By Tarun Basu At Khan el Khalili, Cairo’s main souk in the crowded Islamic district, shopowners seek out Indian tourists with friendly hails of “Amitabh Bachchan! Shah Rukh Khan! Welcome!!” These two actors are by…
By Ashok B.K. Health plays a crucial role in building your self-confidence, living a longer life, having more energy, being less stressed and feeling emotionally happier. People should adopt preventive healthcare measures at an early…
Amit Kapoor The Modi government has been pulling all stops to improve the ease of doing business rankings since it came into power in a bid to improve Indias image as a business-friendly economy and…
By Lavanya Garg In 2014, Dolly Kumari, an outspoken 12th class passout, left her home in Jharkhand, journeying about 2,000 km south to a new job as a tailor at a garment factory in Bengaluru….
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar When pacing the cold, stone-lined corridors of South Block, former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar famously confessed to fantasising about Goan fish curry over butter chicken, the national capital’s ubiquitous calorific treat. Back…
By Rajendra Shende “The rift has accelerated since end of the last year”, reported all the major news agencies in North America and elsewhere. “It may get close to a full break, never seen before…
By Saeed Naqvi President Donald Trump has furnished proof that the leader of the Free World, which dropped the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, remains true to form: it has dropped an even bigger Mother…
By Amulya Ganguli Having failed to delineate a cogent and credible line on secularism, the Congress will have to articulate a new position to find its way back into political reckoning. For a start, the…
By Vikas Datta Indians may know him best playing one of the biggest villains of their recent history. But the cameo as Gen Dyer, the “Butcher of Amritsar”, in Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” was a rare…
By Vikas Datta No other Indian cricketer has set so many long-enduring Test records as him, including the highest first-wicket partnership and the fastest 1,000 runs and 100 wickets. Vinoo Mankad is also one of…
By Amit Kapoor The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) first monetary policy review of fiscal 2017-18 was presented last week amidst expectations of a status quo on the interest rates and speculation of action on…
By Frank F. Islam In February 2017, I went to India from the United State of America to dedicate the Frank and Debbie Islam Management Complex at my Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) alma mater. At…
By Veturi Srivatsa There is little room for sentiment in sport, at best there can only be sympathies. Thats what the new non-playing captain Mahesh Bhupathi sought to convey to his one-time buddy and on-court…
By Sharifah Munirah Alatas On March 30, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak arrived in Chennai for an official visit following an invitation from his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi. This was Razak’s third official visit…
By Amulya Ganguli A curious combination of judicial and saffron activism is posing a serious threat to employment prospects, thereby undermining the economy when it is dealing with the phenomenon of jobless growth because of…
By Saeed Naqvi As soon as I read that Kishori Amonkar was no more, I called up Raghu Rai, the pioneering photographer. Raghu had, with me in tow, done a remarkable photo feature on Kishori….
Mumbai, April 6 (IANS) Bollywood actor Irfaan Khan on Thursday said he was quite shocked seeing Vinod Khanna’s latest photograph that has been circulated on social media and wished a speedy recovery to the veteran…
By C Uday Bhaskar Bangladesh is Indias most vital and empathetic neighbor and this is symbolized in the decision by Dhaka to posthumously honor 1,661 Indian soldiers for their contribution and sacrifice in the blood-soaked…
By Vikas Datta Medicine’s loss was music’s gain. She had planned to cure ailments of the body, but fate planned her to instead to minister to the soul through her incomparable voice — and innovations….
By Mayank Chhaya Chinese President Xi Jinping may have a hard time understanding which President Donald Trump he will encounter when the two meet in Mar-a-Lago in Florida on April 6 and 7. Would it…