A student of Aligarh Muslim University, Shahnawaz Alam was shot dead by local hoodlums following a minor tiff over parking of vehicles. Shahnawaz was shot dead at an eatery near the Aligarh Railway Station, because of the fact there is no alternative...

It is official now. Two hundred and seventy-eight districts out of approximately 604 districts in the country are reeling under drought and agriculture growth and in all likelihood they would be in the negative zone. Going by government estimates, the...

The Centre and state government are locking horns, even as higher education suffers. Education being a sate subject, Centre blames the poor quality on state government. The Centre Government holds states more responsible as 62 per cent of...

About 5000 officers and soldiers died pushing back intruding Pakistani soldiers from the heights of the Himalayas during the Kargil War. But 10 years after,The politics over the Kargil war is refusing to die down..... After almost politically distancing...

The 14th Lok Sabha election registered an unprecedented result for the Left parties. Whether it is Left ruled Kerala or West Bengal, the party showed its first ever poor performance in the last several decades. The result, however, indicated that the...

The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the moon. Launched on July 16,1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr....

Youth was one of the trump cards of the Congress party which paid huge dividends in its unexpected victory in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls and also returning the Party to power with stronger mandate. A year ago when Rahul Gandhi embarked on...

Amid the glimmer and glitz of the 15th Lok Sabha elections, the silent victim in this largest festival of Indian democracy has once again been the fairer gender. Women, who constitute half of the population and electorate, have once again been left...

Poorer the states richer are the netas. The hurly-burly politics appears to have gripped the world’s largest but arguably chaotic democracy which is going into its most important exercise of holding 15th General ElectionsThe days of struggling,...

Come elections and tongues begin to waggle. Responses ranging from tongue-in-cheek to mouth-in-foot and from slip-of-the-tongue to overdrive, begin flying to rake in the poll moolah. The ongoing war of words between Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh...