Actress Emma Watson at the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Beverly Hills, California, U.S., 04/03/2018. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
Watson, Murad and women's rights leaders from more than 20 countries hav
New Delhi, August 23 (IANS) Just who was Sunanda Pushkar? A businesswoman par excellence, a socialite or a high-profile politician's wife. Just like her death in a hotel room in the national capital on Jan
New Delhi, August 22 (PTI): Amidst raging controversy about the end of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, his daughter Anita Bose Pfaff on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure DNA tests are done on th
By Lt-Gen Harwant Singh (Retd)
IANS
The proposal for appointing a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) has been doing the rounds since the time of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minist
By Shubha Singh
IANS
Prime Minister Narendra Modis two-day visit to Bhutan was aimed at re-engaging with the Himalayan neighbour during his second term in office as part of his ‘neighbourh
By Mohammed Shafeeq
Hyderabad, August 19 (IANS) Since its emergence on the global information technology map in late 1990s, Hyderabad grew as a key economic hub over the last two decades and is current
Kashmiri woman washes clothes in an alley during restrictions after the scrapping of the special constitutional status for Kashmir by the government, in Srinagar, August 14, 2019. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reut
BY D.C. PATHAK
IANS | August 18
Prime Minister Narendra Modi rightly began his Independence Day address by declaring that the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, approved by the two Houses o
By Amit Kapoor
IANS | August 17
In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the issue of population explosion in the country and the need to address it. He added
New Delhi, August 15 (IANS) On I-Day eve, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking exclusively to IANS just days after his government's decision on Article 370 noted how he was troubled and saddened by the f
Devi making phenyl and at her home in Nedumalai village in Tamil Nadu, India July 14, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Anuradha Nagaraj
The artistic mapping project has helped more than 5,000 women
By Sandeep Bamzai
New Delhi, August 13 (IANS) One of the biggest decisions taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the first 75 days of his government is undoubtedly the unshackling of Jammu
New Delhi, August 13 (IANS) The Global Kashmiri Pandits Diaspora (GKPD) has rejected a petition submitted by 64 citizens including Pandits, Sikhs and Dogras condemning the abrogation of Article 370 that gave sp
By VISHAL GULATI
Jammu, August 12 (IANS) Caught in the law and traditions, liberation for the women in real terms came with Jammu and Kashmir becoming the unions territory. A section of
By Akhil Bhardwaj
IANS | August 11
What started as a demonstration by 12,000 citizens against a proposed legislation for extradition of criminal undertrials to China has escalated into a dai
By Sandeep Bamzai
New Delhi, August 11 (IANS) New emergent facts pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir and its Constitutional status from Dr S.N. Busis' laborious six volumes on B.R. Ambedkar
By Deepika Bhan
IANS | August 11
The question is why did Modi chose ‘now to do what he has done with Article370? There was no big election in sight so as to create a build up for electoral
By Anand Singh
New Delhi, August 11 (IANS) The spectre of a split in the country's oldest political party was looming at the Congress Working Committee meeting on Saturday as leaders got emotional
By Nikhil Nanda
IANS
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has once again proved that he is head and shoulders above the run-of-the-mill politicians. His decision in respect of Jammu and Kashmir requ
New Delhi, August 9 (IANS) In a throwback to the past, it is important to note that on November 1, 1947, at a meeting of Governors General of India and Pakistan at Lahore, Mountbatten offered to resolve the J&