New Delhi, Dec 31 : Indian badminton this year saw P.V. Sindhu coming out of the shadow of her illustrious Hyderabadi city rival Saina Nehwal, who was blighted by multiple injuries
New Delhi, Dec 31 : The Narendra Modi government came under increasing attack by opposition parties through the year over a range of issues, including demonetisation, but larger opposition unity remained
United Nations, Dec 30 : As Prime Minister Narendra Modi stayed away this year, India followed a strategy of quiet diplomacy while projecting its soft power at the world body,
Mumbai, Dec 29 : Star or no star, big screen or the computer screen — it was film and digital content backed by good and compelling storylines that drew the
New Delhi, Dec 29 : As 2015 drew to a close, there were fresh expectations on India-Pakistan ties with the two sides deciding to resume their comprehensive bilateral dialogue during
Mumbai, Dec 29 : Only eight out of the approximately 230 Hindi films released in 2016 surpassed the glorified Rs 100 crore ($14.5 million) club in India, giving the industry
Vijayawada, Dec 29: For the residual state of Andhra Pradesh it was an eventful year marked by numerous post-bifurcation challenges — the biggest being the shifting of the administration from
Kolkata/Bengaluru, Dec 28 : The increasing use of digital technologies in buying and selling merchandise for convenience and mobility pushed e-commerce in India to an inflection point in 2016. The
Chennai, Dec 28 : The year 2016 was a bag of mixed fortunes for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) with successes on the technological front and setbacks on the legal
New Delhi, Dec 28: Its not been a great year for wildlife. More tigers and leopards were poached in 2016 than in any year of the previous decade, pangolins were
New Delhi, Dec 28: While the year witnessed next-generation innovations like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) being introduced into daily lives and into smartphones at
New Delhi, Dec 28: India, where just 1.5 per cent of the GDP goes to healthcare, took some promising steps to uplift patient care in 2016 — a year that
New Delhi, Dec 28: It was a tumultuous, even controversial, time for literature in 2016 with mixed reactions to the unexpected recipients of its most prestigious prizes, the latest installment
New Delhi, Dec 28: The rapid rise of the Zika infections across many parts of the world had a large section of the population mightily worried till its “global emergency”
New Delhi, Dec 27 : The euphoria over sending its biggest contingent ever to the Olympics did not last as the performance of Indian athletes did not measure up to
From demonetisation adding to box office’s blues and calls to ban Pakistani artistes, to directors at odds with the censor board and celebrities going public with their personal battles —
From currency to salt-very little escaped the reach of fake or fabricated news in 2016. Rumours spread from WhatsApp and other social media into the mainstream media. Institutions such as
Kolkata, Dec 26: Bengaluru FC provided the sparks, while the national men’s team advanced in rankings despite an overall tepid show during 2016 — a crucial year for Indian soccer that
New Delhi, Dec 28: It was a year when India lost many prominent personalities from all walks of life, with politics receiving a particularly severe blow, many of its well-known
New Delhi, Dec 24 : The year 2016 can well be labelled as the domestic black money retrieval year that saw the government follow a carrot-and-stick policy, nudging hoarders to