A History Lesson

Natural Resources and Ecology Minister Sergei Donskoi set a three-day deadline to draft a plan to evacuate the North Pole-40 floating research station, the ministry said in a statement. "The ice is disintegrating," a ministry spokeswoman told AFP.

Following the latest controversies related to IPL spot fixing and revelations of role of underworld in leveraging ban in sports betting, FICCI has once again reinitiated its call for regulating sports betting in the cricket crazy nation. "Despite several ...

With divorces throwing many a marriage apart, there are those who feel that this institution is in urgent need of an overhaul if it is to remain relevant and not become the sham modern marriages are increasingly ending up as. While many lament that monogamy ...

One of the most urgent questions in economics today is the connection between inequality and growth. That is because one of the big economic facts of our time is the surge in income disparity, particularly between those at the very top and everyone else. Click NEXT to read ...

Voicing concern over attacks on Indian fishermen, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today asked the Centre to take urgent steps for the retrieval of Katchatheevu islet, ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974, besides redrawing the International Maritime Boundary Line. The 1974 ...

The Supreme Court today agreed to give an urgent hearing to a PIL seeking stay on all remaining matches of IPL in view of the spot-fixing scandal. A Bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and Deepak Misra posted the matter for further hearing at 2 p.m. on the PIL ...

NEW DELHI, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh agreed here Monday to jointly develop large-scale cooperation projects, and called for establishing an economic corridor among China, India, ...

There is a strong feeling among India's metropolitan youth that things are getting worse and change is urgently required across a whole spectrum of areas from corruption to education, civic awareness to infrastructure. That's the sobering news from an ...

Several months after the restoration work at BadeshahiAshoorkhana was grounded on "urgent basis", the crumbling monument is yet to be saved. The government had last year sanctioned Rs 21 lakh to the department of archeology and museums (DAM), the custodian of ...