NEW DELHI: India's future lives in the cities.
A report released by the United Nations has said that the world's second largest populous country in the world will add nearly 500 million people to its already congested cities by 2050.
The ‘2011 revision of world urbanization prospects' report (...)
NEW DELHI: Indian and US navies are gearing up for a maritime exercise with an eye on anti-piracy and executing disaster relief operations.
The Malabar exercise is the16th bilateral exercise between the two Navies and will be held off the coast of south east India off the coast of Tamil Nadu (...)
NEW DELHI: India's communists have capitalist ills, a leaked internal political report of the country's most powerful mainstream leftist faction, the Communist party of India (Marxist), has revealed.
The report which presented at the CPI's (M)20th party congress held at Kozhikode, in the (...)
NEW DELHI: The India unit of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has asked the Government of India make it mandatory that meat, poultry and other non-vegetarian products have warning signs on the lines of those displayed on cigarette packs warning against the health dangers of (...)
NEW DELHI: A new government panel could put virgin forests, wildlife sanctuaries, river basins, bio-diversity hotspots under a protective cover, making them out of reach for the rampaging mining industry in India.
The union ministry for environment and forest (MoEF), the custodian of India's (...)
NEW DELHI: India witnessed a surge in women tourists over the previous year with the fairer sex accounting for as many as 2.3 million out of the nearly 5.7 million tourists who visited India this year.
The figures gave women tourist arrivals a growth of12.5% as against the 11.8% growth in (...)
NEW DELHI: A peon in a government-run orphanage in Allahabad in the Northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been arrested for allegedly raping three minor girls, aged six to nine, over the last few months sending waves of horror through the country.
The police have arrested the peon (...)
NEW DELHI: India's electronic waste (e-waste) generation has jumped eight times post 2004 even as an ill-prepared government is still groping in the dark in how to deal with the issue.
A report by India's Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, revealed that by the end of 2012, India will be (...)
NEW DELHI: Tobacco and tobacco-related products are responsible for nearly 80% of all oral cancer cases and 40% of all cancer deaths in Indian men, two studies released in the last week have revealed.
The studies published in reputed medical journals The Lancet and World Tobacco Atlas, also said (...)
NEW DELHI: In a case that has shocked India, a doctor couple in New Delhi locked up their 13 year-old domestic maid while holidaying in Thailand. They have now been arrested after successfully evading the police for six days.
The married couple, both specialized doctors – an endocrinologist, (...)
NEW DELHI: India's forests are not as healthy as the government claims they are, experts who have questioned the government's definition of a forest have said.
The experts, who have raised the issue over the methodology said the government has been indulging in jugglery to paint a rosy (...)
NEW DELHI: Paving way for a resolution of the hostage crises, the government of Odisha, a state in Eastern India has agreed to swap 27 prisoners for the release of an Italian tour guide and a local elected representative taken hostage by armed Maoist insurgents.
The nearly month long hostage (...)
NEW DELHI: India's top criminal investigating agency on Thursday arrested an opposition legislator for the cold blooded murder of a local liquor smuggler, which was later masqueraded as a police encounter killing.
Five time Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Rajasthan, in Western India (...)
GOA: Already one of the leading beach tourism destinations in the country, a tiny tropical state in Western India, is now eyeing the global ocean cruise market.
Speaking to Bikyamasr.com here, chairman of the Mormugao Port Trust P Mara Pandian also said that a special deep water berth was being (...)
GOA: A controversial tax on gold proposed in budget by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has had the ruling Congress party in a spin.
A Congress upper house MP Shantaram Naikhas criticized his party's finance minister's proposed tax and duty on gold as a tax on Indian culture.
“Indian (...)
NEW DELHI: How and when was the much revered Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi popularly called as Mahatma Gandhi declared the Father of the Nation in India? This question by a nonchalant school girl from Lucknow in North India has left officials from the Prime Minister's office flummoxed.
Aishwarya (...)
NEW DELHI: Honor killings, witch burnings and dowry deaths make up the dark shades of the grim picture UN special rapporteur on summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns will take back after a 12-day visit to India to investigate human rights violations.
Heyns was on a special mission to (...)
NEW DELHI: Indian parliament's committee on defense on Friday grilled top army as well as civilian defense ministry officials, after one of India's leading newspapers claimed that an unannounced army maneuver by a few key army units towards the national capital, rang alarm bells in the civilian (...)
New Delhi: An Algerian terrorist who was a Pakistan-trained member of the Al Qaeda, had been ordered to attack the Indian Embassy in Paris this year, a leading French newspaper has claimed.
The Le Monde, one of France's most popular newspapers, quoting French intelligence sources however said (...)
New Delhi: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton's crack of the whip vis a vis India's oil imports from sanction-hit Iran appears to have worked.
Keen on making up the for the likely drop in the import of Iranian crude, India is now cozying up to United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq as well as Saudi (...)
NEW DELHI: In perhaps a first, as many as 25 filmmakers including four from India, have put their heads and directorial skills together and made a film ‘The Owner' which premieres worldwide on May 25.
Even if the film does not find favor with audiences, it could well make its way into the (...)
NEW DELHI: Techies at a development center of United States software giant Microsoft in the Eastern Indian city of Hyderabad have developed spectacles which could possibly help the blind navigate.
The hi-tech glasses, named ‘Kinectacles' is among 60 innovations designed by techies in India and (...)
NEW DELHI: Italy has recalled its envoy from New Delhi and has expressed “strong displeasure” at the Indian government's inability to hand over two arrested marines, accused of murder, to Italian custody.
Italian deputy foreign minister, Staffan de Mistura, said that the decision to recall the (...)
New Delhi: Taming the mighty Mount Everest by climbing the world's highest mountain peak is no longer a feat. Apparently, hurtling down its icy, steep, rugged peaks is.
A six member team of the rugged Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a specialized para-military force which was created to guard (...)
NEW DELHI: Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari personal offerings to the tombs of a dead Indian saint and an exiled Indian emperor have been officially ‘pinched' from public funds from the Pakistan government treasury.
A Pakistan government spokesperson has said the $1 million donation to one of (...)