The tiny northeast Indian state of Tripura has turned into the second largest producer of natural rubber in the country largely because several hundred former militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) were...

As a law abiding Muslim of India, my head hung deep down in shame as I had read the news of Shafique-ur-Rehman Barq, BSP member parliament, leaving the hall while Vande Mataram, the national song, was being played. On his...

Sri Lanka posing a challenge to Kerala ayurveda

Guruvayoor : Its decades long ethnic conflict over, Sri Lanka is steadily emerging as a major competitor to Kerala's ayurvedic system of medicine, a leading industry expert says. But officials are quick to point...

Thiruvananthapuram: It was a hectic week for all those who matter in Kerala politics. Film-star-turned-politician K.B. Ganesh Kumar was Monday forced to quit the Oommen Chandy government as forest minister after his estranged...

Dr. Sally Anne Davies is the chief medical officer of Britain. In her annual CMO's Report submitted recently, Dr. Davies deals with a very serious threat to humankind. This is the emergence of a situation in which, antibiotics,...

It's been a few days since the worst denial-of-service attack in the internet's three-decade history. A 300-gigabit-per-second torrent of traffic flooded the networks of Spamhaus, and the Internet's major switches in London,...

For the next eight months Indian cricketers can relax and savour the best ever series victory in their 80-year Test history against an Australian team dubbed the worst in recent memory. Without getting unduly excited about...

Srinagar: The deadly fidayeen (suicide attack) strike in Srinagar Wednesday, which occurred after three years, has brought back gory memories of blood and bombs. Many in the state government, however, say it was a one-off...

During my first week as the United States' Secretary of State, I had the honor of meeting with a group of courageous women from Burma. Two were former political prisoners, and although they had all endured incredible hardship...

Thiruvananthapuram: On the eve of International Women's Day, Kerala is mulling over the use of electronic gadgets for the protection of women, a state minister revealed Wednesday. 'We have received proposals of an electronic...

Kill them before they come

Countless British Asian couples from Britain are travelling to the Indian subcontinent. These people are coming to India in order to destroy the female fetuses, which the women are carrying. They are middle-class or upper...

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's claims to be a reformer may have received a glancing blow with the 10 percent surcharge on the super-rich in Thursday's budget proposals, but the fall of the axe on 42,800 people who earn...

So in spite of some scathing pre-Oscar reviews criticising it for turning a real political episode into a populist drama, actor-turned-director Ben Afflect's 'Argo' won the golden statuette for the best picture. And...

Ahead of BlackBerry Z10's launch date in India, the debate no longer seems to be if it is a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down. The buildup during the weeks after the BB10 launch in the advanced markets has settled that debate for...

With the resurfacing of the Suryanelli sex scandal case, which has rocked Kerala off and on since 1996, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien has come under a cloud of suspicion again. The case arose out of the abduction...