US-based YouTube star Vidya Vox says that, while growing up, she tried to shun her Indian heritage as she was often bullied in school. But she is now "100 per cent" proud of her roots and feels it is great to be an Indian in the US right now....
One way for India, along with Japan, Germany and Brazil, to get permanent membership of the UN Security Council is to take this without assuming the veto power, Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini said here on Thursday....
India seems like a "jungli" country amidst the unending row over "Padmavati", says "Haraamkhor" director Shlok Sharma, whose own movie had run into trouble with the censor board for showing a romantic relationship between a teacher and a student....
Environmentalist Sunita Narain, who heads the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and is a member of the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), says the environment challenges we confront are progenies of "a conspiracy of silence"....
It's that time of the year again when our sentiments are hurt, and it is acceptable to temporarily suspend liberal democracy because of it. The latest victim of the now-ubiquitous tyranny of hurt sentiments has been Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Padmavati", which has been accused of twisting historical "facts". After a series of unfortunate events over the las...
The Trump Administration, the House Committee on Ways and Means, and the Senate Committee on Finance have developed a unified framework for tax reforms. According to the proposed tax reforms document, this framework will deliver a fiscally responsible tax reform by broadening the tax base, closing loopholes and growing the economy. I h...
Another point Francis always stressed from the very beginning of his pontificate, is ‘equality’ of all as brothers and sisters. To do justice to his title, ‘Servant of servants’ he went to the extent of putting himself one step below the laity, in the present pyramidal Church structure....
About five years ago, when Financial Times journalist and author Victor Mallet began living in Delhi, he was shocked to discover that the Yamuna -- "this beautiful river of Indian legend and art" -- was chocked with untreated sewage and industrial waste after it had passed through the city on its way to Mathura, Agra and on to join t...
I want to become a pilot." When she instinctively answered a question at an event over a decade ago, the dream of a humble bakery worker's daughter had started growing wings. Hijab-wearing Syeda Salva Fatima is now all set to join an airline and is one of the four Muslim women in India who hold a Commercial Pilot's Licence (CPL)....
Even as camera-friendly and Internet-savvy Prime Minister Narendra Modi waxes eloquent on his "Beti Padhao Beti Bachao" campaign, the right-wing fringe elements openly threaten a leading actress -- an inspiration and role model for thousands of young Indian girls -- under his government's nose. Modi and his government have done nothing but ma...
