It's almost a month since British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond visited India, a few days before Mahatma Gandhi's statue was unveiled at Parliament Square in London in the presence of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Call it a coincidence, the visit was appropriately timed on March 12, the day 85 years ago when Gandhi launched his mass sat...
Unconscious acceptance of your current situation -- good or bad -- works better in regulating frustrating emotion, say researchers from Southwest University of China....
He can speak Hindi, and feels every visit to India is like a homecoming. Turkish percussionist Gurkan Ozkan, who is here for the Jodhpur Flamenco and Gypsy Festival, says he almost had tears in his eyes upon landing in Rajasthan, where the globally popular gypsy culture has its roots....
Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis - Indians are facing an unhealthy future burdened with a slew of lifestyle diseases. But instead of expensive medication and therapy, the cure lies in making exercise a compulsory part of everyday life, health experts say....
The poppy plant was grown in India and the opium extracted from it was transported to China. It was the soldiers in the British Indian Army who fought in China in the Opium Wars. The opium trade was the driver of British expansionism in China. These Opium Wars' led to a humiliating defeat of the Chinese resulting in a trade treaty th...
With two-thirds of India's gold held in rural areas, efforts to curb its imports with schemes to monetise holdings or convert them into paper bonds won't have much sheen till the mindset towards physical possession of the precious metal is changed, experts maintain....
A 135-year-old legacy comes to an end! Like in the case of the telegram, India Post has quietly discontinued the traditional money order service, which was an integral part of the department since 1880, facilitating pan-India door-delivery of funds to a payee from over 155,000 post offices....
The Aam Admi Party's (AAP's) suicidal tendencies are bound to help the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) more than any other party because the saffron outfit is politically better placed to exploit them....
Most photographs of the Taj Mahal taken before 2003 show the Yamuna river flowing close to the rear foundation of the edifice, its water in fact lapping the rear wall. But now a park developed by the Archaeological Survey of India, no doubt to beautify the area around it, has distanced the Yamuna by a good 100 hundred yards from the world-famous marble maos...
As a society we don't nurture the opinion of young people and the culture of debating social issues is completely missing, but the rise of social media has empowered people to highlight issues that bother them, said a social media activist....
