News Desk (By Hemant Pande): India has largest education system in the world after China. However, the issues of accessibility and quality of education are not up to the mark in some parts of the country.

News Desk (By Hemant Pande): The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a UN Agency, says Indian economy is likely to expand by 8.1 per cent in 2011, the fastest growth rate in the world after China.

News Desk (By Triveni Sharma): Tyrian purple is the most expensive color since the ancient times. This is one of the beautiful and eye-popping colors. It is also known as ‘imperial purple’.

News Desk: In a significant discovery, a woolly rhino fossil has been found in the Tibetan Plateau, which is believed to be the oldest specimen. The report has been published in Science journal.

News Desk (By Triveni Sharma): On the fourth day of Hindu month Bhadrapada (around August-September), the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi or Vinayak Chaturthi is celebrated with great enthusiasm and zest throughout the country. This year, it falls on September 1.

News Desk: The spirit of celebration is in air with the arrival of a series of festivals including Eid. Muslims across the country ended their a-month long Ramzan fasts offering special prayers and beholding crescent moon on Tuesday.

News Desk: Media, which has played a significant role in spreading the anti-graft movement launched by Anna Hazare, also never spared to criticise the process of the crusade across the nation analysing the time to time development in the recent days.

News Desk (By Chinmayee Dash): While the nation saluted Anna Hazare for his anti-graft movement, noted Indian novelist Arundhati Roy was not convinced. She holds a different opinion and said, "I'd rather not be Anna".

News Desk (By Triveni Sharma): Domestic violence, especially violence against women, is a widespread occurrence throughout the world. Violence against women is a cultural aspect of our society that many women don’t want to acknowledge.

News Desk: Congress party president Sonia Gandhi figures as the seventh most powerful woman of the world in the Forbes list. The list is topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.