A group of educated Muslims is planning to float a pressure group which will subsequently lead to a pan-India political party to take care of the community's interests in a country where it constitutes 14 percent of the 1.2 billion population....
Claiming that the central government has decided to abandon the Sethusamudram shipping channel project, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Monday sought the Supreme Court's permission to withdraw his petition against the project....
There is broad support around the world for many of the basic tenets of democracy, according to the Washington based think tank Pew Research Centre's survey of 40,786 adults in 38 countries from April 5 to May 21, 2015. ...
The sex-enhancing drug Viagra may help people at risk for diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity in them, a first-of-its-kind study has revealed....
There has been a nine-fold increase in deaths due to terrorism globally, rising from 3,329 in 2000 to 32,685 in 2014, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2015 report by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a think-tank based in Sydney, Australia....
The horrific Paris terror attack of November 13 is a "wake-up call" for countries indifferent to this rising global threat to take stern action against perpetrators and this will be raised at the UN Security Council this week, the French envoy to India has said....
Child rights activist and Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Shantha Sinha says it is "absolutely absurd" to say that returning state awards as a show of dissent in the ongoing debate over intolerance in the country was " a paid propaganda". ...
An Indian-origin billionaire from Kerala is so much in love with his roots that he wants his fellow businessmen in the Middle East to realise why this place is described as God's own country....
Drinking a mix of apple cider vinegar and water before eating helps in increasing the sensitivity to insulin and reducing the spike in blood sugar in those with pre-diabetes as well as type 2 diabetes while drinking green tea can calm chronic inflammation that increases the risk of heart attacks, says an expert....
By promising, in response to a query in London, that the law will not spare those disturbing social harmony in the land of the Buddha and Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken much of the sting out of the complaints of those protesting against the supposedly prevailing "intolerance"....
