'To compare bureaucrats to those in armed forces is laughable'

‘Service in the Armed Forces can’t be compared to government service. If that basic premise is not accepted, then there’s no scope for any debate on OROP’ ‘No one......

Birbhum Killings: Politician-Police-Criminal Nexus

The cycle of violence resulting from the increasing criminalisation of politics cannot stop, will not stop, unless there is a wider political consensus against relying on criminal mafias for......

India's silence on Syria will antagonise its friends

A very delayed and subdued reaction, at a time when the non-aligned world had expected a big country like India to come out in support of rights and justice. It was yet another example of the mealy......

Military options are never easy

One month ago dastardly terror attacks in Mumbai led to the death of almost 200 people, including 30 foreigners and 17 security forces personnel, while hundreds others were injured. However,......

India Inc cashes in on slowdown to save cost

The economic crisis has turned out to be a blessing in disguise for many Indian companies that bought expensive overseas assets when the financial markets were at their peak. All companies have cut......

Cementing a deal

When Grasim chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla hosted a celebration dinner on Thursday night he should have raised a toast to an unknown librarian.Why is that? Because it was the librarian who......

Impact of the coronavirus on Formula 1

Moody's changes Formula One's outlook to negative IMAGE: Fans show their disappointment outside the circuit after discovering the race was cancelled before practice for the F1 Grand Prix of......