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Tao Porchon Lynch, a 100-year-old yoga instructor who was awarded Padma Shri this year.

Clocking a century

Tao, a 100-year-old, is an India-born American citizen who has no plans of stopping practising and teaching yoga.

12 May 2019 2:32 AM IST

The worlds largest democratic exercise did not limit itself to the usual fiery rhetoric, chopper-hopping campaign trails or unabashed mud-slinging at each other. (Photo: File)

What are India polls without a few snakes, slaps and kisses?

There were shoes, slaps, snakes and more to add more flavour to these unbearably long elections.

11 May 2019 1:42 PM IST

BJP or Congress won't get majority, Pinarayi Vijayan after meet with...

The Kerala Chief Minister believes regional parties will play a prominent role in next govt.

7 May 2019 1:04 PM IST

Freedom after 500 days: Timeline of case against 2 Reuters Myanmar journalists

Freedom after 500 days: Timeline of case against 2 Reuters Myanmar...

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were released as part of an amnesty of 6,520 prisoners by President Win Myint.

7 May 2019 10:48 AM IST

Yogendra Puranik

So much to be done in India, says a desi neta from Japan

Yogendra Puranik, a naturalised Japanese, secured 6,477 votes, the fifth-highest of the 226,561 valid ballots cast on...

30 April 2019 1:28 AM IST

The nine states include Bihar (5), Jammu and Kashmir (1), Jharkhand (3), Madhya Pradesh (6), Maharashtra (17), Odisha (6), Rajasthan (13), Uttar Pradesh (13) and West Bengal (8). (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Mumbai, Hindi heartland states vote in phase 4 of 2019 Lok Sabha...

With phase 3 of polling, India has voted more than half of the constituencies across the country.

29 April 2019 7:08 AM IST

She has pioneered work on safe and effective rotavirus vaccines that are now being used to prevent disease in Indian children and which will soon be used in vaccination programmes around the world. (Photo: Dr Gag

Dr Gagandeep Kang, first Indian woman Fellow of Royal Society in 360...

She aims to get the best of vaccine to market and even push them into state immunisation programmes.

24 April 2019 2:08 PM IST

The counting of votes will take place on May 23. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

All you need to know about the biggest phase of 2019 Lok Sabha...

All parliamentary seats in Gujarat, Kerala, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa and Daman and Diu will vote on Apr 23 in a...

23 April 2019 7:07 AM IST

On August 5, 2018, Alam was arrested and detained for his interview to Al Jazeera and posts on social media that criticised the Bangladesh government. (Photo: AFP)

Under Bangladesh govt corruption will continue unabated: Shahidul Alam

Alam exclusively shares his experience, what he had gone through during detention and talks about the expectations from...

17 April 2019 2:54 PM IST

Today, he has put India on the world map by becoming Indias fastest distance ice skater in long-track speed skating. (Photo: Vishwaraj R Jadeja)

On thin ice? Not at all, says India's fastest distance ice skater

What was another sport with wheels that could harness Jadeja's mastery over the flatboard? It was the Winter Olympic...

15 April 2019 2:24 PM IST

Economist and activist Jean Dreze was detained and interrogated earlier on Thursday on charges of holding an event without permission in Jharkhands Garwa area. (Photo: File)

Before we could say chowkidaar', we were in police station: Jean Dreze

Speaking about future, Dreze said work will continue as before and is not the first time that a meeting of this sort was...

1 April 2019 1:17 PM IST

A Kerala scientist Dr A Seema

Intimate revelations

A Kerala scientist wins the highest civilian honour for women for designing a low-cost brassiere that detects breast...

24 March 2019 1:01 AM IST