Opposition members in the Lok Sabha on Thursday expressed concern over incursion by Chinese troops in Chamoli district of Uttarkhand and wanted immediate steps to counter such actions while......
They say Beijing is all about power while Shanghai is all about money. Two factors combined to make Shanghai that way. First, the city was 'internationalised' by marauding European traders in the......
The Indian government's assertions that its first nuclear explosion in 1974 was for peaceful purposes was described by Chinese diplomats as "nonsense" and that the then prime minister Indira Gandhi......
'Magnanimity and appeasement have no place in the world of realpolitik as India has learned the hard way,' notes Vivek Gumaste in the first of a two-part column. IMAGE: An Indian Army convoy on......
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is not widely known in India. A Frenchmen of Jewish origin, his fame rests on his novel Remembrance of Things Past. It is considered, after Tolstoy's War and Peace, the......
Financialised masses not only provide feedstock inputs but are also voters whose political support for funded savings cannot be taken for granted, says Ajit Balakrishnan.My office in New York, at......
Elitist critics dismissed him as a workhorse compared to singing thoroughbred Mohammed Rafi. For all that, Mahendra Kapoor -- who passed away on September 27 -- stayed the course,with a hoi-polloi......
IMAGE: India’s top-ranked shuttler Saina Nehwal. Photograph: PTI. Star Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal entered the second round of women's singles with a comfortable victory, but P V......
London Olympics quarter-finalist Parupalli Kashyap and rising Indian woman shuttler P V Sindhu won their respective first round matches in the men's and women's singles event in the Badminton Asia......