Should India take in more Rohingya refugees?

Extra police were deployed at Spain's annual "Tomatina" tomato throwing festival in the eastern town of Bunol today in the wake of the deadly twin vehicle attacks in Catalonia. A total of 740 security forces were on duty, including police officers, ...

In the Silicon Valley of India, one can use the cryptocurrency to pay for food, buy bus tickets, order stuff online, and even get a haircut, Aditi Phadnis discovers. IMAGE: You can trade, hold and sell your bitcoins through Unocoin for a 1 per cent commission that the company charges when you convert bitcoins into Indian rupees.Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters.   There is nothing about Indiranagar, Bengaluru's middle class suburb, to suggest subversion might be brewing here. Least of ...

PM Narendra Modi is going to sleep in the world's most secure suite during his visit to Israel. The Indian Prime Minister reached Israel on 3 July for a three-day visit. His suite is secured against the “bomb attacks, chemical attacks, ...

Adityanath is just following political precedent as the list of MLCs who have decided to sit it out rather than face bypolls is long. But there were a few outliers like Narendra Modi and V P Singh who used byelections to make an indelible mark in Indian ...

New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday said he will soon launch another round of agitation in Delhi for the appointment of Lokpal, Lokayuktas and for farmers' rights as the Prime Minister is "not serious about rooting out corruption". In a letter ...

Aid to help developing countries fight poverty, hunger, disease and climate change is likely to fall 50 to 70 percent under proposed U.S. budget cuts, a "disaster" for the world's poor, the president of The Rockefeller Foundation has warned. Closing the ...

Earlier this week, Congress veteran Jairam Ramesh, a Congress loyalist close to Rahul Gandhi, did some plain speaking in an interview that got his party, already confused about its place in politics, even more confused about what to make of his comments. As ...

Posted by Equitymaster With the start of 'Shravana', this 5 th month of the Hindu calendar marks the beginning of the festive season every year. Nag Panchami, Narali Purnima, Krishna Janmashtami are the ones celebrated most commonly. However, the most ...

7 years ago, when Snapdeal was launched, it was an offline deals and discount company. Now, in 2017, as the vision of Snapdeal 2.0 is launched, ditching a takeover bid by rival Flipkart , we are witnessing 4th major business model being implemented. Snapdeal ...