KBC jackpot winner Sushil Kumar, who worked as a computer operator, had once aspired to become a government officer but gave up the effort after the KBC success
The dapper Harshad Mehta and the reclusive Ketan Parekh were involved in the biggest stock market scams in liberalised India, leaving many an investor without a shirt.
A batchmate of former IPS officer RK Sharma says he turned into a recluse after the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar, and has been living at his home in Panchkula in Haryana since his acquittal.
On September 21, 2007, Calcutta was jolted by the fate of 29-year-old Rizwan, who had fallen in love with Priyanka Todi, 23, the daughter of a rich hosiery businessman.
Gladys publicly forgave the killers who burnt her husband Graham Staines and two sons alive, stayed back in Odisha and continued her work for the leprosy home, established in the 1890s
In Bihar, caste violence erupted like a plague in the late 1990s. There was the armed Ranvir Sena, composed mostly of Bhumihar landlords, baying for Dalit blood. And then there were retaliatory strikes of Maoist groups.
Manipur erupted in anger after the killing of Thangjam Monorama in 2004. A dozen women stripped naked in protest holding banners one of which read, “Indian Army, Rape Us”.
The National Register of Citizens continues to cause a heartburn among the Assamese and the state's Miya community has chosen poetry as a medium to make itself heard
Inadequate compensation, fast exhausting relief material and discrepancy in assessing damage to property is making villagers in Bhoisahi in Satapada district gasping for their future
There is widespread fear that the US is conceding too much space to Taliban as Donald Trump wants to fulfill his electoral promise to end the Afghan war
