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The love of dancing forms the binding link between a group of extraordinary people who refused to remain underdogs and embraced dance as a viable form of livelihood, exercise and fulfilment.
It turns out that the Rajya Sabha may have passed a bill to increase the number of members in the Andhra Pradesh State Legislative Council from the existing 50 to 58, on the back of an elementary arithmetical error.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has moved the Supreme Court challenging a special court order summoning him as one of the accused in the coal scam case.
"Chitthi na koi sandes/ Jaane woh kaunsa des/ Jahaan tum chale gaye..."
These words from a popular Bollywood song are making the rounds at Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, as cheeky posters announcing that Rahul Gandhi is "missing" have resurfaced.
Main News
Official auditor CAG has hinted that the previous Congress government in Haryana had extended undue favours towards party chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, in his land dealings in the state.
India and Australia may be meeting in the heart of Moore Park, but the atmosphere at Thursday’s World Cup semifinal is expected to be more Surat and less Sydney as over 70% of the tickets appear to have been bought by Indian fans. In India too, all-day prayer meetings are being organised to ensure the team’s success.
Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav’s son Shailesh Yadav, the key accused in the cash-for-posts Vyayapam scam, was found dead at his official residence in Lucknow.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has insisted that dissidents Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan quit the party's national executive ahead of a key meeting later this week. The feud in the party, it seems, is far from over.
Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Aasiya Andrabi was on Wednesday booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for allegedly hoisting Pakistani flag on the neighbouring country’s national day on Monday.
An advocate from Kodungallur, a town near Thrissur, has emerged as the champion of free speech in Kerala after the Supreme Court, while striking down Section 66A of the IT Act on Tuesday, said that the ruling would also apply to Section 118D of the Kerala Police Act, 2011.
Despite burning its fingers in Mirach Capital, the Sahara group seems to have picked a controversial saviour for its ‘last and final’ chance to save itself and chief Subrata Roy, who will soon complete a year in jail.
India was among 43 countries that voted in support of a Russian-drafted resolution that proposed removing benefits for same-sex partners of UN staff, but the resolution failed to pass in the General Assembly committee after 80 nations opposed it.
Off The Front Page
Sixteen years after the 1999 Kargil war, the Centre today admitted to the Supreme Court that India's response had been "sluggish" as it colonels, involved in the operation were too old.
The image of a former RJD legislator helping party president Lalu Prasad wear his shoes at a function in Bihar's East Champaran district has triggered a controversy, but the RJD leader countered that he had merely "tightened" the lace of the shoe he was wearing to save time.
A survey among HIV and modes of infection among women in northeast India finds that in 44.9 per cent of these cases, the first injection is through a used needle and about two-thirds (65.2 per cent) not thinking about HIV at the time of the first injection..
Complaints are coming in from the developing world about medical devices being 'dumped' or 'sold at inflated prices' by first-world countries and trading companies.
In a rare show of courage, a rape survivor of a village in Varanasi district not only went against the diktat of community elders and refused to marry the accused, but also forced the police to arrest him on the day of the wedding itself.
Opinion
Madhav Khosla says in The Indian Express that the cheer from the striking down of section 66A apart, structuring the precise legal relationship between different mediums—print, radio, the internet-- and the value of free speech will be one of the law’s defining challenges.
Jahangir Aziz, in The Indian Express, vouches for an independent agency to manage the government debt with a litany of arguments and adds that none of the countries that shifted to an independent PDMA has asked its central bank to take back debt management responsibilities.
Claude Smadja lambasts the United States for its short sightedness on pan-Asia infrastructure lending banks in The Business Standard.