Ten-year-long fast for Afspa's repeal
GN Bureau | June 20, 2011
The election of the vice president will take place on August 5, said the Election Commission of India on Thursday. The term of vice president Hamid Ansari ends on August 11. "The date of polling will be August 5. Counting will be done on
It was big. It was energetic. It was emotional and soul awakening. It was the need of the hour. Its message was loud and clear. But #NotInMyName cannot be in my name. The #NotInMyName protest is a demonstration that was scheduled in Delhi and in some 21 cities across the country on June 28
Darjeeling and the neighbouring areas are burning once again after the fire of the demand for Gorkhaland state was ignited by the West Bengal government’s provocative action in trying to impose Bengali language on the Gorkhali speaking majority in the hill districts in the north of the state. Three p
India is increasingly turning to defence diplomacy to gain strategic depth in its neighbourhood and beyond, a move that is expected to checkmate China’s muscular domination. Defence as a tool of diplomacy is helping India to win over friendly countries who are currently witnessing a lot of
The Bharatiya Janata Party is today going to town over the Goods and Services Tax (GST). But, there was a time in the recent past when the party opposed it tooth and nail, with the Gujarat government, then led by Narendra Modi, describing it as “retrograde in nature and completely against the tenet
There is not even a drop of water in Cholavaram reservoir, says an officer from Chennai metropolitan water supply and sewerage board. The Cholavaram reservoir, one of the main water sources to Chennai, currently has zero million cubic feet (mcft) of water, according to data provided by Chennai me
