While a leisurely menage a trois is on between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bill Gates and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, India is in painful labour. Not knowing whether we together will birth a golden future or our own economic collapse, Indians are strapped into electric...
As a working professional, I want to ask our revered Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who changed your notes Modi? Did you get your “notes” changed before portentous 8 pm announcement? Or did you once again lead by example and convert all your notes beforehand? Perhaps...
Remembering the former prime minister on his 85th birth anniversary. In the summer of ’98, my extended family gathered in our Allahabad home. I was only eight years old but it was clear to me that the room was a battlefield. My aunts, grand-aunts, uncles had...
BJP MP Shyama Charan Gupta, at the centre of a controversy for defending tobacco products, has rejected foreign studies linking smoking to cancer and sought domestic research on an Indian product such as the beedi. BJP MP Shyama Charan Gupta, at the centre of a controversy...
Dr Vanada Shiva, an internationally renowned activist, is an authority on organic farming and farmers’ movement. Here are the excerpts from her interview with Hindustan Times. Dr Vanada Shiva, an internationally renowned activist, is an authority on organic farming and farmers’ movement. Author of over 20...
Delhi University has changed the research supervisor of a St Stephen’s college student who had alleged sexual harassment by her guide after Union HRD minister Smriti Irani intervened in the matter. Delhi University has changed the research supervisor of a St Stephen’s college student who had...
Arrest of Sanjay Singh’s estranged son Anant latest in the dispute over coveted property. The battle for control over the Bhupati Bhavan palace between Congress MP Sanjay Singh and his first wife Garima could well impact the political future of Amethi, the high-profile parliamentary constituency represented...
Being a Thakur, former Indian prime minister VP Singh believed, only made his commitment to society stronger. “Sacrifice is our duty,” he would say to fellow Thakurs. India was all of 10 years old when Acharya Vinoba Bhave introduced the nation to a “modern day Siddharth”...
Sharmistha Mukherjee, daughter of President Pranab Mukherjee, has been apparently shouldered the responsibility of carrying forward the family’s political legacy. On the other hand, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate and former Delhi minister Saurabh Bhardwaj has expectations riding on him to continue his winning streak. The...
According to the complainant, college principal Valson Thampu discouraged her from filing a sexual harassment case, giving her two options instead — go to Delhi University’s grievance redressal cell and jeopardise her degree or term the issue an academic problem. A PhD student of St Stephen’s...