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A daughter, a widow, and a wife...three women overcome their personal tragedies with strength and determination and selflessly give back to society with such kindness and generosity that they leave imprints in everyone’s hearts. Their success is another matter altogether and comes secondary to them. Here is their story.

Muslims in Bihar, in a stellar demonstration of communal harmony, have donated land to help build the world's largest Hindu temple which will have the capacity to seat a staggering 20,000 people.

Bhosale (28) won a bronze medal in the 64 kg weight category at the National Championship in Nagpur and has been hoping to get a decent job that will allow him to focus on his boxing career. Destiny has other things in store for him as he is currently working as a tempo driver to earn a living.

The powerful coal lobby in Australia has also come under a scanner for the role it may have played in blocking uranium sale to an energy-starved India.

If current trends continue, Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world by 2050 …

Historically, sexual intercourse within marriage was regarded as a right of spouses, engaging in the act without the spouse's consent is now widely classified as rape by many societies around the world, repudiated by international conventions, and increasingly criminalized.

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) ordered Indraprastha Apollo Hospital and gynaecologist, Sohini Verma, to pay Rs.1 crore compensation

The wonderful collection of Tipu Sultan's arms and armor is of the greatest historical significance. Isn't it really unfortunate that most of it is getting auctioned outside India.

Akshaya Patra's mid-day meal programme reaches out to both; urban and rural India through its dual-pronged strategy of centralized and decentralized kitchens. It's 21 centralized kitchens, often called 'the happiness factory' cater to the urban children whereas in rural inaccessible areas such as the deserts of Baran, Rajasthan and the deep jungles of Nayagarh, Orissa, decentralized school-based kitchens are established. Here, the food is cooked by local women self-help groups, for whom it is also a steady employment.

Politicians of all shades and variety claim to be friends of the farmer but what have they done friends in need?

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to France and Germany, cooperation in modernising India's giant but creaking railway system is to be a key focus area. With bullet trains in India likely to take some years in the making, the government is set to go ahead with the purchase of a cheaper, safer and smarter option - a la the Metro trains - called train sets.

Every night at about 9:30, Train No. 339 pulls into the shabby station in the north Indian farm town of Bathinda in Punjab. The local people call it the “cancer train.” The number of cancer patients in this farm region is increasing significantly.