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Planning and design disasters dot what was once a beautiful city. Sheila Dikshit is a lady of refined taste. And yet, the blame must rest with her Government for not caring to inspect the mushrooming monstrosities Lieutenant Governor Tejinder ...

He says the tradition of kite-flying is not fading at all. We have always flown kites, and, Allah willing, will continue to do so. I would have been flying still, its just that I cannot stand with these wounds, Bhai Mian says. His real name is ...

If 10 saplings are indeed being planted for every glorious full grown tree chopped down for socalled development activities — such as metro rail and flyovers—the term urban jungle should have taken on a different connotation altogether by now in ...

Former Miss India Puja Gupta who made her debut with Faltu is now back with two movies Go Goa Gone and Shortcut Romeo. The actress is gung ho about being the only girl in the former. Speaking about the movie, she says, In Faltu I was a nave young girl, just ...

Easter garden parties were a special feature during the days of the Raj. One hundred years ago notices were put out in the newspapers (for donation of clothes and other discarded articles to the poor) through the letters' to the editor column during ...

font size decrease font size increase font size Rate this story (0 votes) India's horrible record of its treatment of untouchables Some sixty years ago Prof. A L Basham published The Wonder that was India. India was then a notion in the minds of ...

New Delhi, March 17: Nitish Kumar has sent out a bold-point feeler that would tremble his BJP allies and tempt the Congress ahead of the 2014 power grab. What he said between the lines and what he left unsaid at a rippling show of strength on the ...

Bhai Mian's spirit is still as high as his kites would fly, even though he cannot stand anymore. High blood sugar won't allow wounds on both his feet to heal. Sitting with bandaged feet in the darkness of his house in , 85-year-old Bhai Mian enjoys ...