'If there is any industry that is unfit for modern corporate form it is the diamond trade.' 'But no one was asking the right questions.' 'The music was playing and so the game was on,' says S Murlidharan, former MD, BNP Paribas.
They may be on the same side of political power, but that did not stop Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and her predecessor Lalu Prasad from taking pot-shots at each other during the presentation of Railway Budget in the Lok Sabha.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi this month will be undertaking one of the longest ever abroad visits by an Indian head of government in recent times. He is scheduled to be on a nine-day, three-nation visit to Myanmar, Australia and Fiji from November 11 to 19. Later in the month, he will be in Nepal to attend the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit on November 26-27.
China on Thursday confirmed it had developed its first modern military attack helicopter, but denied reports that the chopper was a replica of stolen United states Black Hawk technology.
Will the lavish scale of her 'beautification' projects result in a Mayawati school of architecture? Kishore Singh checks out the chief minister's authoritarian obsession for monument-building in the face of scathing opposition.
United Progressive Alliance Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said he will talk to Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to seek support for his candidature when she is ready to talk to him.
"I do not believe in miracles," UPA Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee remarked on Sunday, taking a jibe at his rival P A Sangma who is hoping for a miracle to see him through in the July 19 poll.
The manifesto, on the lines of the party's promise in Delhi in 2015, also says the AAP government will set up Aam Aadmi canteens at sub-division and district levels where one time meal will be available for Rs 5, and reduce the power tariff to half for usages up to 400 unit.
The greatest progress on civil rights in the United States since Abraham Lincoln was under the Southern Democrat Lyndon Johnson, the past master of wheeling and dealing in Congress.
'Since Modi is walking a tightrope between two worlds -- one of the saffron brotherhood and the other of the proposed smart cities and bullet trains -- it is understandable why he is averse to scrutiny lest he loses his balance by tilting too heavily on one side or the other. But, why has Sonia Gandhi acquired the reputation of a sphinx,' asks Amulya Ganguli.
The Lokpal bill is expected to be brought in the Rajya Sabha on Monday with some key amendments including removal of the provisions for setting up of Lokayuktas in states.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi claimed that "20-25 per cent" voters from the minority community had voted for him in the assembly polls and asked the party cadre to reach out to all sections, including Muslims, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
Cities with a population of 20 lakh or more are being considered for modern mass rapid metro rail and feasibility studies have been ordered in this regard.
Achyut Yagnik, co-author of The Shaping of Modern Gujarat: Plurality, Hindutva and Beyond, says, "I am surprised to read that Rahul claims that he is a Brahmin. His grandfather (Feroze Gandhi, husband of former prime minister Indira Gandhi) hails from Gujarat and Parsis are Gujaratis."
Turkey submitted its bid to host the 2020 European Championship, less than a month after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan began the race to stage one of soccer's biggest tournaments.
Fali Nariman, one of India's best-known lawyers, tells Aditi Phadnis that plurality of political opinion is the only way to counter intolerance
Without cash flows, one can hardly aspire to better living conditions.
There are strong rumours of Akhilesh Yadav, son of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, of being the new chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, as the party holds its first post-poll meeting at the party's headquarters in Lucknow.
The State Department and the White House too said that the US expects Pakistan to take decisive action against terrorists operating from its soil.
Why is no government building us a Louvre? Aren't we worth a Tate? Are we so short of funds that we can't support even a few art institutions to fire the minds and imaginations of generations of Indians?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday cautioned against "commodifying" yoga, saying using it as some sort of business will do great damage to this world heritage.
The BJP's panicky return to basic-instinct majoritarianism in Bihar has pushed Muslims back into the 'secular' basement, says Shekhar Gupta.
Setting a new bench mark in transparency in politics, the Central Information Commission has held that political parties are answerable under the Right to Information Act.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi applauds Railway Ministry for announcing a growth oriented Budget.
'In India, China's capacities to conduct new types of warfare is critically underestimated,' says Claude Arpi.
Accusing successive governments under Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh of plundering public money, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at these parties for "lacking vision" for the state's development and their "mistrust" of Centre's "pro-poor" policies.
United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday favoured an approach of welfare and development to defeat left-wing extremism and insurgency and bring back youth involved in it back to the democratic mainstream.
'Tarun Gogoi is incompetent to be chief minister. We heard Intelligence had warned him about possible aggression. Why did Gogoi fail to react?' 'Modi and his men have been spreading separatist messages across Assam for years. There is no way the BJP can shake off its responsibility now.' Former Assam minister Rameswar Dhanowar, who demanded Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's resignation for his failure to prevent the recent violence in Bodoland Territorial Areas District, speaks to Indrani Roy/Rediff.com
Raising concern over rising threat to country's security, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday demanded that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government must come out with a statement in the Parliament informing about the level of preparation for securing country's frontier in the north and north east, and assure people that government will take adequate steps for country's security.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday linked rising cases of rapes to increase in the population, while claiming that there were only 45 such cases until November 2012 in Kolkata in comparison to 621 in Delhi in the same year.
Wrestling will implement a string of immediate changes as the sport seeks to win back its Olympic spot with time fast running out, acting international federation (FILA) president Nenad Lalovic said on Thursday.
Does India's first political family see some serious threat to its own bastions? The question was doing rounds in Uttar Pradesh, where lie Rae Bareli and Amethi -- the respective parliamentary constituencies of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president son Rahul Gandhi. Sharat Pradhan reports.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that to remove corruption, the political system in the country should give a "strong voice" to the people."To remove corruption, the political system in the country should give a strong voice to the people. Therefore, organisations like the Youth Congress should open their doors to the common man," Gandhi said while addressing a Youth Congress membership drive rally at Ampati.
The counter fast of Gujarat Congress leaders Shankersinh Vaghela and Arjun Modhvadia against Chief Minister Narendra Modi's 72-hour 'Sadbhavana Mission', entered the second day on Sunday.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday tweeted that the United States Congressional Research Service report on Gujarat is recognition for the six crore people of the state.
'Muslims may turn to the BJP or may not come out to vote in great numbers like they have in the past.' 'Anything can happen.' 'They can feel an increased sense of alienation, but that depends on the BJP -- on how it includes them.'
'The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.' Former RA&W official Jayadeva Ranade explains what China's military reforms mean for the world.
'The creation of Pakistan was integral to Britain's grand strategy.' 'If they were to ever leave India, Britain's military planners had made it clear that they needed to retain a foothold in the NWFP and Baluchistan because that would provide the means to retain control of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar.'
The absence of a clear underlying economic ideology in the Budget was quite evident, say experts.
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