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United Nations, Feb 8: Security Council reform negotiations have begun with a focus on points of accord by looking at the relationship between it and the 193-member United Nations General Assembly in a bid to smoothen the way for dealing…

Shot, strangled, burnt and stoned -- over a thousand women are victims of honour killings annually in Pakistan, says the country's first Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who is in the Oscar race yet again for her latest…

As the suicide of Rohith Vemula puts the focus back on the contentious issue of Dalit rights, former IAS officer and author P. Sivakami says that the community is denied even the minimum human rights. The critically acclaimed author and…

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.…