'We will get a working majority in the elections' KKPCC President Mallikarjun Kharge has remained unruffled by the rebellion in the party over distribution of tickets so far. Even though Kharge is still confronted with lot of pressure from ticket aspirants, he likes to brush it aside as a sign of growing popularity of his party...
'Vultures face extinction' Asian vultures are declining faster than any bird in history, including the dodo, and could become extinct within a decade, conservationists say...
RELIGION
A figment of human imagination A leading anthropologist has questioned the popular idea that religion developed and spread because it encouraged social bonding, by arguing that faith and belief is nothing but a figment of human imagination.
VIEWPOINT
Roads to progress While it is easy to blame it on a government for all mishaps, it is our duty as well to act responsibly.
WHAT'S THE BUZZ
Microbes from Venus reach us every 540 days Planet Venus, written off for any sign of life, has microbes in its atmosphere which may well be reaching earth every 580 days, a Sri Lankan scientist has claimed...
Floating news... Two employees of Japan's spa resort Yunessun float, during a demonstration in the Dead Sea Spa, which has same salinity of Israel's Dead Sea, at Hakone on Wednesday. AFP
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