Calcutta revellers raise a toast
Selfie time for the party-goers
Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair
K. Ayyappan Pillai
Musician-drummer Ramapuram Padmanabha Marar at his home
Passengers take selfie during 'sneha yathra' in Metro train in Kochi. Nearly 450 children with physical and cognitive disabilities from 43 special schools as well as over 100 elder...
An elderly woman and a child are pulled on a cart as civilians flee heavy fighting between Islamic State militants and Iraqi special forces in western Mosul, Iraq.
An elderly clown joins an anti-government protest in Bogota, Colombia. Members of the National Union of Circus Artists from across the country marched in Bogota to protest the gove...
A man rows his boat down a street in the Cartierville district of Montreal. More than 1,500 soldiers hit the ground to help Quebecers deal with "historic" flooding that has caused...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aadityanath interacts with an elderly woman during an inspection of a 'dalit basti', in Meerut.
Kriti Sanon and Sushant may get all the nautches in Raabta, but the point of interest involves the talented Rajkummar Rao. That’s the crinkled, wrinkled, tattooed and pierced o...
Women from an oldage home whose tickets were sponsored by an NGO wait outside a theatre in Bengaluru before watching the opening show of “Bahubali 2: The Conclusion” which was ...
A man rests by a police car during clashes between protesters and the police in front of the parliament building in Skopje, Macedonia. Chaos swept into Macedonia's parliament as de...
Nuns walk up the stairs and a senior citizen entering a polling booth during the municipal body elections, in New Delhi.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath listening to problems of people during his Janata Darbar, in Lucknow.
An elderly women show banned currency notes outside Reserve Bank of India building, in New Delhi. The deadline for the exchange by residents who were abroad during the cash ban end...
Two elderly women show banned currency notes along with a suicide letter while sitting outside the Reserve Bank of India building in New Delhi to exchange their old banknotes with ...
A foreigner helps an elderly woman near a polling booth at Varanasi during the seventh and final phase of the Uttar Pradesh polls.
An elderly woman is carried after she cast her vote at a polling station during the final phase of Assembly polls, in Varanasi.
Elderly man enjoying Habel Habel (Hukkah) outside their house on the outskirts of Srinagar. The harsh days of winter came to end in Kashmir Valley due bright sunny days.
RTI applications seeking pension details should be replied to within 48 hours as it pertains to the "life and liberty" of
The tax department will not carry out any further verification for cash deposits up to Rs 5 lakh made by people above 70 y
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to assess the implementation an
Nearly half a million people over the age of 60 in the UK suffer from such extreme loneliness that they spend an entire we
An armed man stabbed a woman employee to death after bursting into a retirement home for missionaries in southern France,
Delhi High Court was today told that the one-member judicial commission, set up to deal with grievances of ex-servicemen o
Retired central government employees will now get a minimum pension of Rs 9,000, up 157.14 per cent from the current Rs 3,
A 60-year-old woman was allegedly raped and hit with a stone by an unidentified person in Karandih area on the outskirts o
A 64-year-old man was brutally murdered at his residence in Samachar Apartments in east Delhi's Mayur Vihar area today by
The tenure of the committee formed on implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme has been extended by six months
Why are the social pathologies and the decline of cultural, moral and aesthetic standards in Britain more far-reaching and alarming than similar processes in the United States? Theodore Dalrymple believes that the policies of the British welfare state are responsible as they leave:
"many people in contemporary Britain with very little of importance to decide for themselves. … They are educated by the state (at least nominally) … the state provides for them in old age and has made savings unnecessary … they are treated and cured by the state when they are ill; they are housed by the state if they cannot otherwise afford decent housing. Their choices concern only sex and shopping....
"No wonder the British have changed in character, their sturdy independence replaced by passivity, querulousness, or even, at the lower reaches of society, a sullen resentment that not enough has been … done for them. For those at the bottom, such money as they receive is, in effect pocket money, … reserved for the satisfaction of whims. As a result they are infantilized. If they behave irresponsibly — for example by abandoning their own children … — it is because both the rewards for behaving responsibly and the penalties for behaving irresponsibly have vanished..."
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