Arun Shourie, the senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader, sits today in the Rajya Sabha. He is one of India’s most distinguished journalists, the author of some 24 books. In his last work Are We Deceiving Ourselves Again?, he questions with his...

Appealing to voters to stay away from Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference on Tuesday said it considered holding of polls as a “futile and meaningless exercise”. The Hurriyat had never...

Muslims in the Indian state of Gujarat, who bore the brunt of the religious riots in 2002 say they have been abandoned by the political parties in the on going Indian general elections, BBC reported on Monday. Anti-Muslim riots, sparked off by the...

Centre questions timing of plea on black money

The daughter of a humble government clerk father and a housewife mother, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s meteoric rise in Indian politics caught many unawares. An icon for India’s 160m Dalits - formerly the...

In an election pregnant with hope, this is perhaps the most heartwarming story of all. A former civil engineer from the remote Mawar village of north Kashmir broke with his separatist party on the question of boycott, gave up his job, and contested the...

Pledging complete support to the government in the event of hostilities with India, tribal elders in Pakistan’s restive northwest asked the establishment to end anti-militancy operations in the region and divert troops to the eastern frontier....

There is an interesting case that I want to share with you.I am not sure if you guys are aware of it but last year researchers at Google released a paper at the Usenix conference titled “The Ghost in the Browser”.

A cricket ball has two hemispherical sides and a seam running between them in a circle (unlike the 3-dimensional curve of a baseball seam). Bowlers, when releasing the ball, usually try to keep the seam vertical. Airflow across the two sides of the ball...

The number of tiger attacks on people is growing in India’s Sundarban islands as habitat loss and dwindling prey caused by climate change drives them to prowl into villages for food, experts said.