Why Indian celebrities choose silence

"A Meryl Streep or Jimmy Kimmel can speak their mind, and stay assured that they won't be harmed." "That does not happen in India. Goons can land up anywhere unannounced. The rampant online abuse......

PM's expert group on Kashmir to meet on Friday

The high-level expert group led by former Reserve Bank of India governor C Rangarajan to formulate a jobs plan for Jammu and Kashmir is likely to meet on Friday in New Delhi. The committee was......

Cong invites experts to help draft manifesto

Eager to shed its image of a party which thinks and lives in the past, the Congress is keen to be seen as a modern, all-inclusive entity whose focus is not only on politics but on life beyond that.......

Cheney to lobby for N-deal

In an unprecedented gesture, US Vice President Dick Cheney will headline the 31st Anniversary Leadership Summit of the US-India Business Council titled, 'Implementing the US-India Strategic......

India is demonised by US whenever economic disputes arise

Tarun Das, former Director General and Chief Executive of the Confederation of Indian Industry from 1967 to 2004, after which he served as chief mentor from 2004 to 2009, and considered the......

Amit Mitra, Tarun Das leave a long legacy

When Amit Mitra took charge as secretary-general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry close to two decades ago, this grand old organisation of Indian business had lost much......

Deepa Prahalad to take her father's legacy forward

As a rule, when Tarun Das speaks, he is to be taken seriously. The exception occurs when the Confederation of Indian Industry's former chief mentor says that Deepa Prahalad is a clone of her......

Delhi's Bengali power forms a Bong Connection

The murmurs of a resurgence of Bengali intelligentsia are getting louder on the Capital's Raisina Hill. So, when Tarun Das, ex-chief mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industry, and Shekhar......