Chief Minister Ashok Chavan became the first casualty of the Adarsh Housing Society scandal today when he submitted his resignation even as he proclaimed his innocence and denied any wrongdoing in his relatives gettting apartments in the controversial...

BANGALORE - Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, has moved with his family into a new home. Pegged at over US$1 billion, the Ambanis’ abode in Mumbai has been described as the world’s most expensive.

The saga of how Azerbaijan lost control of the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh revolves around issues of ethnicity and culture. But it also involves a breed of horse. Karabakh horses, valued for their endurance in mountainous terrain, mild...

Experts estimate there may be more than 500,000 intravenous drug users in Central Asia. Many of them share needles, a practice that places users at a high risk of contracting the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS. Sasha, 31, is a...

Researchers believe people are suspicious of foreigners when they speak with a different accent. Why? Truthfulness is associated with the ease of understanding a person, and foreign accents make understanding more difficult. Listeners are less willing...

The post-Soviet citizenry has grown tired of empty promises, and if Washington is to fulfill its self-proclaimed destiny to lead them towards a democratic, capitalist future, it must seriously ponder its policies, John CK Daly writes for ISN Security...

Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have been studying how the mind works. Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia. Both groups lack important receptors...

The world today is riven by conflict in the form of full-out wars, ethnic clashes and terrorism. In addition, extremist factions in many countries are trying to spread their ideologies through the Internet. Recently, media experts and journalists...

JAIPUR: A 22-member team of a Jaipur-based NGO that provides artificial limbs to the disabled has returned from Baghdad after holding a month-long artificial limb fitment camp there. The Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayta Samiti (BMVSS) provided 882...

A pollution fine for Coca-Cola and an order for PepsiCo to cut water use at factories in India have highlighted a conflict between big business and farmers over natural resources. Last month, a report commissioned by the southern state of Kerala...