Meet India's centenarian WWII hero

Lt Col Sumer Singh, who has fought the Germans, the Japanese, the Afghans and the Pakistanis in various battlefields, says he wants to live even longer. Lieutenant Colonel Sumer Singh (retd), a......

IN PHOTOS: Welcome to the temple of rats!

Shahnawaz Akhtar visits Karni Mata temple near Bikaner where scores of devotees turn up every morning to seek blessings from the deity and her favourite rats. Legend has it that the rats of the......

Bikaner House, Delhi's most elegant address

When Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje Scindia decided to convert her government's capital outpost into a hub of culture, she transformed Bikaner House into Delhi's premier cultural space, notes Kishore......

REWIND: India over the weekend!

Events that shaped the nation in the past 48 hours in images.  Farmers from Siddalingapura village in Mysore celebrate Sankaranthi (Pongal) festival by jumping bulls on the fire, on Saturday.......