No man is an island, they say. No one is self-sufficient; everyone relies on others, howsoever powerful one may be. And Donald Trump and the great US is no exception.

Five men have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to bring heroin worth up to £280,000 into Leicester. The men worked together to bring consignments totalling 3.5kg of the class. A drug from Sheffield to the city. However, they were...

A 26-year-old man has appeared in court charged with killing a pedestrian who was knocked down by a car outside a Sikh temple.

I extol Smita Sarkar and Anand Pillai for their exhaustive and excellent article on the above in the AV of the 21st Jan. In 1916 Annie Basent started it in London for India Home Rule against British Colonialism but it was for Dominion Status....

PM Narendra Modi’s demonetisation gets “Thumbs Up” response in national opinion poll carried out by “Mood of the Nation” (MOTN) survey, giving PM messiah Modi 65% approval rate, up 15% against his arch rival, masquerading politician Rahul Gandhi’s...

SC Handa has made an excellent proposal that "the NRIs should donate their old notes of RSM 500 and RS 1,000 towards the projects, Construction of toilets and Swatch India" [His letter AV, 7 Jan, p10 and his two projects].

Twenty years after her sudden death, on 31st August 1997, two princes will commission her statue to be installed in the public grounds of “Kensington Palace” where Prince William and Harry live. This will be fitting memorial for “People’s Princess”...

Announcement to ban entry of Muslims from seven Muslim countries, that too for 90 days is similar to surgical strike in PoK and demonitisatin in India. Ironically the announcement coincides with telephone talk with P.M. Modi and Chinese new...

Now that the supreme court judges have delivered their ruling (on 24 January) that the prime minister could not trigger article 50 and start the ball rolling towards the process of leaving the European Union (EU) without the parliament’s assent,...

Jallikattu is a bull taming sport practiced for years in the State of Tamil Nadu. The sport is also known as Eruthazhuvuthal or Manju virattu in Tamil. It is also conducted in several parts of other states in different names. The Jallikattu...