The News Insight - News & Views. Insight. Opinion.

Canadian writer, Alice Munro, who is one of the pioneers in the development of short stories, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 82. Munro, who hails from Wingham, has described the news as "This is so surprising and…

The hoarders and black-marketers are having a great time, as Cyclone Phailin is approaching the Odisha Coast. An artificial crisis has already been created with essential commodities and food items missing from the market even as storm will…

Yuvraj Singh played a match-winning knock of 77* off 35 balls to power India to a six-wicket victory over Australia in the one-off T20 match. Aaron Finch's 89 off 52 balls went in vain, as Yuvi set the Rajkot stadium on fire with his…

Breaking News! It's official now! Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has announced his retirement from Test cricket after playing his 200th Test match, which will be played against the West Indies in November. Sachin has so far played 198 Test…

The Cyclone Phailin has been upgraded to 'very severe', triggering panic in Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. The storm formed over the Bay of Bengal, is centred 820-km southeast of Paradip today. It would hit Gopalpur Coast by the night…

In a major relief to people in Andhra Pradesh, who were languishing without power for the last five days, the electricity employees have called off their strike after talks with the government today. The power employees will resume work…

After a frantic appeal by the BJP leaders from Bihar, President Pranab Mukherjee has cut short his visit to Patna, as it was clashing with Narendra Modi's 'Hunkar Rally' on October 27. President Pranab will now visit Bihar on October 26…

In a shocking development, which triggered concerns across the globe, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been abducted by a group of armed men from a hotel in Tripoli. Zeidan has been taken to an unknown destination. The Libyan…

Even as YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy was forcibly evicted from the fast venue in Hyderabad and force-fed by the doctors at NIIMs, the former refused to accept any kind of treatment, saying he would continue with his fast until the…

Professor Michael Levitt of Stanford University, Martin Karplus of Université de Strasbourg, France, and Harvard University, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for the…