External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has said a pilot project to construct 1,000 houses for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), ie. Tamils, in northern and eastern Sri Lanka will begin soon.

Hit & run : Court terms cops’ contention frivolous, but remands Kothari to police custody till Sept 4 Officers from the Marine Drive police station on Thursday told a magistrate’s court that they needed the custody of the 30-year-old...

An indefinite curfew has been imposed in parts of the southern Indian city of Hyderabad after one person was killed in religious unrest. More than 75 people have been injured in clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the old city area that began on...

A student was disallowed from attending classes at a church-run school in Kerala after he reportedly refused to participate in a protest rally organised by the local parish against a controversial textbook, his father said.

US-based Working Mother magazine has recently evaluated the presence and prominence of coloured women in the US corporate world and has drawn up a list of the best companies. The list has been made primarily on the basis of diversity programmes for such...

For 60 years, China has humiliated India at every step. It betrayed Jawaharlal Nehru’s naive trust in a Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai friendship. It treacherously attacked India from Tibet which Nehru had implicitly left to the Chinese, humiliating the...

After, again, a very busy week I rushed to Amsterdam’s Central Station on Friday evening to meet a fellow blogger who shall remain nameless. We (I?) decided to go to a Greek restaurant which was not bad at all, and the conversation and the wine...