OB Special

During our training in the Indian Forest College (IFC), Dehradun, we were on East India Tour in January-February of 1983. While camping at Varanasi, we got a message from IFC...

Both of them hail from the same state, are from the backward class, both are products of the JP Movement, they have together thrived on Mandal politics and both follow...

There is no reason to observe an International Female Orgasm Day (August 8), but for the skulking of the society. We respond to enforcements and drills more often than to...

Bhubaneswar: Climate science played a major part in the 2012 London Olympics, perhaps for the first time in a major sporting event. It was termed the greenest ever for its...

The Vice-President of India is the second highest office in the country after the President. Our new Vice-President is Jagdeep Dhankar. He succeeds Venkaiah Naidu. Dhankar was the NDA candidate...

 "The guardians of the just state should be the most underprivileged of all its citizens. It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away...

On this day in 1945, the world saw the dropping of the first atomic bomb in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. As many as 1,40,000 people were killed and 69...

Coach Rahul Dravid is under unprecedented attack from cricket's veterandom. Unprecedented because the ultimate gentleman in the gentleman's game is rarely spoken about harshly. The reason for it is he...

Gone are the days when First Division in Class X and 1XII was a cause for celebration and was considered a success. Congratulation messages flowed freely, families distributed sweets and...

Most fish-eating connoisseurs may not know about Hilsa as this is restricted to a very few cuisines. To some this is the most-prized fish. Legend has it that Muhammad bin...