When elected on July 18 -- which is almost a certainty, given the NDA's numbers in the electoral college -- Droupadi Murmu will be the first President born after Independence. IMAGE: Droupadi......
'...Cliffy with utter disregard to his personal safety, charged through the fire zone, closed in on the enemy, threw hand grenades inside their bunkers and killed six enemy soldiers!' '...He was......
'I have been in the Dalit movement for 27 years, I have not heard of R N Kovind's views on the Dalit agenda.''He is a BJP man among Dalits, not a Dalit man in the BJP.' What does Ram Nath Kovind's......
"Nothing earthshaking" was one senior analyst's verdict on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 45-minute meeting with United States President George W Bush on Monday morning. The prime minister voiced......
Colonel Sonam Wangchuk was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, India's second highest honour for courage, for wresting the first victory of the Kargil War.Leading 40 men, his unit evicted 135 Pakistani......
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) slightly shortened the time period by which foreign investors must use up their government debt limits to ensure that all of the unused quotas are......
India is talking with JP Morgan and others to gain entry to benchmark indexes for emerging market debt in hopes of attracting billions of dollars in investment and may ease some restrictions on......
Finance Minister P Chidambaram said fears the Federal Reserve would start reversing its US monetary stimulus programme were unfounded but his remarks failed to prevent steep falls in domestic......
After long failing to act on foreign investor complaints, Indian policy makers find themselves in an ironic bind: As global interest in Indian derivatives surges, it is Singapore, not Mumbai, that......
Uncertainty may shroud their deemed status with the apex court yet to deliver its final verdict. However, admissions to nearly 50 per cent of deemed universities blacklisted by the Ministry of......
Cigarette Ki Tarah is so bad, it doesn't deserve any stars, writes Ankur Pathak.At the press screening of this half-heartedly created music video, which tries to convince itself that it is an......