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Houston Rockets beat Toronto Raptors 117−101

Houston, Nov 28 (IANS) Basketball player James Harden scored 24 points and Patrick Patterson added 22 to lead the Houston Rockets to their 117−101 win over the Toronto Raptors at the Toyota Center. Omer Asik had 13 points and 18 rebounds to fuel the Rockets' fourth straight victory Tuesday. Jeremy Lin had 16 points and 10 assists, reports Xinhua

Story−telling festival for Delhi school kids

New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) A festival of stories will draw thousands of schoolchildren to Pathways School, Noida, Nov 17−18.

Miranda House Archiving Project collects alumni stories to view institutional history through students' eyes

While oral histories rely on memory and are never entirely objective, such people-oriented stories offer insight that one would not normally find in traditional archives

Independence Day 2017: What Mahatma Gandhi envisaged a truly free India would be like

Gandhi's Vision: Freedom and Beyond’, is an exhibition of photographs and documents depicting India's freedom struggle under Mahatma Gandhi's leadership and his vision of free India | An #IndependenceDay special

After Netaji files, West Bengal govt makes pre-independence cabinet papers public

The West Bengal government on Monday made public the cabinet papers for ten years from 1938 to 1947, after declassifying 64 files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

NC-Congress drift to create new alliances in J&K? (Kashmir Newsletter)

Srinagar, Oct 31 (IANS) The regional National Conference (NC) and the Congress, the ruling coalition partners in Jammu and Kashmir, appear to be fast drifting apart even as the issue of their contesting the 2014 Lok Sabha and state assembly elections together hangs fire. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in a recent interview said that while independence for Jammu and Kashmir stands ruled out, some special arrangement similar to the one made by Britain in respect of Ireland and Scotland should be worked out for the state

NHRC seeks report from UP on Muzaffarnagar riots

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission Tuesday sought a report from the Uttar Pradesh government to its observations and recommendations on the Muzaffarnagar communal riots that killed left over 30 people dead and rendered 40,000 homeless. "NHRC has asked the state government and the district administration to look into its observations and recommendations and submit a report within two weeks," said a commission official. A team, headed by NHRC member Justice (retd.) Cyriac Joseph, had visited violence-hit Muzaffarnagar and its adjoining Shamli which also saw rioting, to assess the measures taken by the state government for relief and rehabilitation of the displaced people

Study shows Aldi, VW used East German prison labour

BERLIN (Reuters) - Leading German firms including supermarket chain Aldi and carmaker Volkswagen stocked goods or used components made by forced labour in former Communist East Germany, a study has found, although both firms insist they did so unwittingly. Research by the federal authority responsible for managing the archives of East Germany's Stasi secret police (BStU) uncovered a far broader use of prison labour during the 1970s and 1980s by Western firms than previously acknowledged. The study could eventually help victims seek compensation

Cabinet nod to judicial appointments panel

New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) The cabinet Thursday approved a constitution amendment bill to make the appointment of judges more transparent, official sources said. A cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the bill to make the process of appointing judges more participatory between the executive and the judiciary.

Left Front undecided over Ganguly's resignation

Kolkata, Dec 26 (IANS) The Left Front Thursday said sexual harassment allegations against former Supreme Court judge A.K. Ganguly "might be a part of retribution by those aggrieved by his verdicts". "Ever since his verdict in the 2G spectrum case, there have been attempts at retribution against Ganguly by a nexus of industrialists and politicians