By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Jan 21 (IANS) One of the five pillars of Islam, “zakat” is mandatory charity for every well-to-do Muslim. And Hyderabad Zakat and Charitable Trust (HZCT) has shown how this obligatory form…
ATTN EDITORS: This article, by William Dalrymple, is the second of two exclusively written for IANS ahead of the Jaipur Literature Festival. Editor IANS By William Dalrymple The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a unique…
By Nury Vittachi A woman about to have a hospital procedure involving her “naughty bits” (to use the official medical term) asked for a female nurse to do it. In walked a beefy individual with…
By Prashant Sood Haifa/Tel Aviv, Jan 17 (IANS) Amira, a housewife belonging to the Druze community, is busy chopping vegetables in her home in Dalyat el Carmel, a serene and quaint town in the Carmel…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Jan 14 (IANS) He is 83 years old and has been serving free food to the poor and needy for over three-and-a-half decades. He is fighting cancer and has sold off…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Several Indian enterprises have chosen Google Cloud to grow their businesses in the past few years. With the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region now live in the…
By Nury Vittachi When police arrested a man for drug possession, he claimed that the illegal substances were not his. This would have been fine except for the fact that they were found up his…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) From the award-winning investigative stories blowing the cover on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church by The Boston Globes Spotlight team to the only writer to have ever gone under…
By Mudita Girotra Alakhpura (Haryana), Jan 7 (IANS) On a cold and wet winter afternoon, some 30 km from the district headquarters of Bhiwani, tired boys buckled up to return home after seven hours of…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, Jan 7 (IANS) It’s a taboo no one really talks about in remote villages of Himachal Pradesh — but could soon end. Women in many remote parts of the mountain state…
By Nury Vittachi A few years ago, my brother from New York phoned me on the morning of January the first — but in America it was still December 31. I told my kids: “Your…
By Kushagra Dixit New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) Large-scale littering in the Himalayas by trekkers and campers have led to Himalayan brown bears — a critically endangered species close to extinction — being drawn to…
By Bhavana Akella Bengaluru, Jan 1 (IANS) Late last year, business reporters from across the world were invited to Shanghai — China’s largest city — to witness the people of the most populous country in…
By Archana Sharma Jaipur, Dec 31 (IANS) Sixteen-year-old Nadeem Khan, who recently earned laurels for being the winner in the state-level Bhagwad Gita competition in Rajasthan, is passionate about learning the Sanskrit language. He finds…
By Bhavana Akella ProtoVillage (Andhra Pradesh), Dec 31 (IANS) John F. Kennedy said “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try”. These words of one of America’s best-known presidents probably inspired a former…
By Mayank Chhaya Desert Hot Springs (California), Dec 27 As America battles a variety of ailments related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Indian American counseling psychologist Ramesh Gune is emerging as a key influencer in…
By Imran Khan Patna, Dec 27 (IANS) A man-made sand crisis in Bihar over the past five months has angered all stakeholders: Thousands of labourers, skilled workers, traders dealing in bricks, cement and iron rods…
By Nikhil M. Babu Khoda (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 24 (IANS) Ten years ago, when three women walked into Shabnam’s one-roomed home here one afternoon, her six- and seven-year-old daughters, Sana and Shaima, were school dropouts….
By Archana Sharma Jaipur, Dec 23 (IANS) A Thakur of an estate and a member of erstwhile Rajput nobility wrote religiously and chronicled the life and times of the royal age. Sounds unbelievable, but it’s…
By Imran Khan Bumuar (Bihar), Dec 22 (IANS) Sixteen-year-old Anjali Kumaris determination to study and fulfil her dream of becoming a school teacher has given her the strength and confidence to stand up against child…