Sitharaman said keeping morale of forces at the highest level was among the priorities of the government.
'Bolstering India's conventional military capability against China is in America's strategic interest,' says military historian Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com meets the families of the victims of the stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone railway station.
'Find a great date, or great dates for the rest of your lives, or maybe a great friendship.'
This will be Modi's second US visit after he was elected PM.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh married television anchor Amrita Rai.
About 1,000 such cabs have been registered on the company's platform so far
Most customers still don't understand this concept and are unable to benefit from it.
India questioned the functioning of Pakistan's notorious military courts.
A woman has accused a driver of app based cab service TaxiForSure of indulging in vulgar act while driving her from South Delhi's Saket to Faridabad.
Nobody will be willing to connect with someone who has a blank picture on your profile.
'The airline business is very dynamic. If you are unable to keep up and lead, you end up last.' 'This is what has happened to Jet.'
India, the bank's second biggest shareholder after China, is looking to borrow from the AIIB.
'With the new DPP, there will be greater transparency and faster clearances.'
Sepp Blatter has announced his decision to stand down at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI had raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA officials.
People think I do this for money, but I don't. I do it because I value data privacy, says Anand Prakash.
Identifying terror emanating from Pakistan as the "greatest threat" to regional peace and stability, India and Afghanistan have said that setting up an effective counter-terror framework to deal with the challenge will be a major focus at the two-day Heart of Asia conference beginning Saturday.
Heineken could call a shareholder meeting to vote on his ouster from a company his father built into a family empire
LinkedIn claims that having a profile picture can get you '21x more profile views and 9x more connection requests'.
Last week, the Supreme Court refused to grant interim relief to the operators.
The international operations of Air India seem to be the main attraction for IndiGo, which has also flagged concerns about some foreign overseas airlines being allowed "disproportionate access" to the Indian market.
Customers of US cable companies took to social media on Saturday to report problems ordering the pay-per-view (PPV) for the boxing megafight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, which was expected to smash records.
Voicing his frustration over the double game played by the Inter-Services Intelligence in the war against terror after 9/11, a former central intelligence agency chief has said that "duplicitous" is a gentler way to describe the notorious Pakistani spy agency, which has close links with terror groups.
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's address on the eve of 70th Republic Day of India.
How many 22 year olds gets the ears and eyes of Yogi Deveshwar, Kumarmangalam Birla, Shashi Ruia, T V Narendran and Naveen Patnaik?
China plans to build a 540-kilometre strategic high-speed rail link between Tibet and Nepal passing through a tunnel under Mount Everest, a move that could raise alarm in India about the Communist giant's growing influence in its neighbourhood.
Law student Srishti Aishwarya Shrivastava lists out the not-to-obvious reasons why you should look forward to an internship.
Modi will host dinner for Abe at a hotel in the old city area.
Facebook blocked 5,832 pieces of content during July-December 2014 on orders of the Indian government.
Your next ride via the Ola app in an auto rickshaw could be cashless.
Awfis stands out for its 'ambience' and 'ease of doing business'.
TRAI removed network interconnection charges.
The UK has launched a probe after a "disturbing" footage caught a teacher on camera making anti-Muslim and Christian remarks to students at a camp organised by an RSS-inspired charity.
Have you ever heard of/or played this longest-running virtual game?
'Although the Election Commission remains convinced about the EVM's integrity, as a fair umpire of the game it was necessary to travel the last mile to convince political players that the entire process was not only fair but transparently so.' A fascinating excerpt from former Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla's new book, Excerpted from Every Vote Counts: The Story Of India's Elections.
A former employee of a media company revisits the time she was laid off and shares the lessons she has learnt.
Minister for Development of North Eastern Region Jitendra Singh said the government is trying to woo industries to the eight Northeastern states so that enough jobs are created for the youths of the region.
The company is a facilitator of taxis (therefore an intermediary) and is best governed under the IT Act said Neeraj Singhal, Uber's head of expansion in India.
Extreme political views and decent humour in the cyber world cannot be prohibited, Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday while making out a case for blocking outrageous and offensive contents hurting religious sentiments.
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