Annabel Mehta, Sachin Tendulkar's mother-in-law, has dedicated her life to working with the Beautiful People of the other half of Mumbai without whom the city would neither exist nor thrive. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel met the amazing lady who was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire for her service to underprivileged communities.
He said India needs huge amounts of energy for development but will do whatever it can to deal with the problem of climate change as it sees the world as one family.
If Manto, the film, falls short of being a masterpiece it's because Nandita Das could not quite crack the Manto code: She couldn't quite see the wholeness of her subject with the same eyes that Manto saw his people. This imperfection in the film, in a way, becomes the greatest tribute to Manto, feels Sreehari Nair.
'We should not believe that our ability to expand production is infinite. 16 per cent of cultivated land is already almost exhausted.' Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on food, in an exclusive interview.
Following is the full text of External Affairs Minister S M Krishna's address on 'Lasting Peace through Joint Global Governance' at the preparatory ministerial meeting of the Non Alignment Movement Summit at Tehran, on Tuesday.
We remain hopeful that we will be able to achieve this agreement, the US Under Secretary of State said.
Incoming US President Donald Trump has assembled a core team that is -- not surprisingly -- overwhelmingly white and male.
The two leaders noted that the shared values cherished by their peoples and espoused by their founders democracy, pluralism, tolerance, openness, and respect for fundamental freedoms and human rights are acquiring an increasingly greater prominence in building a more peaceful, prosperous, inclusive, secure and sustainable world.
United States President Barack Obama said goodbye to his nation in an emotional address enriched with wisdom and optimism.
'... and all of the symbolism, history, the colours of his motherland, the earth, the sky, all of that is there and it always remains with him.'
India disregards Washington's propaganda that Iran is a terrorist state that is threatening regimes in neighbouring countries.
The government must justify why we need to buy foreign reactors when we have developed up to 700 MWe unit-size pressurised heavy water reactors, a design which can be easily extended to 900 to 1000 MWe unit size. Why can't the 'Make in India' philosophy apply to indigenous nuclear reactors, more than 18 of which have been designed, built, and being operated by Indian engineers, asks Dr A Gopalakrishnan.
In first year of the UPA-2, non-performance is visible in all areas of governance, writes Virendra Kapoor.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday addressed the first joint sitting of Parliament as mandatorily required under the Constitution after the general elections. The address is the political, economic and foreign policy road map of the Narendra Modi government and covers virtually all crucial areas.
'For Dr Singh, it is no more a simple issue of putting the nation's prestige before the world at large at risk, or anything like that.'
We present the translation of the full speech given by Chiese Prime Minister Li Keqiang at the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The text of the address by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the People`s Majlis (parliament) in Maldives
The joint declaration lists the BRICS nations' consensus on global economy, international financial issues and developmental affairs.
Here is the entire text of the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's Budget Speech:
'There is much that India and the United States can do together to reduce the global risks of nuclear proliferation, including by building a new global consensus on the way ahead. The negotiation of a verifiable Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty in the Conference on Disarmament will be a significant contribution.'
L K Advani, Bharatiya Janata Party stalwart and leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, addressed the 81st annual general meeting of the Federation of the Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on Thursday. In his speech, Advani makes a strong case for Swadeshi, creatively redefined, as a model of development to benefit Bharat, and not just India.
Ladakh MP Thupstan Chhewang on Chinese incursions, the environment and effects of global warming in Ladakh and the relations between the Muslim and Buddhist populations.
'We value our friendship with the Left, but not at the cost of the national interest. If this government goes, let it go'
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks at the inauguration of the International Conference on Federalism in New Delhi on November 5, 2007.
If our international institutions are not dealing successfully with the challenges of today, one reason is the fact that they no longer reflect current or emerging realities of power
Why the consumer care business is still important to IT major Wipro?
What we are seeing is a demonstration of how in today's complex global scenario there can be issue-based coalitions of States.
'If every consumer in India and China, totaling up to almost 3 billion, want to live like people in San Francisco, Stockholm or Singapore, can they afford to? Can nature afford it?'
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