Dhola-Maru saga in Khoobsurat

with Chinese PremierLi Keqiang in Delhi, Photo: PIB It has become fashionable to blame Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for everything that goes wrong in India. But in doing so, we lose sight of the many occasions on which he has steered the country ...

GUJRAT, May 22: A local court on Wednesday granted bail to former Gujrat district nazim Syed Noorul Hasan Shah of Kulewal Syedan in a land grab case. Shah had been accused of occupying a property of his opponents, the Dhola group, in Lalamusa.

Black-shouldered kite. Photo: Ihtisham Kabir About a year ago I was driving through Brahman baria when I noticed an unusual bird sitting on the roadside power line. It had the beak, talon and sharp looks of a raptor; for a second I thought it might ...

GUWAHATI, April 28 A new and dangerous trend of drug trafficking has come to light in recent times and the Barak valley area of Assam has become one of the main transit routes for such trafficking. In recent months, major hauls of medicines were ...

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that poor families will be provided wheat at Rs1 per kg and rice at Rs2 per kg from fair price shops in the State from June 2013. Iodised salt will also be provided to BPL and Antyodaya families at the ...

A sudden wet spell swept Saurashtra's coastal regions for the second consecutive day, bringing much-needed respite from the scorching heat. Weather took a U-turn and downpours accompanied by cyclonic winds rampaged through Bhavnagar and Amreli ...

The entry of a flamboyant camel asking its king to ride on its back makes the young and old in audience give in to the charm of believing that the animal is real! Clapping in tandem with the background score of Dhola baitho maari peeth pe main tadpad tadpad ...

In its 11th edition, Ishara International Puppet Festival's line-up features a vibrant list of rod and string shows. Puran Bhat chatted with Prerna Sharma the form is dying in villages The dancing dolls represent a life full of colour and fun, but ...

Jagdeep Singh takes us around Shekhawati's exquisite haveli culture, which displays frescoes based on traditional myths, along with later ones that reflect British influence This semi desert region in north Rajasthan is situated entirely within the ...