Should Dahi Handi Be An Adventure Sport?

Given the fiercely competitive political environment, observers naturally associated an element of appeasement with the Shinde government's move, Shyam G Menon points out. IMAGE: A devotee breaks......

Covid, economy figure in President Murmu's maiden address to nation

India has helped the world discover the true potential of democracy and the keyword for the country today is compassion for the downtrodden, needy and those on the margins, President Droupadi Murmu......

India reached 1 to 5 lakh Covid-19 cases in just 39 days

It took 110 days for coronavirus infections in the country to reach one lakh, while just 39 days more to go past the five lakh-mark. IMAGE: A health worker walks past a swab collecting booth at a......

Yoga fever grips China ahead of UN International Yoga Day

Yoga fever has gripped China ahead of the third United Nations International Day of Yoga as thousands of Chinese would participate in scores of events organised across the Communist nation,......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......

Smart city challenge: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, are you ready?

At a time when the world is talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of developing ‘100 smart cities’ to accommodate the burgeoning population of India, we take a......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......

IIT-Madras director on IITs and Pan-IIT event

Prof Madaboosi Santanam Ananth is one of the most vocal academicians in the country. He has been the director of IIT-Madras since 2001. Prof Ananth joined as faculty in the department of chemical......

BFI hold mental fitness session for boxers, coaches

IMAGE: Indian boxing's High Performance Director Santiago Nieva expects the national camp to resume at least partially next month. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images The Boxing Federation of......

One of the memorable interviews of Ramakant Achrekar!

'We have the talent, our problem is attitude!' Finding Ramakant Achrekar was as simple as making my way to Shivaji Park and asking the first boy I saw with a bat in his hand where I could find the......

EXPOSED! FIFA scandal stinks up the Caribbean

‘There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today’ Activists from advocacy group Avaaz demonstrate near the Hallenstadion, in Zurich. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters......

India beat France 4-3 in hockey Test

Ace drag-flicker Sandeep Singh continued his red-hot form and struck twice as India defeated France 4-3 in the keenly-contested first hockey Test at the National Institute of Sport and Expert......

Medal a tough ask for Indian pugilists

The exploits of Dingko Singh in the Bangkok Asian Games and Mohammad Ali Qamar's gold medal in the Manchester Commonwealth Games may have made the worldtake notice of the Indian pugilists but an......