Featured Stories

How Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in Sidi Bouzid on December 17, 2010 sparked the Tunisian revolution -- and the Arab Spring.

Hindustan Times launched its Young Achievers programme in 2011 to spotlight exceptional young Indians beyond the usual circuits of visibility.

Factory-built homes promise cheaper, faster, greener housing. Why prefab kept falling short -- and why 2011 looked like its comeback moment.

The BBC spent £1.6 million on a stretch of pavement outside Broadcasting House. What the outrage said about procurement at publicly funded institutions.

November home prices fell in 19 of 20 major US metros, per the Case-Shiller index -- eight cities hit new post-bust lows and a double dip loomed.

Methi deserves its place in the winter kitchen — fiber, flavor, and genuinely interesting blood-sugar research. But it is not antiviral and not a cure for

Kids come home starving at 4pm. Here is how to build after-school snacks that truly satisfy -- fresh, simple, and Ayurveda-friendly, minus the sugar crash.

Purdue researchers found students who quizzed themselves after reading retained 50 percent more a week later than those who re-read or made concept maps.

Why did India rank 134th of 153 countries on the 2010 World Giving Index? An essay on survey bias, informal giving, and the culture of Indian philanthropy.

Florida Virtual School, founded in 1997, became the country's largest online school by 2010. What its early experiment revealed about remote learning.

In late 2010, Sega installed urine-controlled video games in Tokyo urinals. Graffiti Eraser and a stream-strength contest followed. Ads ran after.

India's RTE Act had just banned corporal punishment in schools. Yet the old proverb refused to die. What the research — and the law — actually say.

In January 2011, reports that China issued stapled visas to Arunachal residents sparked debate: a policy shift, or just another obstacle? History answered.

Bill Hudson, Goldie Hawn's ex-husband and Kate Hudson's father, planned a 2011 memoir called So You Are a Star to tell his side of a famous estrangement.

By the end of 2010, Facebook had crossed 500 million users and left MySpace behind. The network effect made leaving a genuine social cost.

Google Goggles 1.3 added instant barcode scanning, print-ad recognition, and a party trick: solving a Sudoku grid faster than a champion.

On a Fulbright teaching exchange in the Adirondacks, English teacher Ajay Kumar Nair introduced American students to kabaddi — shoes off, rules on.

LinkedIn's 2010 list of the most overused profile words revealed a national quirk: India loved 'dynamic.' America preferred 'extensive experience.'

A Virginia court secretly ordered Twitter to surrender five WikiLeaks-linked accounts. WikiLeaks demanded Google and Facebook disclose their own subpoenas.

Admired and reviled in equal measure: Goldman Sachs after the 2008 crisis, from TARP repayment to the $550 million Abacus fraud settlement.