Port Blair gets a name change: Sri Vijaya Puram it is

Port Blair, the capital city of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, has been renamed Sri Vijaya Puram, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced on Friday. IMAGE: President Droupadi......

Neighbourhood First At Modi's Swearing-In

Engagement with neighbours is a strategic imperative, and not an option, asserts Rup Narayan Das. IMAGE: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrives to attend Prime Minister designate Narendra......

'Hindutva Must Refute Nehru To Make Its Case'

'Nehru remains central to the polemic between the Congress and the BJP, or stated ideologically, between secular and Hindu nationalism.' 'The reason is that Nehru represents what is optimally......

US envoy for democracy, human rights to visit India

Uzra Zeya, a senior US diplomat in charge of democracy and human rights, will embark on a visit to India and Bangladesh beginning on Saturday to engage with civil society organisations on freedom......

New internet domain names prompt govt meet

The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) decision to expand gTLD (generic top-level domain) names on the internet to include almost any name (even .anything), is foxing both......

The Bt brinjal saga: When emotions ran high

India's controversial Bt brinjal saga has been a prickly issue confronting its agriculture when emotions ran high before the government put the brakes on Tuesday. And never since the days of the......

Can India have cult brands?

What does it take for a brand to achieve iconic status? Has any Indian brand reached the levels of customer empathy as, say, Harley-Davidson, Starbucks and Apple? Anmol Dar, managing director,......

Indian doctors in UK face joblessness

A large number of overseas doctors, mostly from India, who had flocked to Britain in response to the United Kingdom National Health Services' global appeal for more staff, are facing unemployment,......