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Ebola has spread enough havoc all across the world. With the number of causalities now pegged at more than 1,500, the virus is still not showing any...

It’s extremely unfortunate that the first routine heart and eye checkup of the Indian prime minister at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences...

Travails of the former UPA government are just refusing to stub. Latest, in the now long list of incriminatory disclosures, comes from Vinod Rai, the...

As epitaphs to the Nehruvian behemoth crowd opinion pages of various national and international newspapers, we need to look at the decision, that of...

Oliver Stone’s JFK hit theatres across the world on 20th of December 1991. Based on the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President...

Amidst the flurry of announcements made by prime minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day address was the purported move to dismantle the...

When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, it had appeared to the world, including Americans, that the nation has turned a page in...

In ancient Rome, Julius Caesar was the chief priest of state religion. His wife was suspected of having an affair with a nobleman who was arrested and...

Waving the politics of regionalism and creating a divide is nothing new in India. Take for example,  India’s youngest state, Telangana which conducted...

Delhi has been under central rule for the past six months. After Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal decided to quit office of  chief...

The dark clouds looked dour enough in the early morning sky on 21 July , 2011, in Kolkata, yet many a head turned at the mention of a familiar...

The Himalayan Rivers are once again in the spate. There is news of people and livestock having been affected across the northern frontiers from...