Varanasi dares to dream: All it took was one election

The long-term plans for Varanasi will take time to materialise but what has changed is the mood, says Aditi Phadnis Earlier, the two railway stations in Varanasi -- Mughalsarai and Varanasi Cantt,......

President Pranab's address to Parliament: The transcript

President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday addressed the first joint sitting of Parliament as mandatorily required under the Constitution after the general elections. The address is the political,......

Amarnath yatra ends, Charri Mubarak reaches shrine

The 39-day Amarnath Yatra concluded on Thursday as the 'Charri Mubarak', the mace of Lord Shiva, reached the 3880-metre high Himalayan cave shrine amidst Vedic chants. Mahant Deependra Giri, the......

Over 5 lakh pilgrims visit Amarnath cave

Over 500,000 pilgrims have so far visited the holy Amarnath cave shrine in the Himalayas, although only 3.50 lakh had registered themselves from different parts of the country for this year's......

India needs $1.5 trillion for infrastructure: Arun Jaitley

The government intends to connect seven hundred thousand villages with roads by 2019 as part of a massive modernisation plan India needs over $1.5 trillion in investment in the next 10 years to......

'NRIs investing in India should be given dual citizenship'

Non-resident Indian industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has called for granting Indian passports to expatriates who invest a certain minimum amount in industries in India and help ignite the engine of......

Can 'Toil-o-preneurs' solve India's sanitation woes

On the one had are sanitation oriented social enterprises and on the other are awareness raising campaigns by government, writes Rajni Bakshi. A law that bans toilets where human excreta has......

Success story of an extraordinary social entrepreneur

He quit his job as a physics professor to educate the residents of Chennai the importance of saving water. His tireless efforts bore fruit when J Jayalalithaa, the then chief minister of Tamil......