Anurup Bhattarcharya with son Abhigyan Any Indian parent one sees while bringing up the kids is that they first start feeding them with their own hands and the meal time with the little ones is such a focused activity that with a lot of patience the child is introduced to various tastes, textures and aromas [...]
Meenakshi Iyer reports from New Delhi New Delhi: The phenomenal rise of Mayawati, the chief minister of India’s most populous and key electoral state of Uttar Pradesh, didn’t happen overnight. After years of playing the Dalit card extremely well and known as the single-most entity that brought a complete paradigm shift in the electoral pattern [...]
Baba Ramdev The Indian government has come under serious questioning from the supreme court as it battles a storm of severe criticism to justify its weekend actions when the Indian police raided the camp of Baba Ramdev and its protesters at the Ramlila Maidan where close to a lakh of Baba’s followers gathered to support [...]
Dr Sujoy Guha RISUG RISUG Procedure For people who do not want more children than they already have and looking for a contraceptive answer there is a new breakthrough in reversible vasectomy with a procedure called RISUG developed in India. RISUG or (Reversible Inhibition of Sperm Under Guidance) is an injectible contraceptive procedure for men [...]
Anna Hazare – a 73-year old social activist from Maharashtra has captured news in India and worldwide as his name is on every one’s lips with heated dinner talks centred around him and his supporters who fought for the institution of anti-corruption Jan Lokpal Bill in parliament. Justice Santosh Hegde (former Supreme Court Judge and [...]
India’s ambassador to the UN, Hardeep Singh Puri India has joined the UN Security Council as its non-permanent member for a two-year term after a gap of 19 years, hoping that the seat at the high table will not only cement its place as a key global player, but also pave the way for becoming [...]
The TV channel wars over bagging the best guests, offering more money to certain key analysts to remain available the entire day thereby undercutting a rival channel, all seem to have paid off. On Sunday, Obama specials on various channels did net TV channels a lot of viewership. A flash analysis by Audience Measurement and [...]
ISLAMABAD: The symbolism, trade deals and fine words of Barack Obama’s courtship of India should be Pakistan’s wake-up call to fix its economy and eradicate militancy to ward off isolation, analysts say. The US president declared India a world power, the India-US alliance “one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century” and unveiled deals [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government has condemned the US backing for a permanent seat for arch-rival India on the UN Security Council as “incomprehensible”. A federal cabinet resolution “expressed its serious concern and strong disappointment on the decision of the United States to support a permanent seat for India on the UN Security Council,” a foreign [...]
On Sunday, a 20-year-old student cornered US President Barack Obama into addressing the Pakistan issue, which he kept away from on the first day of his visit to India. At the Gothic quadrangle of St Xavier’s College, Afsheen Irani, from Mumbai’s HR College of Commerce, without mincing words asked, “Why is Pakistan so [...]