New policy on kids’ health
Intending to provide integrated services for the holistic development of all children from the pre-natal period to six years, the government is all set to declare a national policy for early childhood care and education.
It’s rarest of rare, death fitting: Experts
The fate of the four men convicted for the “cold-blooded” gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student in December last year hangs in the balance with the trial court set to pronounce its order on the quantum of sentence on Wednesday.
Parents of victim want nothing short of death
Shortly after the court pronounced its verdict declaring all the four accused in the December 16 gangrape case guilty, her family members expressed satisfaction with the outcome. Now, all they want is the death penalty for the four men.
‘Red’ Khirbhawani water causes worry
The water of the spring at the sacred Hindu shrine of Khirbhawani outside Srinagar has turned red, the phenomenon witnessed after more than half a century is being seen by the priests as a “bad omen.”
SC commutes death of man who killed kin
The Supreme Court has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to a man for killing his wife and two sons, saying he had killed his family on account of abject poverty and is not a danger to society.
Haute & sexy vintage styles
With summer packing its bags, festivities in the air and wedding season peeking through the window, it’s busy time for shoppers. And for most of us, shopping starts and ends with clothes.
Answers to soul call
From past few years, Kathak dancer and choreographer Aditi Mangaldas had been thinking about the relationship between man and woman — the ideas of masculinity and how brutality and hatred are deeply e
Riding the chuckle train
It was a night that left Delhi comedy lovers in splits as some of the biggest names in the world of comedy came together to celebrate the Delhi leg of Comedy Central Chuckle Festival 2013.
‘No personal info under RTI’
The Bombay high court recently ruled that under the Right To Information (RTI) Act, disclosure of personal information with respect to service record, Income-Tax returns and assets of an individual is
Night schools to get midday meals too
The Union government has accepted Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan’s demand to start such an initiative wherein students studying in night school will soon get free meals on the lines of t