New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Bindu Rana Kapoor was a director in at least 42 companies, many of them investment companies, data accessed shows, some of whom have been named in the FIR registered by the CBI for re
BY PINKI VIRANI
IANS | March 11
Four hangings as splints for a fracturing land. In caste-inequity normative India -- where mythology is becoming history, politically-inconvenient histories b
A woman carries a red long handmade crochet to represent blood alongside others during a protest to demand justice for victims of femicides and gender violence in Guadalajara, Mexico March 7, 2020. REUTERS/Mich
BY SAEED NAQVI
IANS | March 8
It would be unfair to compare the Shaheen Bagh anti CAA, NPR, NRC movement with mass mobilization efforts leading to independence. The movement has no Gandhi le
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) As the world gears up to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi even giving up his social media handles on Sunday to women who matter -- Indian
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By Puja Gupta
New Delhi, March 6 (IANSlife) Meghalaya - with its cotton clouds heaped just above your heads, carpets of green, rich valley floors and glistening fores
A tibetan woman waits to be hired by traders to clean up the freshly picked cordyceps at a cordyceps trade market in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in China's western Qinghai province, June 10, 2019. REU
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An internally displaced Syrian girl inspects outside from a broken window of a van in an IDP camp near Idlib, Syria February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File photo
IDLIB, Syria, March 3 (Re
New York, February 27 (IANS): There are hardly 400 of them left in the world and in a rare visual treat, a Sumatran tiger has been captured on a camera-trap study, giving hope that the critically enda
Sonbhadra, February 26 (IANS): Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh gained sudden prominence after news circulated that the area has a rich vein of gold. The Geological Survey of India (GSI), however,
Kanpur, February 17 (IANS): The Regional Pollution Control Board of Uttar Pradesh has ordered 248 tanneries in Jajmau area of Kanpur to stop their operations from February 19 till further orders, without a
A boy living on the street walks on a wall displaying publicity posters of Golden Globe award-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as a train goes past in Mumbai January 22, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta
Indigenous people are seen during a ceremony to mark one year of the disaster of the tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state, Brazil January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Cr
The sun rises over a smoldering landscape that was burned by a wildfire dubbed the Cave Fire, burning in the hills of Santa Barbara, California, U.S., November 26, 2019. REUTERS/David McNew
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BY FRANK ISLAM
IANS | February 11
In her marathon 2 hours and 46 minutes speech introducing India's 2020 budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman painted an optimistic picture of the Indian economy. She
By Zaffar Iqbal
Jammu, February 10 (IANS) The dossier providing grounds for booking Omar Abdullah under the PSA states that the capacity of the former Chief Minister to influence people for a
An iceberg floats close to Fournier Bay, Antarctica, February 3, 2020. Picture taken February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
GENEVA/BUENOS AIRES, February 8 (Reuters) - A research base in the An
By Anindya Banerjee
New Delhi, February 8 (IANS) With Delhi now having decided whom it wants to handover the baton to rule for the next five years, a loss to either the AAP or the BJP, will d
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By Puja Gupta
New Delhi, February 7 (IANSlife) Tourism New Zealand recently launched its newest campaign '100% Pure Welcome - 100% Pure New Zealand' in the national ca