KATTUVILAI (NAGARCOIL): For residents of Mela Kattuvilai, a village of around 100 families near Nagercoil, it was a day of jubilation as its illustrious son V N

"I told them Ali is six years old. They gave me a plastic bag containing 18 kg of body parts and told me 'This is your son; go and bury him,'" said Hassan Ahmad

A great irony, it certainly is. Just a little over three kilometres -- 3.3 kilometres, to be exact -- from the Ashram where the greatest Indian of modern times

Gaza to Damascus, Tehran to Beirut, in Jerusalem, Kyiv, Moscow, Dhaka and Washington… it was a year of chaos all around. What then were the major events that se

A nurse by profession. A music enthusiast by passion. That is 28-year-old Babu Susan who hails from Tiruvannamalai, the spiritual hub of Tamil Nadu. Reading and

MT Vasudevan Nair and I were not close friends who talked or met frequently. But I closely observed him since the beginning of his literary career. Whatever he

I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host of golden daffodils...The great Romantic poet William

It's often argued that tax cuts can stimulate the economy. If so, given India's weakening urban consumption, the question is whether the government should consi

The one and only P Jayachandran Sir. Ours was a 30-year-old relationship. I began as a fan and went on to become someone with whom he would talk almost daily. A

Ahead of the Delhi polls on February 5, the key allies of the INDIA bloc --the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are at loggerheads and the internal rift a

A 28-year-old woman was fatally attacked by her male colleague with a cleaver in the company's parking lot in Pune, owing to a financial dispute. The accused id

GUWAHATI: Murky water and a static water level, despite continuous dewatering, have posed significant challenges to agencies attempting to rescue miners trapped

BHOPAL: A Chinese-made toy drone was reportedly found lying inside the high-security Central Jail premises in Bhopal on Wednesday afternoon.Doctor S Jain e

NEW DELHI: The Centre has sought a report from the Karnataka government after a 72-year-old Bengaluru man allegedly died by suicide after being denied treatment

CHANDIGARH: As the fast-unto-death protest by farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal entered its 45th day on January 9, he wrote a letter to all political parties