Words are being shot like arrows in West Bengal as various parties take part in the country''s biggest political..
The emergence of populism and populist politics poses a fundamental challenge to liberal democracies globally. I..
Over the next several decades, India will either succeed in positioning itself as a major global power or it wil..
In a direct contest, most voters in Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala and Tamil Nadu will vote for Rahul Gandhi as ..
China on Wednesday said the issue of blacklisting Pakistan-based terrorist Masood Azhar at the UN panel was head..
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has tossed its hat in the ring for the taking over of Air Indias iconic tower at Nar..
Caste intricacies has tied up the elections in Tamil Nadu in several knots because of a cluttered four-cornered ..
China on Monday said it won''t hold a grudge against India if it skipped the second edition of the Belt and Road..
In the continuing IL&FS noxious bonds saga, the creme de la creme of some of Indias top educational institutions..
It is crucial for the government to keep pushing towards more effective growth-oriented policy framing and imple..
The Indian elections that kicked off on Thursday are a democratic exercise the likes of which the world has neve..
The ''M'' factor will have decisive say in West Bengal polls as demographic profile of the state shows that ther..
A renowned journalist, he once greatly admired Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and penned a large num..
Kirstjen Nielsen, the head of the US Homeland Security has quit President Donald Trump''s cabinet amid an unprec..
It''s a constituency that has consistently voted for Rajputs though they make up just 12.5 per cent of the 17 la..
All politicians in Maharashtra love to call its 12-crore people a ''family''.No wonder, since politics runs in t..
Two daughters from vastly different backgrounds have returned to the badlands of eastern Uttar Pradesh to reclai..
China on Wednesday said it was working hard on the issue of blacklisting Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mo..
A kindergarten teacher has been detained for allegedly poisoning 23 children with nitrite in China''s Henan prov..
China on Friday said it was wrong to accuse it of sheltering terrorists because it put a technical hold on the r..
The UN Security Council (UNSC) has demanded that all countries should take stringent action to combat the financ..
Two cousins battle it out from a constituency, while the father of one of them is in the race from a neighbourin..
China on Thursday indicated that it won''t support the unilateral draft resolution circulated by the US to the U..
The US has expressed concern about space debris created by the anti-satellite (A-SAT) test carried out by India ..
The US is working with India to offer an alternative to the Russian S-400 Triumf missile defence system, accordi..
Thirty-seven years after it was inaugurated by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a children''s park here in Amet..
As attention turns to issues for next year''s election, the Democratic Party has failed in its bid to overturn P..
Chinese authorities have destroyed 30,000 world maps for showing Arunachal Pradesh as part of India and also ref..
When Anna Hazare launched his India Against Corruption (IAC) in 2011, little did he realise the media convergenc..
Although it is now almost certain that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) - the group of parties led by the ..
The signalling at the Federal Reserve of the US meeting last week that no more interest rate hikes should be exp..
At the onset of the digital revolution, there was high expectation that digital communication technologies, espe..
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who delved into the murky depths of the 2016 election looking for links between ..
China on Tuesday indicated that it won''t recognise the successor of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama..
The street smart tactics of the Pakistan army - played out by Prime Minister Imran Khan at its behest - to some ..
US President Donald Trump has vetoed a bill blocking his declaration of a national emergency at the southern bor..
Over the last two-to-three decades, the major success story of the Indian economy has been the stellar growth of..
The fair sex is not getting a fair deal in tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh - but Rattan Manjari will have none ..
The US, which has launched an all-out diplomatic and economic campaign against the Nicolas Maduro government of ..
It''s encouraging to see innovation - a key to tackling pollution - coming from all corners, especially developi..
India has called for a "UN-led consensus on zero tolerance on terrorism", while condemning Pakistan''s use of cr..
In a controversial resolution that initially split the Democrats before being expansively reworded, the House of..
With an eye on the upcoming general elections, the Rajasthan BJP headquarters here set up a one-stop shop to pro..
Days after burying differences and finalizing seat-sharing agreement with Bharatiya Janata Party in Punjab, Unio..
Islamic State (IS) sympathisers were using videos of Light Series on YouTube, a Yemen preacher and writer Anwar ..
The "sole" agenda of the Centre''s ban on Jamaat-e-Islami (J&K) is to curb separatism in Jammu and Kashmir as th..
The Indian government will be making a mistake if the proposed amendments to the arbitration are cleared as cert..
To prevent Pulwama-like suicide attack in which 40 CRPF troopers were killed and casualties in anti-terror opera..
A new book on Kashmir restates the obvious but would be of interest to both scholars and the lay reader as it pr..
We live in the Age of Knowledge that set in with the success of the information technology (IT)revolution at the..
US President Donald Trump has said that there was a "dangerous situation" between India and Pakistan because of ..
A recent European Union intelligence sharing exercise with India has revealed that Lockheed Martin, the US-headq..
Than Myint from Myanmar suddenly woke up at around 4.30 a.m on Tuesday in her hotel room, struggling to breathe...
Facing the challenge of retaining all the four Lok Sabha seats, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur s..
China on Tuesday said it was not aware of Beijing''s reported plans to sell its first and only aircraft carrier ..
China on Monday chided the US for sailing two warships in the disputed South China Sea, a move that comes ahead ..
Two parallel peace processes on Afghanistan are underway. In Doha, Zalmay Khalilzad, US Special Representative f..
Former high-profile Commerce and Industry minister Kamal Nath was once India''s face at the troubled world trade..
With 2019 underway, it would serve us well to look at some of the most pressing needs of Indian infrastructure. ..
Considering the significant role played by Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in increasing access to higher educa..
When the Marxists were striving to establish their hegemony in West Bengal, one of their favourite targets was t..
China-based smartphone maker Realme, which started its operations just eight months ago, is set to expand into I..
In the midst of the stand off between the West Bengal government and the Centre, the CBI is focusing on recoveri..
Sans any accountability and transparency, the Supreme Court Collegium system has been functioning like a "cabal"..
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is not only West Bengal''s first woman Chief Minister and perhaps the..
As political parties fight over pro-farmer schemes ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Economic Adviser Kris..
A politically enfeebled President Donald Trump will face the nation on Tuesday night with his State of the Union..
The government is planning to make the first payment under the Direct Income Support (DIS) for farmers, announce..
As the nation - and the capital city - observes the 71st anniversary of Gandhi''s martyrdom, unfortunately, ther..
Taking a blow to his outsize ego, US President Donald Trump has agreed to the Democrats'' terms to end the debil..
The mounting opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the northeastern states may derail the BJP''s bid..
In the summer of 2017, the Doklam incident could have taken a dramatic turn for India (and China too!); fortunat..
With over 7,000 km of coastline, India has a big potential for marine transport, but the lack of infrastructure ..
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has reported that India is on the verge of becoming a highly wat..
Unfazed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi''s statement that the government will wait for the Supreme Court ruling ..
To address various challenges for safety and expansion of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in India, a task-force..
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Vice President, Avinash Rai Khanna, on Tuesday said the party would fight ..
Just as Narendra Modi mocked the Congress on the rural employment scheme by saying that it was a living example ..
The renewable energy sector in India has been dynamic in the last two decades, and especially over the last few ..
Fuelled by policy reforms and rebound in credit, India''s economy is forecast to expand by 7.5 per cent during t..
"Problems" like Afghanistan, even Iran, created in the thick of the Cold War, are now in the lap of a declining ..
Unlike the Congress, the communists or the socialists, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has rarely seen major fi..
The UN is "very concerned" over India sending back Rohingya refugees to Myanmar without the world body''s refuge..
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which petitioned the Indian Supreme Court to stop jallikattu, is..
The UN''s fundamental position on equal rights for women applies across the board to all religions and in the ca..
After a massive exodus of foreign funds from the country''s capital market segment in 2018, analysts anticipate ..
If Telangana, with its welfare and development schemes, is emerging as a role model for other states in the coun..
Access to credit, data and transportation are among the most crucial drivers of economic well-being. To ensure b..
When Narendra Modi was running for office, he promised to create 10 million jobs per year. The Modi administrati..
With over 1.15 lakh postcards addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several meetings with MPs, thousands..
The coming general elections, along with the ongoing US-China trade war and crude oil prices will determine the ..
The Indian government is accelerating its programme of blending ethanol with petrol for two reasons: Our petrole..
Given the limited fiscal space to increase the expenditure on social services, such as education and health, it ..
The Supreme Court entered 2018 on a tumultuous note with four senior-most judges, on January 12, going public ov..
The year proved to be a remarkable one for women from the legal point of view, that is. Apart from allowing wome..
The day before the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) waxed eloquent on the triple talaq bill in parliament, saffron b..
The speed at which global technology giants changed the way people lead their lives - the way they talk to each ..
Embracing disruptive technologies to stay ahead of the curve, the buoyant Indian IT industry made digital busine..
Although the number of Indian research journals has spiraled to over 21,000 in 10 years, they are sadly not maki..
As 2018 ends and we head into 2019, it would be worthwhile to s an the investment horizon and identify important..
A year is a long time in politics. In Uttar Pradesh, the change of the calendar from 2017 to 2018 saw a tectonic..
"Kaun Banega Mukhyamantri" was being widely asked after the Rajasthan assembly elections were announced last wee..
Money, as they say, isn''t everything - but an analysis of expenditure patterns reveals a lot about government p..
China on Wednesday said it was not aware of the detention of the third Canadian as reported by the Canadian medi..
Afghanistan has welcomed the exemption from the Iran sanctions given by the US for the India-developed Chabahar ..
The results of the much-awaited state elections are finally out. By all accounts, it was unexpected that the Bha..
The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) on Thursday highlighted the outcome of its recent Virtual Summit and the Jume..
Indian Army of the future will be technology –driven accordingly, it is replacing or upgrading its inventory of ..
Traditionally, Navy Day is celebrated annually, on 4th December, to mark free India’s first naval victory in the..
With four big oil and gas producers blocking 193 countries from "welcoming" an influential climate science repor..
China will increase its green cover by building 20,000 national forest villages by 2020 in the country.
One of the few encouraging trends in the global efforts on mitigating climate change is the rapid adoption of so..
In her recent book, "What Gandhi Didn''t See: Being Indian In South Africa", author Zainab Priya Dala looks back..
Former senior Indian diplomat Preeti Saran has been elected unopposed to an Asia Pacific seat on the Committee o..
China on Monday reacted cautiously to the trilateral meet between India, Japan and the US on the sidelines of th..
As President Donald Trump went on another verbal rampage this week, decrying climate change, and the Federal Res..
In the midst of a government-Reserve Bank of India (RBI) tussle over utilisation of capital reserves of the cent..
Pitted against Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bastion of Jhalrapat..
In this globalised world, there are many voices cheerleading the belief that location holds no relevance in comp..
Timed for the tenth anniversary of the 2008 Mumbai attack on Monday, the US government has announced a $5 millio..
India and China on Friday pledged to resolve their decades-long boundary dispute by intensifying their efforts t..
We live in an age when technology drives most of what we do in our day-to-day lives. And blessed as we are with ..
Globe-trotting former UN Environment Executive Director Erik Solheim, who will be known for his contributions to..
India and China will discuss their vexed boundary dispute and try to sort out major issues at the 21st round of ..
Political grapevine in Jammu and Kashmir was agog on Wednesday that the Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party (..
Over the same period, India''s per capita income increased by 522 per cent (from $1,134 to $7,055), providing mo..
China on Tuesday said it hoped the Maldives will think before scraping the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with it af..
An attack by a rebel group has injured an Indian police peacekeeper serving an UN operation in a Democratic Repu..
India on Monday said it is ready for more joint projects with China in Afghanistan, a strife-torn country whose ..
The crucial decision, approved by the High Level Empowered Committee (HLEC) headed by Home Minister Rajnath Sing..
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has lived up to his reputation as a Hindutva hawk. There has been n..
India and China have agreed to step up more military exchanges and interactions at defence talks held here.
पिछले साल जुलाई में चीनी सेना की टुकड़ियों की पूर्वोत्तर अफ्रीका के देश जिबूती में बने नए सैनिक अड्डे में तैनाती..
The US embargo on Cuba is preventing Indian companies from sending medicines and development-related equipment t..
With a dip in the mercury, the people of Nagaland''s Longleng district have started welcoming their annual winge..
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived here on Friday on a four-day visit to China which comes at a time whe..
Beijing on Thursday said it was not aware of India''s protest to the bus services planned between China and Paki..
India, which is facing several protests against development projects, has said that there has to be a better bal..
Pakistan has attacked growing arms sales to India by several countries, including the US and Russia, calling the..
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the big buzzword in the world of technology as it promises to change the way we ..
It cannot but be politically embarrassing for the Narendra Modi government that the decision to send two squabbl..
I interviewed Jamal Khashoggi in Jeddah in December 2001, months after 9/11. What struck me were his strong opin..
In what is a clear turnaround for the job opportunities in India, the aerospace sector is literally booming. Mul..
The first project under the strategic partnership model (SP-Model) will be the one to make 111 naval utility hel..
The Indian Army celebrates Zojia Day on 1st November. The day is celebrated to mark the capture of Zojila, a hig..
China and Japan, arch rivals in Asia, on Friday warmed up to each other as both countries stuck a slew of deals ..
If Narendra Modi can be "stopped" in the next elections then India should still be able to protect its pluralist..
After China and Russia failed to block a briefing on Myanmar, the Security Council heard the head of an independ..
Toxic smog has once again threatened to engulf the National Capital Region (NCR) as farmers in parts of Haryana ..
Attacks against artistes are happening not just because of "the rise of any particular ideology over the last tw..
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the worlds largest experimental fusion facility in ..
What is so great about 2019? Ask about any other year and one would get hundreds of answers. This year there app..
Has India, yet again managed to balance its ties between the US and Russia? The first-ever 2+2 dialogue, between..
Indian enterprises have realised the importance of selling experiences, not just products, and global 3D experie..
China on Tuesday sought to defend the CPEC after Pakistan decided to slash Chinese investments and review the mu..
By concluding the S-400 Triumf long-range surface-to-air missile system deal with Russia in the face of Washingt..
India has denounced Pakistan''s "preposterous" attempt to exploit and dishonour the memory of the innocent victi..
India will make a "sovereign decision" on Russian defence purchases, which are facing possible US sanctions, acc..
A wary China on Tuesday hoped the Maldives'' new government will provide an "enabling environment" to the Chines..
While India has taken tremendous strides in combating poverty in the past decade, Muslims, members of the Schedu..
The Super Hornet is a platform that is continuously evolving to outpace future threats. Every two years Boeing a..
China on Tuesday said the latest set of tariffs imposed by the US on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods will fo..
India has criticised the world body for not doing enough to cut off the drug trade that is financing the Taliban..
As turtle doves and pigeons compete with each other to the accompaniment of cicada''s flattering music to pick t..
The Byzantine and Roman sites of Ebla and Idlib, in northwest Syria, may well be reduced to dust if an explosion..
Millions of people residing in the lower reaches of the Ganga basin in India may face food shortage in the next ..
India has expressed regret that the Kashmir issue is being raised at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) after men..
China on Tuesday rejected a Financial Times report that Pakistan is mulling to negotiate the terms of the China-..
Suicides, between May and September, by two of its bright officers - one with the anti-terror squad (ATS) and th..
Two months ago, all 12 boys and the coach of a Thai football team were rescued after being trapped in a cave in ..
Ten years ago, on September 15, 2008, the dream run of the world economy came undone with the collapse of Lehman..
China on Monday said it will extend the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to the west of Pakistan.
The shifting at midnight of the Jammu and Kashmir police chief, S.P. Vaid, has triggered an interesting debate i..
Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao, better known as KCR, is known for taking decisions which surprise his political ..
Bestselling author Chetan Bhagat, who has taken a leap of faith in his upcoming novel "The Girl in Room 105" in ..
China on Friday said it was "happy" to see the maiden "2+2" dialogue between India and the US and hoped the two ..
While the jury is still out on the "lethality of Shivpal", the Yadav chieftain is already braced for a long haul..
India has brushed aside Pakistan''s latest attempt to raise the Kashmir issue at a UN forum and instead took the..
"Transportation" infrastructure applies to physical goods as much as to non-physical goods. Infrastructure that ..
Experienced shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa said in order to improve the standards of Indian doubles teams, academy co..
Among the dozen or so guests US Ambassador Frank Wisner was escorting to Bhutan for a holiday was Richard Holbro..
If Rahul Gandhi participates in the meeting called by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to discuss the count..
Incidents of lynching have hurt India''s image, Tourism Minister K.J. Alphons, who is in China to draw in more t..
China on Wednesday denied a media report that it is helping Afghanistan build a military base and eventually pla..
Infrastructure and economic policies under Atal Bihari Vajpayee''s prime ministership provide us with some cruci..
Describing the Rohingya refugee situation as one of the worst humanitarian and human rights crises of the past y..
A century-and-a-quarter after Swami Vivekananda''s rousing speech to the World Parliament of Religions here in 1..
China on Monday welcomed the joint participation by India and Pakistan in the ongoing counter-terrorism drill of..
As small and medium businesses (SMBs) and start-ups in India begin to embrace Cloud for their digital transforma..
For India''s commercial real estate, which is reviving after around four years of downturn, the concept of co-wo..
Russia has offered to upgrade the Indian Air Force (IAF) Su-30MKI fighter jets along with the improvement progra..
Russia is currently executing $4 billion worth of defence contracts with India and is in the process of negotiat..
As India and Bhutan enter their 50th year of diplomatic ties, the Ambassadors of the two countries came together..
United Engine Corporation (UEC), Russias sole aero-engine manufacturer, has confirmed that the proposed "second ..
Major Hemant Raj from the Indian Army''s 28 Madras Sapth Shakti Command loves action, even when on leave. His vi..
Even high economic density and a decent SPI rank is not enough to lure top universities to a district. Nashik in..
Driven by rising incomes and steady growth, consumption patterns of e-commerce, mobile data, entertainment and c..
In a critical observation on Indian Railways'' accounting system, a parliamentary committee has pulled up the na..
Born in San Francisco in 1970, life was anything but planned for Sita Kaylin, who started working as a stripper ..
Vajpayee, familiar with Lucknow, grasped the significance of Indian syncretism. But the practical politician in ..
August 15 this year marks the 71st anniversary of Indian independence. As the Prime Minister unfurls the nationa..
As India gets ready to celebrating its 71st Independence Day, concerns over honing its human capital come to the..
At a time when the world is battling one of its biggest refugee crises, India has its own share of the problem -..
We live in a society driven by digital connections - the way we bank, shop, apply for a job and even find love h..
As India approaches Independence Day on August 15, it is an appropriate time to celebrate the past and Indian de..
Rajnath, 72, a retired school headmaster, continues to live in his ancestral home in north Kashmir''s Manigam vi..
I had barely registered that the sword of Damocles hung on the heads of over four million people, mostly Muslims..
Against the background of intense speculation about US President Donald Trumps growing indifference to Indias se..
Even before elections in Pakistan had taken place, the media which articulates the Western establishment point o..
Over 1,000 "war rockets" of the 18th century ruler of the erstwhile Mysore state, Tipu Sultan, were found in an ..
In the past three decades or more the Indian Air Force has had the strategic advantage of better beyond visual r..
Under the prevailing scenario there is a high possibility of, Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear (CBRN..
China on Thursday said it stands ready to work with the new establishment in Pakistan, as Imran Khan''s Pakistan..
Even the best laid plans of mice and men can go awry. If the Pakistan army wanted Imran Khan to score a runaway ..
Only a diehard optimist would expect that India''s elected representatives would find the time to reflect on nat..
But as Nelson Mandela''s subsequent career showed, his influence actually seemed to Rudyard Kipling''s "If", par..
A biography that traces Baba Ramdev''s rise from godman to tycoon has been caught up in a legal storm for over 1..
China on Wednesday rejected as "totally false" a report about Islamabad approaching Beijing for more loans to ke..
The "Composite Water Management Index" report released by the NITI Aayog recently highlights the issues confront..
India spends just a little over one per cent of its GDP on healthcare and this is leading the country into "a co..
Few changes in the US Supreme Court have provoked the widespread consternation of the American public, specially..
Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency in 1975, plonk in the middle of the most intense phase of the Cold War. Dét..
Indias aviation industry traces its roots to December 1940, when industrialist Walchand Hirachand established Hi..
There is a new twist to Kashmir''s political tale indicating that perhaps, once again, rumours could be travelli..
Are most nations able to keep up economic progress while ensuring improved standards of living for their citizen..
My mind was on the topic of job inheritance after I received a letter from a reader about a real-life saga in In..
His inspiration? Anand Kumar''s famed Super 30 in Patna, which mentors students from underprivileged sections of..
Amidst teething troubles and glitches in the implementation framework, the landmark reform of Goods & Services T..
Plastic drinking straws are just one example of some of the pointless plastic products that have proved to be a ..
A Bangladeshi officer serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan has been killed in an attack on an..
India says it is disappointed with the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (GCTS) resolution adopted by the Genera..
Cricket is a symbol of "hope for treasure" in Afghanistan that is now battered by terrorism springing from safe ..
Humans must transform their key economic systems and move to a circular economy to restore the ecosystems. The t..
Even as most global rating agencies have kept India''s growth forecast between 7.3 and 7.4 per cent, NITI Aayog ..
Playing a crucial role to mitigate climate change and other environmental challenges across the globe, India on ..
Expressing skepticism at the way the Security Council deals with outrageous crimes against humanity, India has q..
Sixty five-year-old Maria sits at the doorstep of her demolished house. The only thing that remains is a wall at..
China on Wednesday was mum on its envoy''s proposal that Beijing, New Delhi and Islamabad engage in a trilateral..
India''s soft power and its new global outreach became apparent after the United Nations General Assembly in Sep..
Besides this, boosting French investment in India was one of the several issues that Indian External Affairs Min..
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday made yet another surprise visit to Beijing, just a week after his his..
With Chinese Navy making rapid strides, the Indian Navy has been continuously getting focused attention from the..
As Indian Navy’s submarine arm has started new inductions like the Scorpene submarine, it is now also looking to..
The election are planned to be held on 25th July this year. The transition that started in 2008 is getting derai..
The ever-increasing demand for potable water is exerting tremendous stress on our existing consumable water reso..
Like Janus, the Greek god, the Indian monsoon has two faces, according to a report by researchers from Germany i..
The murder in broad daylight of senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari, editor-in-chief of the English daily Rising K..
After three decades of war, Afghanistan is still not a secure place to live in. It is perhaps the most dangerous..
Saudi Arabia has faced more than 60 attacks by terror groups Al-Qaeda and Daesh, about half of them in the last ..
The burning issue of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is gradually spreading in Tripura as well,..
This is a city which has grown upwards. There are plenty of skyscrapers around. But the builders have also dug d..
Is yoga a sport? The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) says it is not. Yet, 11 Delhi University (DU) c..
Security has moved from being a peripheral issue for companies to becoming the core of their concerns with the c..
There was no ''paraya'' (outsider) in his view, nor any ''dushman'' (enemy). Observers noted that there was no m..
India and China will work out their differences to ensure the two countries continue to progress and prosper tog..
Agriculture contributes 17.4 per cent to the GDP and employs 54.6 per cent of the population. However, the contr..
United Nations Environment head Erik Solheim believes that only India can help itself when it comes to "Beat Pla..
Mountainous northeastern India has experienced uneven pre-monsoon rains, though Tripura recorded 71 per cent exc..
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, who has travelled to different countries to fight for children''s rights, feel..
The ordinance imposing the death penalty for raping a child was in the pipeline for long and was not brought bec..
Five minutes. This thin, precious, slice of time is all the window one gets to escape a fire accident. For a fir..
Muslims in politics are either too weather beaten or "too Muslim" to navigate diversity. Danish Ali, in my view,..
Higher oil prices, the consequent inflationary pressures and a weaker rupee have dominated recent news headlines..
Given the current high costs of making radioisotopes used in nuclear medicine, there is considerable scope of co..
I have never seen the electronic media so totally defiant of the BJP government. Home Minister Rajnath Singh''s ..
Try once more! That just about sums up my life. A series of failures leading up to a modicum of success. Today w..
British Columbia, the Canadian province that is a leader in technology and has one of the fastest growing tech e..
Bharatiya Janata Party national Vice President Vinay Sahasrabuddhe says that he is confident that Karnataka Gove..
Public opinion on privatisation ranges from proponents who say it increases efficiency to opponents to fear it w..
China has banned India-trained "wrongly educated" monks from teaching Buddhism, fearing they may be of "separati..
India has acknowledged here at an international forum that its civilisation was built upon successive waves of m..
Targets should be more ambitious in order to push the country''s technical and scientific brains, he said.Aim fo..
Over 31 million people of Indian birth or descent are part of the Indian diaspora spread around the world. Of th..
In its pursuit of global maritime dominance, China has decided to create a force of three aircraft-carriers - on..
Enterprise solutions provider SAP on Wednesday brought its intelligent Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) ..
The spectre he warned of in the 19th century may not have come true when his and his associate Friedrich Engels'..
This is not about propaganda; indeed, it will not work if it is directed from above, least of all by the governm..
The actor, 50, has become the brand ambassador of the New India Conclave 2018, which will recognise rural achiev..
The boom in literature festivals was not only unprecedented in terms of the audiences that they attracted but al..
A man raised by wolves in a forest says he misses his old life. Living as a wolf cub in a Spanish wilderness was..
Failing several times to meet its deadlines, Indian Railways has yet again set a new target of April 2020 for co..
The cities of Bombay (Mumbai), Madras (Chennai) and Calcutta (Kolkata) had deep cultural roots and urbanised com..
Countries like Canada, Australia, Singapore and, of late, Dubai have emerged as hot favourites due to the growin..
New art galleries have opened in cities, multinational publishers are thirsty for Indian stories, translations a..
There is no possibility of any new political realignments ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year, says Food ..
Two years after the Centre notified the Real Estate Regulation and Development Act (RERA) of 2016 to empower and..
A strong, diverse democracy and people''s hunger to be in sync with international fashion trends make India a sp..
By all estimates, the Indian economy has entered a phase of recovery. After a period of subdued growth that was ..
For the first time, the world is experiencing ice-breaking events that are not attributable to global warming. B..
India’s ability to secure its harbours, key ports including strategic ones will be vulnerable as the programme t..
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited has been at the forefront of ship building to fulfill the needs of the Indian ..
In January this year two privately manufactured artillery guns completed trials in Sikkim and in the first week ..
In the ever-evolving world of smartphones, a few mobile handset makers have been tempted to launch two or even m..
One of Britains most senior cabinet ministers has resigned after growing pressure over her handling of targets t..
Given the weakened position of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) at the national level, the uneasy tr..
With only two months to go for the monsoon rains to arrive, relocating Rohingya refugees to a safe place has eme..
That some 2.37 crore people have applied as the Indian Railways kicked off the process of filling up over 88,000..
Any undergraduate student of economics would vouch for the fact that an economy in a recession requires a fiscal..
After clinching her maiden Commonwealth Games medal, five-time world champion M.C. Mary Kom says she took the Go..
Having narrowly lost the Super Heavyweight (+91 kilogram) title at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games (CWG), Indi..
Mineral-rich Odisha, aspiring to become a manufacturing hub in India with downstream metal industries, has "lear..
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Our chief economic advisor very succinctly put it recently that India is both a story of revival and risks. It w..
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Recent statements by the chief of the Banks Board Bureau (BBB) that public-sector banks (PSBs) have a role in cr..
Like most Indian states, Uttar Pradesh''s discoms have the twin challenge of universal household electrification..
India has expressed concern over the rising improvised explosive device (IED) attacks on UN peacekeepers and cal..
Those caught up in the hustle bustle of a city life - and craving for someplace pristine, calm and relaxed - wil..
An indication as to how difficult it is going to be for the opposition at the national level to get its act toge..
Water taps in India''s Silicon Valley may soon turn dry if authorities don''t revive Bengaluru''s water bodies a..
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India has a coastline of approximately 7,500 km and as we look to build infrastructure to boost economic growth ..
It is that time of the year. Thousands of migratory birds that flew into the Kashmir Valley to spend the winter ..
A Swachh marathon conducted by the Dettol company, Reckitt Benckiser, in collaboration with NDTV, as part of the..
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With a powerful combination of brainpower, entrepreneurial energy and favourable demographics, India is the worl..
Scholars and economists will argue whether these two actions were necessary or beneficial. I will leave that deb..
Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who is of late involved in mediation on the Ayodhya issue, says the ..
Diagnosed with a debilitating condition when barely out of his teens, he was given just two years to live. But S..
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Secondary agriculture is an important and independent activity and a division needs to be created in all the thr..
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This is the same force driving the new platforms that have emerged to deliver goods and services at levels of ef..
Having apparently succeeded in making some inroads into the Muslim community, specially among women, by aggressi..
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the world''s fastest-growing economy, and Emmanuel Macron, President of the wor..
The State Bank of India''s (SBI) decision earlier this week to not fund interest payments during the infrastruct..
The International Solar Alliance (ISA), jointly launched by India and France at the UN Climate Change Conference..
For BJP President Amit Shah, who has set his eyes on winning Kerala, the first test will come when a by-election..
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The government is committed to extending every support to Indian industrys focused efforts to increase investmen..
As a globally renowned professional historian, she has in recent years been the target of vicious right wing tro..
Prime Minister Narendra Modi''s worldwide travels, which appeared to lag a little with the advent of President D..
Gandhian and anti-corruption crusader has accused prime minister Narendra Modi of not being interested in appoin..
His salary is ''''less than that of an Indian postman'''', but it is his task to communicate his community''s de..
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not told the "truth" to the opposition about the conversations he has had with ..
For India to become a $5 trillion economy, the government needs to go from being a spender to an even greater en..
Over a decade after he initiated farm-stays in Punjabs Hoshiarpur district, agriculturist-entrepreneur Harkirtat..
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Narendra Modi''s views of the historical events at the time of partition are as problematic as his understanding..
Where does one seek authentic information about India''s contemporary military history? The Ministry od Defence ..
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Patriotic songs by Lata Mangeshkar and other artistes clash with India''s national song "Vande Mataram" as they ..
The Assembly polls in Tripura on Sunday will see 23 women contesting, including two pitted against Chief Ministe..
For the last half of the 20th century, the United States was the world's beacon for democracy and economic devel..
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The eleven-month-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh is pulling out all stops to make t..
Conspiracy theorists, who prove mostly right in the topsy turvy post-9/11 world, are these days busy switching c..
Nazi Germany seemed an epitome of an (extreme) ideology-driven regime stressing the objective of fostering pure ..
One hopes that Indian diplomats and national-security managers are doing some serious soul-searching about how a..
While the global 3D printing industry is pegged at somewhere between $4 billion and $5 billion, market intellige..
About 82 per cent of the growth in global wealth accrued to the world''s top one per cent over the last year whi..
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The government''s move to increase expenditure on food processing, infrastructure, healthcare and rural economy ..
I received a call from an editor reminding me of my stay with the Beatles 50 years ago this February in Rishikes..
India has said that the various options and differing views of nations on Security Council reform should be pres..
Indian Railways'' all new 12,000 horsepower electric locomotive - being produced in collaboration with Alstom of..
Marxist leader Manik Sarkar, who has been guiding the destiny of Tripura for 20 long years, remains arguably Ind..
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In a speech bubbling with patriotism and economic policy of America First, President Donald Trump has reiterated..
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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is following the India-Pakistan border situation where there has been firing ..
This is written from my adopted homeland of the United States of America to celebrate Republic Day in my motherl..
India is putting together this year its largest entourage of ministers, policymakers and business leaders for th..
Ironically for a President who ran on a platform of scaling back the government, Donald Trump began the annivers..
Unlike most countries, the budget is usually an eventful affair in India and is a heated topic of national conve..
The visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to India (January 14-19) commemorates the 25th anniversar..
India has taken on a major leadership role in fighting climate change when others are failing, UN Secretary Gene..
In the same week as a Delhi court acquitted all the accused in the 2G fiasco, the Comptroller and Auditor Genera..
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The New Year is upon us. It has been 17 years into the 21st century and if one word has to define this period, ‘..
Through much of 2017, the picturesque Darjeeling Hills - once a dreamy tourist gateway - simmered with violence ..
Ten years ago, when three women walked into Shabnam''s one-roomed home here one afternoon, her six- and seven-ye..
The proposed bill that criminalises the practice of instant divorce "empowers" Indian Muslim women by giving the..
Concerted action against militants and appointment of an interlocutor to carry forward the dialogue process were..
Ditching their neutral white laboratory coats, Indian scientists this year hit the streets in large numbers depl..
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The Indian Navy’s Submarine Arm commemorates Submarine Day on the eighth of December of each year. This was the..
Fiction was almost lost from Indian publishing at about this time last year. With about three non-fiction titles..
Since the late 1990s, bilateral ties between India and the United States have blossomed under successive Republi..
The RM has done her graduation and Masters in economics. I expect her to be peripherally aware of Defence issues..
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined India''s maritime potential and current profile in a commendable manner at..
Social media has fast emerged as a market of its own where selling and buying are both easier and more practical..
The final scene has the late Bal Thackeray predictably announcing in very matter of fact tones, from his Mumbai ..
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Saudi Ambassador to India Saud Al-Sati has said that his country has "credible evidence" that Iran was behind th..
India is ranked 14th in this year''s Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2018 out of 56 nations and the Euro..
Kashmir''s fish are dying because of eutrophication (excess of nutrients leading to oxygen depletion), turtle do..
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World War I finally came to a blood-soaked end on November 11, 1918. As we mark the 99th anniversary of the Armi..
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As a one-time Bollywood diva, acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and Carnatic singer Vyjayanthimala has seen it all ..
Celebrating Dhanteras? Have you ever wondered where did the gold in your jewellery come from? A cosmic cooking p..
India''s independence movement was built on the principle of non-violence but a new book by noted historian Upin..
It is high time corruption in the private sector is criminalised if the war on corruption has to be effective, s..
Continuous monitoring of water levels in the foothills of the Himalayas can warn about an impending earthquake i..
The relentless and persistent political and extremist turmoil might have left the Assamese society searching for..
The meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Hamburg on the sidelines of..
A Rohingya petitioner on Friday told the Supreme Court that they were not illegal immigrants but refugees who fl..
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The BRICS Summit was largely an uneventful affair this year. Apart from the usual declarations for greater coope..
It''s high time India reviewed its first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system that is increasingly emerging as ..
The telecom regulator, which sent the industry into a tizzy with its decision to slash interconnection usage cha..
From the time of her birth, Antimbala was told she was unwanted and a burden to her family. She was convinced sh..
India has made significant progress in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by UN membe..
Darjeeling, Thimphu, Gangtok and Siliguri are a tight cluster on any map even in a large Atlas. Because of the r..
The India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Fund has set a new standard for cooperation among developing countries, a t..
The areas of convergence between India and China are diminishing while those of confrontation have become "more ..
Stephen McCaffrey is considered "the single-most respected authority on international water law", and is now the..
Two recent events will influence attitudes at the 9th BRICS summit at Xiamen, China, from September 3 to 5 - Dok..
The government is "open for dialogue with everybody" in Jammu and Kashmir but without preconditions, Union Home ..
Accustomed as we are to shrill hyperbole in India''s public discourse, the description of the tense Himalayan fa..
For over two months now, border guards of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been locked in a stand-off..
Contrary to what some sections of the Indian media would have us believe, two armies alone do not go to war, nor..
The prediction by a team of physicists led by IISER-Kolkata on how the corona of the sun would look during the A..
The Indian rupee has been on a rising spree this year. Beginning from historical lows back in December-January, ..
President Donald Trump has signaled an open-ended involvement without an identifiable end game by announcing a c..
This is a true story. I am revisiting it with a purpose: So that it collides head on with the nation''s 70th ann..
As India celebrates its 71st Independence Day, it must remember the sacrifices made by leaders of the freedom mo..
Though demonetisation had some positives, former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Bimal Jalan says he would ..
On August 31, 1942, Lord Linlithgow wrote to Winston Churchill: "I am engaged here in meeting by far the most se..
As reports of the border stand-off between India and China continue to hog headlines, one of the concerns raised..
The Security Council has imposed the toughest ever sanctions on North Korea, squeezing the flow of the defiant n..
Narendra Modi must be realising by now that it is easier to demolish than to construct. He is unlikely to have s..
In a fresh salvo, China has told India not to test its patience over Doklam, with its Defence Ministry saying th..
The UK after Teresa May''s self-imposed "Brexit General Election" reveals a stalemated society and politics, dee..
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan remains the tough guy of the state''s politics unlike his predecessors, w..
China has blamed the US for the North Korea missile crisis and asserted the only solution was for Washington and..
The 2017 National Energy Policy (NEP), drafted by the NITI Aayog, takes the baton forward from the 2006 Integrat..
There is no single voice of the Kashmiri youth like today''s popular media narrative seems to convey: the voice ..
Eminent space scientist G. Madhavan Nair on Thursday said he was hopeful of a joint space programme between Indi..
The depressing drumbeat of bad news from Jammu and Kashmir and Bhutan''s Doklam plateau may or may not be a cons..
With more than half of this year''s tourist season over, alarm bells are already ringing for those associated wi..
After the Sukma massacre of 25 of its troopers in April, the paramilitary CRPF has weaved "much better coordinat..
There was a time when Urdu couplets written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz or Ghalib were read from books or heard at ''mush..
There has been much mud-slinging after news of a senior army officer''s wife humiliating a junior officer''s wif..
Ram Nath Kovind''s first speech as President was in keeping with his low-key personality.He said all the right t..
Of all romanticism associated with poetry, the ethereal and carefree life of a poet is perhaps the most adored. ..
Modern avionics and systems may make flying a fighter easier, but also lead to more complex tasks at hand, says ..
As the new generation Mig-35 fighter, touted as being superior to the US F-35, made its public debut at the MAKS..
Deliveries of Russian Ka-226T helicopters, which India is buying and which would subsequently be made in India, ..
On the eve of the May 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections, Arun Jaitley shared his campaign experiences with som..
Faced with an "unusual situation" arising out of the indefinite shutdown in the northern West Bengal hills, Darj..
For the people of this Himalayan kingdom, it''s more convenient to travel with India than to be at a crossroads ..
Any infantry is today called ‘blind’ if it does not have good all weather day and night shooting ability. A ri..
Even as India and Israel officially mark 25 years of diplomatic relations in 2017, it’s a little known fact that..
New fighter jets and transport planes will add to the work for Indian companies in sheer dollar-value. New Delhi..
China has remained an enigma for a long time. It is because of the feeling that China has that she is the centre..
India''s power grid needs to be upgraded if the plan to sharply step up power from renewable energy is to be suc..
Former Finance Minister and BJP leader Yashwant Sinha says the Indian economy is actually growing at five per ce..
When people think of climate change, pictures of melting glaciers, sweltering heat in summers and flooding of co..
With a decision to allow commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) mustard pending, a top executive of..
"Instead of paying that extra amount to the government, which is a loss, we have put up a sale to liquidate thes..
The NITI Aayog will begin to evaluate quarterly performances of Union Territories (UTs) in the country with a fo..
"Tear down this wall," Ronald Reagan, former Republican President of the US, challenged Mikhail Gorbachev in his..
He maintains he has reservations about "making quick" judgements about the note ban decision that had affected t..
China on Tuesday said it was in touch with Russia over India''s application for membership of the Nuclear Suppli..
If this is the bad news, what is even worse is that the situation appears to be slipping out of the hands of bot..
Let it be 8 p.m., "my whisky time", noted nonagenarian lawyer Ram Jethmalani vowing to help resolve disputes bet..
NSDC is a public-private partnership under the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, its job being t..
India has to do no more than let the Dalai Lama be the Dalai Lama in order to rile China from time to time. As d..
A chain of islands that once existed in the Bay of Bengal now lies buried under water, according to a new study ..
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday introduced the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Bill, 2017, a..
Farooq Abdullah has been an instant crowd-puller in the past. But the "Tiger is back" image he has been trying t..
The tradition of organizing big feasts for the entire units on special occasions is as old as the Indian army it..
The year was 1971. Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India. In neighbouring Pakistan, democracy was dead ..
Landmark deal between India and Israel for joint developmet of medium range air to surface missile (MRSAM) for t..
Tehran, Feb 21 (IANS) Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday said all Muslim countries have..
"Although the Indian 3D printer market is at nascent stage, it holds tremendous potential for the manufacturers,..
A deliberate effort has also been made to blur the distinction between police and the military; they term themse..
Indian Navy and the Coast Guard have the task of patrolling 2.1 sq km of maritime territory besides a 7,519 km s..
Since 1953, Thales has been apartner to India’s development.The company has been actively contributingto the dev..
Efforts of the Indian navy to protect its own bases or ports are woefully short as it does not have enough ships..