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NEW DELHI: For a country crowing about its cracking growth rate, here is a fact that should make its head hang in shame. Over 53% children in India under five years - that is, 67 million - live without basic healthcare facilities. This means that India alone accounts for about one-third of all children in the world aged below five who ...

Go ooh, go aah, go gasp, go rotfl, go wtf, or any emotion that comes to mind, but none can do justice to the exclamation of surprise I let out when I looked at the auction, over and over again in disbelief. If this is the IPL’s idea of making cricket entertaining, it’s doing a great job - and is treading ...

When Manoj Night Shyamalan heard he'd got the Padma Shri, he didn't know how to react. Simply because he did not know the significance of the award. But when his friends and relatives from India and the US began to congratulate him effusively, he realised this was something very different. Today, he confesses, "it feels like a singular event in my ...

In a reverse trend, the UK government is interested in sending British students to study in India. "We want to set up a UK-India school to facilitate British students to come and study in India," informed Bill Rammell (pictured below), UK minister of state, lifelong learning, further and higher education. This is part of a slew of initiatives by the British ...

NEW DELHI: India has earned the dubious distinction of being the country where maximum number of murders takes place in the world, three times more than its neighbour Pakistan and double the figures in United States. There were more than 50 lakh incidents of crime reported in 2007- 08 which included murder, rape and drug offences, a government report said. There ...