B0Y ARUN KEJRIWAL The week gone by saw markets on a roll and score handsome gains on every day of the week. BSESENSEX gained 1,812.44 points or 4.68% to close at 40,509.49 points. NIFTY gained…
BY VINOD MIRANI Finally, light at the end of the tunnel for the cinema exhibition trade as the Government at the Centre has decided to allow cinema halls to reopen from mid-October. In these last…
By Yajurvindra Singh The panorama that the Indian Premier League (IPL) brings to a cricket lover is wonderful. Watching matches after matches unfold with such precision and in a professional manner is truly a remarkable…
BY ARUN KEJRIWAL The week gone by had mere four trading days but had plenty of action in it. It had two days of super gains on Monday and Thursday and two flat days. It…
BY SAEED NAQVI Jaswant Singh’s final goodbye acquired extra poignancy. Ushered into his study in my mind’s eye by the reliable Thomas, his secretary, I can see him induce a smile by way of politeness,…
BY JAYANTA GHOSAL This story is from about 20 years ago! A person from Kolkata came to visit our office in Delhi. He got my address from somewhere, had hopped onto the Kalka Mail and…
BY MAJOR GENERAL (RETD) S.B. ASTHANA The current China-India standoff in Eastern Ladakh has seen multiple rounds of talks failing to ease tensions, with continued troop build-up under the shadow of talks. While negotiations roll…
BY AMIT KHANNA The term “soft power” was coined by academic Joseph Nye of Harvard University to describe “the ability to attract and co-opt rather than coerce, use force or give money as a means…
By Yajurvindra Singh The Indian Premier League (IPL) has brought cricket once again into the lives of millions of Indian cricket enthusiasts. Most of the matches have been exciting and to have two of them…
By Kailash Chaudhary Farmers shouldn’t worry about the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crops as new farm laws will not affect procurement operations carried out by the government agencies. Farmers are ‘Anndata’ who produce…
By R.K. Pachnanda After retirement from the army, my father took up farming at Village Shahpur, on the Pinjore-Nalagarh Road, in Haryana. After every wheat harvest, my mother used to cart the wheat herself on…
By Arun Kejriwal Markets behaved on expected lines and fell on the first four trading days with a sell-off on expiry day. They recovered on Friday the first day of the new futures series which…
BY RAHUL VATSA Leaders changing sides before an election is not an unusual scenario in India. In general, such crossovers are by politicians who miss out on securing a candidature from their respective parties. Therefore,…
BY SAEED NAQVI The ancient Indian protocol for social distancing is embedded in the lines my yoga guru, from the famous ashram in Monghyr, Bihar, taught me: “Chaar miley, chausath khiley, Miley bees ek saath….
Dubai, Sep 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actress Preity Zinta is in Dubai for the ongoing Indian Premier League, and the high temperature of the place makes her miss her ski trips. Preity shared a picture on Instagram,…
BY ASHIS RAY Let me begin by saying that even after 30 years there’s no guarantee as yet of a durable ceasefire in the civil war in Afghanistan. In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers indulged…
By Yajurvindra Singh The Indian Premier League (IPL) has had a wonderful start. This was just the entertainment for the bored and isolated Indians locked down in their homes for the last few months due…
By R. K. Pachnanda In his address to the nation, the Prime Minister saluted the corona warriors — the health workers, who passionately treated the patients and saw to medical care, and the police personnel,…
BY TAPONEEL MUKHERJEE As the Indian economy deals with the economic impact of the Corona induced slowdown, an opportunity to make constructive changes to the economic policies has arisen. India needs a long hard look…
BY FRANK F. ISLAM Eminent columnist Swaminathan A. Aiyar called upon Wakf boards and wealthy Muslims to finance the development of “a string of world-class education institutions” that would attract foreign students and Indian Hindus…