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A file photo of Balasaheb Thackeray Author Image: B2.jpg Last October, when Maharashtra politician Bal Thackeray died, television channels which had been keeping a close watch on his health immediately started analysing his life and legacy. The next day his ...

Indian politicians simply love statues, monuments and memorials, and they get them built at any expense Makarand Gadgil The Shiv Sena is leaving no stone unturned to find a place to install a memorial of the late Bal Thackeray. The first choice was ...

The sight of an MP slowly walking out of Parliament while the entire House stood in respect for Vande Mataram, will be difficult to forget. Yet, the BSP's Shafiqur Rahman Barq was simply exercising his rights. The fundamental duties added to the ...

Sudip Guria chose a pair of pyrrhura conures -- of the parrot family, but found typically in Central and South America -- to be his first pets. That was in 2010. Since then, he has bought 30 different kinds of conures at Rs.30,000-70,000 a pair.

Sent to jail for two months and fined Rs.5,000. Twenty years after their crime, this was the sentence handed down last week by a sessions court to two Shiv Sena leaders. This was for their provocative speeches during the Mumbai riots following the ...

Few stories in Mumbai have a neat and easy closure. Among them, the horrific riots and communal viciousness in the weeks that followed the demolition of the must rank high. Those who lived through it in December 1992 and January 1993 know that the ...

Following a rich scholarly life, al-Razi died quietly at his home in Rey, surrounded by his students. Mahendra Singh Dhoni—the closest India has to a living god—is discovering the world has become somewhat touchier in the millennia since.

Delhi high court verdict on one of the cases of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, convicting 5 persons and acquitting top Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, almost three decades on, has once again demonstrated the weaknesses of the state as well as the legal justice ...

Mumbai: After the Janata Dal ( United) handed the BJP an eight-month deadline to announce its prime ministerial candidate for next year's general elections, another ally, the Shiv Sena, has suggested that the party name the leader who will lead the ...