UP Waqf Board claims ownership of 115-year-old Varanasi college,

The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board has claimed that a mosque on a college campus here and the land in its vicinity are Waqf properties, a charge rejected by the college administration.......

Entire Prayagraj to become 'no vehicle zone' for Purnima snan

Elaborate arrangements including a special traffic plan have been chalked out for Maghi Purnima on Wednesday and health personnel have been put on alert for the occasion when the month-long......

BJP-AIADMK Tieup: Who Wins, Who Loses

Over the medium and long term, the BJP hopes to devour the AIADMK, they having identified the party as 'ideologically not as sound as the DMK', predicts N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Senior Bharatiya......

Secularism means live and let live: SC on question of regulating madrasas

Observing secularism means to 'live and let live', the Supreme Court on Tuesday said regulating madrasas was in the national interest as several hundred years of the nation's composite culture......

How PSUs are caught between govt and markets

State-owned companies have been set stiff targets to increase accountability as they get ready for divestment. Nikunj Ohri explains why meeting them will be challenging. Illustration: Dominic......

Can Vinod Rai change the fortunes of ailing banks?

Former CAG Vinod Rai said he will not take a single rupee in remuneration from the government for his work. A life in Lutyens Delhi, particularly if you are a high-profile bureaucrat, comes with......

And who will account for the 2% tax

Few right-thinking taxpayers can suffer pangs about the 2 per cent across-the-board cess imposed by the finance minister to ensure primary education and midday meal schemes among the poor, ill-fed,......

Indian American joins Ex-Im Bank's advisory board

The Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank, the official export-credit agency of the United States, has appointed Indian American entrepreneur and investor Frank F Islam, of McLean, Virginia,......

Women's U-19 World Cup: Meet the winners

They can't be anonymous anymore. But, even in a cricket- obsessed India, very few would have heard of them before their campaign in the U-19 World Cup culminated in the country's maiden ICC triumph......

Ranji: Jagadeesan's 2nd season-ton helps Tamil Nadu

Photograph: Narayan Jagadeesan/Instagram Rohilla's fourth first-class ton gives Services solid start Opener Shubham Rohilla struck his fourth first-class hundred to take Services to 279 for 4......