The announcement took place in Copenhagen in October 2009: International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge opened the envelope and told the world that Rio de Janeiro had won its bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games. Crowds watching a live broadcast on Rio’s famous Copacabana Beach exploded into a delirious uproar. Ticker tape ... Read More »
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down North Carolina’s requirement that voters show identification before casting ballots and reinstated an additional week of early voting, finding that legislators had acted with “discriminatory intent” in imposing strict election rules. The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of ... Read More »
It is said that one must think out of the box to excel and stand out. Funnily enough, the key to out-of-the-box thinking today comes in the shape of a box – Pod Squad, a monthly subscription box for kids between three to seven years. It exposes them to nine ... Read More »
There were several times during this week’s Democratic National Convention when delegates could be excused if they thought they’d stumbled into the wrong party’s meeting. For President Obama, one of GOP candidate Donald Trump’s greatest sins was replacing Ronald Reagan’s visionof “a shining city on a hill” with “’a divided ... Read More »
After its huge success, Anand Kumar’s Super 30, which helps underprivileged students crack JEE test for entrance into IITs, is set to be expanded this year to include students who have passed class X, in an extension of the existing programme involving class XII pass-outs. “We are planning to teach ... Read More »
To hear her daughter, to watch a video about her life and to listen to her own words, it was hard to believe that a significant majority of Americans hold a negative view of Hillary Clinton, finding her untrustworthy and dishonest. How could that be true of such a devoted ... Read More »
Hillary Clinton’s life, in many respects, traces the arc of progress for women in American society. Her mother, Dorothy Rodham, was born in 1919, a year before the 19th Amendment gave women the vote. It has taken a long, long time for that amendment’s promise of women’s full participation in ... Read More »
Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu will join the Aam Aadmi Party on August 15, officials told NDTV. He, however, will not be projected as AAP’s chief ministerial candidate. Instead, he will lead the party’s campaign in Punjab ahead of the 2017 Assembly elections. Party chief Arvind Kejriwal is likely to make ... Read More »
The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the controversial Compensatory Afforestation Funds Bill, almost three months after the Lok Sabha gave the proposed legislation its assent. The Act provides the framework for the distribution of nearly Rs 42,000 crore for afforestation in states where forest land has been utilised for other ... Read More »
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said security forces may have spared Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani had they known he was among the militants in the Anantnag hideout during their combing operation. “How do we know about an encounter?…I believe that had they known he [Wani] ... Read More »
The Adani group has started construction on India’s first trans-shipment port – an intermediary port that allows container ships to offload before their journeys end, Reuters reported. The Indian government will give the Adani Group a grant of Rs 1,600 crore for the project, which it hopes will bring in ... Read More »
Bengaluru came to a standstill on Friday morning as torrential rain lashed the city. Several arterial roads such as Hosur Main Road and areas in Electronic City were flooded after a heavy downpour since Thursday night. The Met department said the rain would continue till August 1. According to The ... Read More »
