What no party in UP wants to talk about

None of the political parties in UP has any effective plans to create jobs, reports Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.   The only vehicle absent from the melange of traffic on the roads of Uttar Pradesh......

Gallery of the strange: Weird, wild and strange photos

These 12 photographs show what  a mad, mad world we live in!   A man carries his wife over an obstacle while competing in the Wife Carrying Championship to mark Russia Day and City Day......

Finally, frugal is fashionable

Having grown up with customary Indian thriftiness, Shobhan Bantwal is amused and heartened by America's shift to recycling Illustration: Dominic Xavier It is interesting, even amusing, to note how......

Will Arjun Singh have to retire?

If HRD Minister Arjun Singh had his way, he would, by now, have already undone the effect of the recent Allahabad high court judgment quashing the minority status of Aligarh Muslim University. The......

UP seeks to take embassies' help to boost exports

The Uttar Pradesh government will tap the Indian embassies in the US and European countries in its bid to double merchandise shipments to Rs 3 trillion in the next 4-5 years. Photograph: Aly......

Exports rise 5.37% in Jan; trade deficit narrows to $14.75 bn

The country's exports grew 5.37 per cent year-on-year to $27.24 billion in January 2021, mainly driven by healthy growth in pharma and engineering sectors, according to provisional data of the......

As lockdown eases, hotels ready with new 5-star drill

As several premium hotels such as ITC, Taj and Oberoi reopen after the lockdown in cities such as Bengaluru, Kolkata and Hyderabad, many changes have been made for the safety of guests and staff......

Suspected human hair in tablet cited in Ranbaxy ban

During a visit to a facility of leading drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd last year, US inspectors found that a black fibre embedded in a tablet may have been a hair from an employee's arm,......