Nikhil Lakshman remembers the times he spent with the legendary writer who passed into the ages six days before his 86th birthday. IMAGE: Sir V S Naipaul gives the Nobel lecture at the Old Stock......
'Drought in the 1990s was essentially the drought of a poor India.''This 2016 drought is of a richer and more water-guzzling India.''The severity and intensity of the drought is not about lack of......
'Why are so many Indians willing to compromise their freedoms and those of their compatriots for the cause of economic progress and to see a shining India,' asks Aseem Chhabra. It is not a good......
On Wednesday, Mumbai sessions courtjudge MW Chandwani pronounced his verdict that met with disbelief among the digiterati: "On the basis of the confession coupled with the circumstantial evidence......
Curfew continued for the second day in Jammu on Thursday, with extra-ordinary security bandbast to prevent the eruption of further protests against the cancellation of the forest land allotment to......
L&T, Ircon International and Tata Projects have showed interest in a tender issued by the National High Speed Rail Corporation, implementing agency for the project.The tender is for construction of......
Reliance Communications has initiated the process to monetise its real estate assets across the country, aiming to raise Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) through this. The company will use the......
Oscar winner Julia Roberts will reportedly not shoot Eat, Pray, Love in the original ashram (retreat) where author Elizabeth Gilbert stayed for about four months a few years back in India, trying......
Services Sports Control Board runners Shivdan Singh and Bhairo Singh Lone will spearhead the Indian challenge in the Standard Chartered Mumbai International Marathon on Sunday.Shivdan, who finished......