Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the United States' Smithsonian Institution conferred Woodrow Wilson Award for public service on Former President APJ Abdul Kalam. Ashok Kumar of Indianexpress.com talks to 'People's President' on the occasion.
In one of worst tragedies in Rajasthan, nearly 150 people were crushed to death in a stampede that took place when thousands of devotees gathered at a 15th century temple in Jodhpur on the occasion of Navaratri festival on Tuesday.
Scripting a new era in bilateral ties, India and France signed a landmark agreement on civil nuclear cooperation that covers supply of reactors and atomic fuel in the first concrete step to bring New Delhi back into the nuclear mainstream
I look for signs of India or Indians. And see none. To live in this day and age without the daily diet of Bollywood masala, cricketing capers, and fellow argumentative Indians seems strange.
A new study has suggested that children of pushy parents become hooked on their hobbies and they even put their interests ahead of school, work, friends or family.
Shiv Sena activists allegedly thrashed Zilla Parishad education and health committee chairman for mentioning party leaders' relatives names in a press release issued in connection with infamous cow scam in Yavatmal.
The country could ill-afford such a situation where innocents are made to pay a price because an incompetent police wants to keep the record books filled.
And yet Patil's continuation raises a different question: What is going to be the criteria for becoming and remaining a minister? Wearing good clothes? Keeping the leader happy? Or should it also have something to do with performance?
The Indian semi-conductor industry lobbied hard and eventually obtained an elaborate package of incentives from the government to enable India to secure a foothold in the global semi-conductor play.