Mumbai, after Christmas and the New Year, they must have suffered from deja vu.

India face a big dilemma on whether to alter their winning combination as they go into the fourth and final Test against Australia in Adelaide.

Global oil shortage is looming large. While the tug-of-war over oil is waging across the world, Hydrogen Regeneration can be a viable option.

ICC might now look at the possibility of adding new mode of dismissal in the rule books - Bucknored. This is the mode that genuinely describes Rahul Dravid's dismissal on Sunday.

The Mumbai traffic police, in a move that runs against the very culture of driving in this city of 18m, have begun cracking down on noisy motorists.

A spike in Maoist violence and tribal people deserting a state-sponsered movement has made matters worse in India's worst Maoist-hit state.

Saawariya is seeing brisk ticket sales, while Om Shanti Om distributors are still negotiating the film's release in multiplexes.

The idea of India under compulsion harmonising its foreign policy with the US global strategies -- militates other powers. Which is why Iran becomes a test case. The world watches us, and it takes us seriously. We shouldn't appear as one-dimensional men.

In a strategy which is very similar to the one in Tibet (especially after the arrival of the train), Beijing plans to change Burma's demography, making the nation a Chinese colony

Having made a mark in the Twenty20 World Cup, Albie Morkel is now eyeing a permanent place in South Africa's Test and ODI squads.

A film critic with The Hindu, 31-year old Sudhish Kamath takes time off work to make movies.

A Sikh man was found dead at his parents' home, less than two months after his wife was killed in an alleged robbery attempt.

The resolution affirmed the importance of the festival in the lives of millions of Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs in the United States

China, which is closely watching Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's current visit to India, on Wednesday hoped that Tokyo will play a "positive" role in safeguarding regional peace, stability and development.

former world number one Marat Safin was knocked out by South Korea's Lee Hyung-taik/

Swati Verma parachuted into stardom soon after her maiden Bhojpuri film Sasurari Zindabad hit the marquee. Here she talks about her tryst with fame and why family support is important.

When do you use 'practise' and when do you use 'practice'? We continue with our English blooper series.

"My guess is by not hosting the Asian Games, we probably saved ourselves something of the order of Rs 5000 crore," Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Sunday.

'To belittle the general, to chastise him like an errant school boy -- that was the last thing on Cheney's mind.'

G K Pillai, chairman of India's Board of Approval for SEZs, demystifies SEZs and the controversy surrounding them.

A two-year-old girl was among five other children, aged between two and 12 and residing in Dwarka of south-west Delhi, who went missing between 5 pm and 7 pm on last Saturday, Child Helpline officials told PTI.

Holding Pakistan responsible for South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation's 'underperformance', India has said the bloc was nowhere near achieving its potential.

The Proteas won the third and final Test by five wickets to take the series 2-1.

Banerjee is under treatment to correct her dehydration, hypoglycaeamia and other nutritional deficiencies.

In the second part of his interview with Managing Editor Sheela Bhatt, Ashwell Prince talks about his fitness regimen, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.

It is not the border, nor Tibet and the Dalai Lama issue, but the growing relationship between Pakistan and China which gives the Indian Mandarins at the East Asian desk at the Ministry of External Affairs a headache.

South Africa beat India by 106 runs in the third ODI go 2-0 up in the five-match series.

Claude Arpi looks at the issues that challenge Sino-Indian relations.

India's new high commissioner to Pakistan Satyabrata Pal on his stint in South Africa.