'Does Islam teach you to hurt your parents?'

'The path you were planning to choose was wrong. The safest place in this world is India. Why do you want to waste your life?' How the Mumbai Anti Terror Squad is trying to rehabilitate a young man......

Which planet do you live on?

'We had been talking for two hours about India and America and we stopped and looked at each other. "The issues are the same," said my hyper-successful and patriotic NRI friend, his hidden Indian......

Sonia articulates hard times but ignores inflation

Sheela Bhatt offers her take on Congress President Sonia Gandhi's speech that kicked off the the party's Chintan Shivir. Congress President Sonia Gandhi's speech at the party's Chintan Shivir in......

Anti-Maoist operations resume in Odisha

With Biju Janata Dal MLA Jhina Hikaka walking to freedom and the two Italian hostages released earlier, the Odisha police have resumed operations against Maoists after a lull of 45 days. There was......

Vodafone rolls out aggressive plan for mobile wallet service

M-Pesa, the mobile wallet service of telecom major Vodafone, plans to launch out-cash services. A pilot programme will be launched soon, under which customers will be able to withdraw money from......

Want an iPod? Buy it abroad!

For all Apple iPod lovers looking for accessories to enhance their listening pleasure, a piece of advice: in case you travel abroad or have relatives in the US or Singapore coming over, don't buy......

Prepaid refilling to go virtual

Prepaid cards have changed the wire-free world in a big way. They have turned mobile phone connections a lot more affordable, giving the subscribers considerable relief from the month-end bill......