Why do we need leap years?

Why do we need leap years? : We need leap years to help synchronize our calendar with Earth's orbit around the sun and the actual passing of the seasons.

Iran backs reformists

Iran backs reformists: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani won an emphatic vote of confidence and reformist partners secured surprise gains in parliament in early results from elections that could accelerate the Islamic Republic's emergence from years of isolation.

Sahitya sabhas appeal for funds

Sahitya sabhas appeal for funds: The apex literary bodies of several indigenous communities in Assam today said the state government had stopped annual assistance — ranging from Rs 4 lakh to Rs 10 lakh — to them.

Injured jumbo awaits help

Injured jumbo awaits help: Help is on its way for a wild elephant battling for life since the past few days after goons, suspected to be from Arunachal Pradesh, fired bullets at it and chopped off its tail.

Black Syientology Invades Hollywood

Black Syientology Invades Hollywood

US Lauds 'All-of-UN' Approach to Prevent Violent Extremism

US Lauds 'All-of-UN' Approach to Prevent Violent Extremism

Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first Oscar

Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first Oscar: Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar on Sunday for his leading role in revenge movie “The Revenant.”

Exclusive - Murthal Violence Caught On Tape

IS kills off Bengal trade

IS kills off Bengal trade: The Islamic State's rampage through West Asia has taken the shine off Purulia's shellac, strangling a cottage industry and the livelihood of over 3,000 people.

Is he losing sleep?

Is he losing sleep?: Below are answers in the Prime Minister’s own words from his Mann ki Baat radio address and a rally at Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. The questions were framed by this newspaper and not posed to the Prime Minister

Admiral backs JNU students vs 'bullies'

Admiral backs JNU students vs 'bullies': Military veterans today visited the JNU campus and spoke in support of the students in the current controversy, supporting freedom of speech and asking them not to let anyone 'bully' them.

Emma plugs into sex site for better orgasm

Emma plugs into sex site for better orgasm: How explicit should celebrities be in advising other women on how to explore their full sexuality?

In boost for Cameron, US opposes Brexit

In boost for Cameron, US opposes Brexit: British finance minister George Osborne pushed financial leaders from the top 20 economies to include the risk of Britain leaving the EU in their list of dangers to the world economy today, gaining explicit support from the US.

Israel airline in sexism row

Israel airline in sexism row: Renee Rabinowitz is a sharp-witted retired lawyer with a Ph.D in educational psychology, who escaped the Nazis in Europe as a child.

British museum invites dancer

British museum invites dancer: Dancer-researcher Menaka P.P. Bora announces the news of the invitation she received from the British Museum of London to lecture and perform Xattriya - Assam's only classical dance form - re-enacting the story of Lord Krishna's childhood in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, depicted in Assam's 16th century 9m tapestry - Vrindavani vastra. Given by a correspondent of The Times magazine to the British museum, Vrindavani vastra was a rare drape woven by skilled Assamese weavers under the supervision of the medieval Vaishnavite saint Srimanta Xankardeb and his chief disciple, Madhavdeb.

Is U.S. Government Using Psychic Spy Program to Hunt Terrorists?

Is U.S. Government Using Psychic Spy Program to Hunt Terrorists?

Death Valley Exposed: Wildflowers - February 2016

HC stays Kaziranga shops demolition

HC stays Kaziranga shops demolition: Gauhati High Court has stayed the National Green Tribunal's order on demolishing shops and dhabas located within 100 metres of National Highway 37 or in the forest/protected area of Kaziranga National Park.

Rare superbloom in California’s Death valley | EarthSky.org

Rare superbloom in California’s Death valley | EarthSky.org: Heavy autumn rains have transformed the barren landscape into riot of flowers not seen in decade. Have a look!

Guns fall silent (for now) as Syria truce takes effect, but Islamist rebels dig in

Guns fall silent (for now) as Syria truce takes effect, but Islamist rebels dig in: Fighting appeared to stop across most areas of western Syria on Saturday after a landmark ”cessation of hostilities” came into effect under a US-Russian plan which warring sides in the five-year conflict have accepted.

DELHI, LEARN IT FROM US We no longer send cops, we send thugs with spiked clubs

DELHI, LEARN IT FROM US We no longer send cops, we send thugs with spiked clubs: Campus-related Barbarism spread from JNU to Burdwan University in Bengal this evening when undergraduate students were assaulted with nail-studded batons by a group, one of whose members confessed that he had been summoned by a Trinamul varsity union leader.

Eyewitness Confirms Rapes During Jat Agitation in Murthal

The best speech ever in court? Some say, yes!

No Smoking #11minutes : Sunny Leone, Alok Nath and Deepak Dobriyal

Lady Cop Demands Strict Action Against Shiv Sena Man

Women Dragged and Raped on NH1 During Jat Quota Protest

Which UPA Leader Tried To Intervene In Ishrat Jahan Encounter?

China rebukes N. Korea

China rebukes N. Korea: The US and China have agreed to stiffen international financial sanctions against North Korea in a major shift for Beijing, which has long been unwilling to further isolate its intransigent ally.

NE feels bypassed by rail budget

NE feels bypassed by rail budget: All major political parties of Assam, barring the BJP, unanimously trashed the Union railway budget, which proposed a world class station and coach terminal on Guwahati's outskirts as its major highpoint for the Northeast.

KMSS marches to Subansiri

KMSS marches to Subansiri: The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) and its affiliated organisations today marched to the site of the 2,000MW lower Subansiri hydroelectric project at Gerukamukh, situated along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, to protest the Centre's alleged move to resume work on the stalled project in the guise of carrying out repairs.

One for the album

One for the album: Participants in the Sekrenyi Festival, a premier event of the Angami community,  pose for a photograph in Kisama on Thursday. Picture by UB Photos

‘SATYAMEV JAYATE’

‘SATYAMEV JAYATE’: A medical report filed by a doctor suggests she examined Rohith Vemula's body minutes after he was discovered hanging on January 17 - a disclosure that does not match the version recounted by HRD minister Smriti Irani in the Lok Sabha yesterday.

3 Dead, 14 Injured In Kansas Shootings

Masood Azhar To Be Globally Named As Terrorist By UN Security Council

Clarkson in BBC apology

Clarkson in BBC apology: Jeremy Clarkson, the former host of the BBC's hugely popular Top Gear motoring show, apologised and settled a lawsuit today with the member of the production team he physically attacked in an incident which cost him his job.

Plea for central university

Plea for central university: Tezpur BJP MP Ram Prasad Sharma has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to set up a central university at Biswanath Chariali in central Assam.

Mother India, at your service and ready for the supreme sacrifice, here comesAUNTY NATIONAL

Mother India, at your service and ready for the supreme sacrifice, here comes
AUNTY NATIONAL: Just over a month ago, a Dalit research scholar at Hyderabad Central University, Rohith Vemula, tragically took his own life. The death of a bright young Dalit scholar is not new in Indian universities. The Thorat Committee that was appointed in 2007 to investigate the growing number of deaths among students in elite institutes discovered that out of the 23 suicide cases, 19 were Dalits, two were tribals and one was Muslim. This alarming figure should have raised several questions of academic justice and freedom that our nation needed to seriously ponder.

Sanjay Dutt Emotional Speech after Releasing from Jail

Sanjay Dutt Walks Free Out Of Pune's Yerwada Jail After 42 Months

Seas rising at fastest rate in 2800 years

Seas rising at fastest rate in 2800 years: The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in the coming decades, scientists reported yesterday.

French film on Majuli now in Assamese

French film on Majuli now in Assamese: A documentary, Majuli the Shrinking Island, produced by a Franco-German TV channel, will soon be dubbed in English in order to reach a wider audience.

Tag unlikely before polls: BJP

Tag unlikely before polls: BJP: Three student organisations today protested against the Centre's delay in granting Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to six ethnic communities of the state as BJP leaders said it was unlikely to accord the same before the Assembly elections.

Assam ready with report on script

Assam ready with report on script: The Assam government is ready with a detailed formal report justifying a separate slot for Assamese script in national and international standards, including the Unicode Consortium.

Umar Khalid & Anirban Bhattacharya Surrender | JNU Face Off

Police Use Lathi Charge To Control Protests In Cooch Behar

Uncharted land: Governments trying to claw back control of internet

Japanese-Americans call for internment memorial

Mexico: Drone offers unique look at Paricutin's lonely cathedral

Kanhaiya kin query Modi silence

Kanhaiya kin query Modi silence: Kanhaiya Kumar's uncle and brother met him in Tihar jail today and returned 'strengthened' by the young man's fortitude. But they cannot understand Narendra Modi's silence.

IS claim killing Bangladesh priest

IS claim killing Bangladesh priest: The Islamic State today said it had carried out the brutal killing of a Bangladesh head priest at a temple in an area bordering India. It was the first attack by the terror group on the minority community amid a series of similar assaults.

Iran adds $600,000 to Rushdie bounty

Iran adds $600,000 to Rushdie bounty: Iranian state-run media outlets have added $600,000 to a bounty for the killing of British author Salman Rushdie, imposed in 1989 over the publishing of his book The Satanic Verses.

Is Russia Serious About Syria's Political Transition?

Is Russia Serious About Syria's Political Transition?

Indian spice in British referendum potboiler

Indian spice in British referendum potboiler: Now that Boris Johnson has announced he will vote for Britain to pull out of the EU, the result of the in-out referendum on June 23 could be very close since the mayor of London is widely seen as the Conservative Party's most charismatic figure.

Students ban Manipur cars

Students ban Manipur cars: The Naga Students' Federation (NSF) will impose an indefinite ban on movement of Manipur vehicles from Saturday to protest against frequent harassment of Naga organisations and people in Manipur.

ST cauldron boils in Assam

ST cauldron boils in Assam: Adivasi and Koch Rajbongshi organisations today iterated their demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status with a four-hour rail blockade and at a function which was attended by both the chief minister and a central minister.

Students defiant, cops cautious

Students defiant, cops cautious: Barh-born Ashutosh Kumar, one of the five JNU students 'wanted' by Delhi police on sedition charges who returned to campus on Sunday evening, said they had gone into hiding because they feared they would be lynched.

The Kanhaiya interrogation

The Kanhaiya interrogation: Delhi police tried to make Kanhaiya Kumar rat on fellow JNU students, suggests a purported interrogation report accessed by The Telegraph.

Category 5 Cyclone Winston slams Fiji

Category 5 Cyclone Winston slams Fiji : The strongest tropical cyclone recorded so far in 2016 - and Fiji's strongest tropical cyclone ever - made landfall Saturday evening.

Mamata Banerjee To Declassify Netaji Files

We speak with the Zee News journalist who resigned over the channel’s coverage of #JNURow

We speak with the Zee News journalist who resigned over the channel’s coverage of #JNURow: This piece is a gift to you paid for by the subscribers of NL. Subscribe to Newslaundry.

Delhi magazine to profile professor

Delhi magazine to profile professor: Chemistry professor Arijit Das, who has invented 14 new methodologies and 36 new formulae in the subject, will be profiled in the 14th issue of Delhi-based Asia/Pacific Who's Who magazine to be published in the last week of April.

Assam boy turns innovation page

Assam boy turns innovation page: It is said talent can take you places, and 19-year-old student Swapnanil Talukdar's genius has landed him at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Pampore standoff ends, 2 more militants killed

Pampore standoff ends, 2 more militants killed: The three-day gun-battle in a government building near Srinagar ended on Monday when Indian security forces killed two more militants who had holed up in it.

'My name is Umar Khalid and I am not a terrorist'

'My name is Umar Khalid and I am not a terrorist': JNU history student Umar Khalid walked up to the administrative block on Sunday night, wearing the same striped sweater and shawl he wore before he went underground.

O mur apunar desh State anthem of Assam YouTube

Britain in or out? Cameron calls EU vote on June 23

Britain in or out? Cameron calls EU vote on June 23: Priti Patel, David Cameron's Indian 'diaspora champion', will campaign for a British exit from the European Union in the 'in-out' referendum that the Prime Minister said will be held on June 23.

Rail links for Barak valley

Rail links for Barak valley: Union railway minister Suresh Prabhu today flagged off three trains, connecting the Barak valley with Manipur and Tripura as well as with Delhi via the rail route.

O Mor gets cabinet nod as state anthem

O Mor gets cabinet nod as state anthem: Assam cabinet today approved several decisions taken earlier by the state government, including clearing O Mor Apunar Dex as the state anthem.

When the young are hunted for shouting slogans, what do we tell our children?

When the young are hunted for shouting slogans, what do we tell our children?: Police are on the lookout for five JNU students who have been charged with sedition along with Kanhaiya Kumar who has been arrested.