New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the Akhil Bharatiya Prachaarya Sammelan, in New Delhi on Feb 12, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Since 2014 when Narendra Modi won his famous victory, the only change has…
Bangladesh is now at the crossroads. The war crimes tribunals, set up to punish those who had committed crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s liberation war of 1971, have already sent to gallows three leading lights…
By Prasanto K. Roy On Monday afternoon, India’s telecom regulator finally put to rest the fiery net neutrality debate in India — by ruling against zero rating and differential tariffs. Zero rating lets Airtel users…
By Abhishek Waghmare Record production in the US, weakened demand from the Eurozone and emerging economies like China and Brazil, and IranÂ’s entry into the international market have effectively slashed the price of crude oil…
India has rarely been as much disgraced as by the assault on a group of Africans in Bengaluru, the country’s vaunted Silicon Valley. Yet, this city, which is supposed to represent a cosmopolitan ambience, witnessed…
Jammu: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti meets Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra at Raj Bhavan in Jammu on Feb 2, 2016. (Photo: IANS) By Sheikh Qayoom Jammu/Srinagar, Feb 4 (IANS) Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president…
By Dr. Dinesh Pendharkar “How can I have cancer, Doctor? I donÂ’t smoke, I exercise every day, I eat the right food and I get annual health check-ups.” Bewildered and shocked patients, often say this…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) A farmer-turned-politician, Balram Jakhar, who died here on Wednesday, was an able administrator and had the rare honour of holding some of the highest constitutional posts including that of the…
By Amit Kapoor Evidence of corruption in a developing countries like India can cause massive turmoil. Two cases in point have been the near collapse of UPA-II on account of corruption charges and the rise…
By Bhaswati Mukherjee As a young Director in UN Division of India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in 1990, when the world was not networked as it is today, I have vivid recollections of following…
Considering that 2015 was an extraordinary year for the global environmental movement for saving the planet, 2016 has begun with a bland and flat business-as-usual. I had heard European Parliament President Martin Schulz’s intervention after…
By Amulya Ganguli To most supporters of Narendra Modi, including those outside the saffron fold who welcomed his economic agenda, the prime minister’s tenure so far has been disappointing. That he has sensed the uneasy…
Rohith Vemula, a PhD student, focused on the interstellar spaces and Carl Sagan. In a different location, a sewage cleaner looks for live cockroaches in the sewer, which ironically give him a sense of security:…
Why do we call them “wives” when they remember everything we said since 1987? Don’t you think “home historians” would make more sense? I was thinking about personal histories after reader Wendy Tong sent me…
New Delhi: Union Ministers and BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Jitendra Singh, JP Nadda, M Venkaiah Naidu and others with Amit Shah after he was re-elected BJP president in New Delhi on Jan 24, 2016. (Photo:…
By Anurag Dey Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The charisma of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose made people equally inquisitive about the revolutionary leaderÂ’s personal life, often producing strong and divisive views. Files declassified by the Narendra…
India’s Republic Day on Tuesday (January 26) will be celebrated with traditional pageantry and the citizen gets a panoramic view of the country’s military capability. Intelligence inputs warn that it will be yet another test…
Vasudev Lokhande is the beneficiary of an ambitious Maharashtra government programme to permanently transform the lives of farmers devastated by a record-setting drought, but he is unhappy about its benefits. In an agrarian eastern corner…
By Praveen Davar One hundred and nineteen years ago, on January 23, was born one of India’s most iconic political figures – Subhas Chandra Bose. Forty four years later, in 1941, he left the country…
Sometimes I feel The Universe hates me. On the morning of writing this, I found my Fitbit step counter hadn’t re-charged, which meant that I was trapped in bed for an hour. But even more,…