In the din of hysteria created around the military action on LOC, which was in response to the killing of 18 Indian army jawans in Uri, the issue of anguish of people of Kashmir has been undermined. ...
Walnut farmer Sarabjit (Sarb) Johl was 13 when he migrated with his parents to the US in the early 1960s. Today, he presides over a 1,000 acre farm and a growers' collective that recorded exports of $20 million last year. The icing on the cake, as it were, came earlier this year when he was named Agriculturist of the Year by the California State Fair....
The dry reservoirs -- despite an average monsoon -- of south Karnatakas Cauvery basin illustrate Indias rainfall trends over 65 years: A drop in moderate monsoon rainfall and an increase in extreme events, such as deluges and dry spells, as IndiaSpend reported in April 2015. ...
What followed on the banks of the river is what history remembers as the Battle of Karbala, the central theme of Moharram observances everywhere for the past nearly 1,400 years....
Her journey from being a girl from a small village with starry dreams to becoming Bollywood's "Queen" has been full of twists and turns. Actress Kangana Ranaut, who has faced comments on her figure, her accent or even her brutal honesty, says "everybody, every shape or size" has their time of being celebrated like a trend....
Women journalists, like men, should be judged on the basis of their stories rather than their gender in the male-dominated world of journalism where they face "misogyny and patriarchy" on daily basis, renowned Indian scribes said here on Thursday....
The BJP has done enormous disservice to both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian Army with its vitriolic attacks on Congress and AAP leaders over the surgical strikes on terrorist launch pads across the LoC. Modi's fiat to his colleagues not to talk out of turn is welcome and timely....
I can see your eyes narrow and forehead pucker as you recognize my hand. I can hear the muttered “What†as you read on. There are a hundred little things about you that fill me with wonder and dazzle my intellect, which I would love to talk to you about and, that my dear is the reason behind this communiqué. ...
The Uri attack that killed 19 Indian Army soldiers and the subsequent "surgical strikes" across the Line of Control (LoC) that took out an estimated 35-40 militants has seen the ratcheting up of dangerous rhetoric on both sides of the border...
The five states with the largest proportion of literate women -- Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra -- account for 53 per cent (4.3 million) of all business establishments owned by women nationwide, although no more than 33 per cent of India's women live in these states, according to an IndiaSpe...
