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Thrissur (Kerala), Feb 1: Often called an 'iron man' in political circles due to his dour demeanour, CPI-M leader Pinarayi Vijayan nowadays can be seen sporting a smile as he drums up support for his party ahead of the Kerala assembly…

Good news for Indian sport in the last one week. The men's and women's teams have won the Twenty20 cricket series in Australia even as tennis star Sania Mirza claimed her first women's doubles title at the Australian Open, and Pusarla…

Rohith Vemula, a PhD student, focused on the interstellar spaces and Carl Sagan. In a different location, a sewage cleaner looks for live cockroaches in the sewer, which ironically give him a sense of security: he can now clean the sewer…

Why do we call them "wives" when they remember everything we said since 1987? Don't you think "home historians" would make more sense? I was thinking about personal histories after reader Wendy Tong sent me a strange newspaper obituary…

There are four years left for the government target of ensuring all Indians use toilets, but in urban India alone, no more than 30 percent of sewage generated by 377 million people flows through treatment plants. The rest is randomly…

Shimla, Jan 25: The World Bank-funded Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project in Himachal Pradesh has helped preserve natural resources and prevent soil erosion besides ensuring substantial improvement in the local economy. The…

Writers run the risk of didacticism if they turn into activists, says Marlon James, the first Jamacian to win the Booker Prize in 2015. "I think the writer enters a dangerous zone by becoming an activist. Didacticism will destroy a book.…

What have brushing and cleaning your teeth to do with your heart? A lot, say health experts, suggesting that taking care of your teeth and gums will not only help keep oral hygiene or make you smile better but also save your heart from…

The lack of will on the part of the Punjab government and its agencies to curb the activities of unscrupulous immigration and travel agents who lure youth from the state by promising them immigration to western countries has again brought…

One of the most unintended casualties of the terrorist attack at Pathankot has been that the Indian media, or large sections of it, went overboard in giving out the "news" of the "detention of Masood Azhar", the chief of the dreaded…