'The Congress is in no position to spend as much as the BJP under Modi will spend to fight the Lok Sabha election.' 'BJP has lot of money. Even a rich person like me is scared of taking on the......
'The entire idea behind the serial bomb blasts was to strike fear in the minds of Indians.''I don't think the blasts were targeted to derail the Indian economy; the idea behind the blasts was......
Why omit the Tiananmen massacre from the history of China's Communist party? asks Claude Arpi. IMAGE: The most famous image from the crushing of the Tiananmen Square uprising: A Chinese citizen......
IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the BRICS summit in Goa. Photograph: BRICS/Facebook. The BRICS summit made clear that......
On the eve of President Xi Jinping’s India visit, China on Friday stuck to its guns saying that there was no change in its stand on India’s Nuclear Suppliers Group membership bid and......
Energy-hungry China has signed a landmark $40 billion deal to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Australia for 20 years that Chinese officials say would put the strained relations between Beijing......
Stagnant defence expenditure in India and set back to modernisation would be music to the ears of India's neighbours, writes Colonel (Dr.) Anil Athale (Retd.). An economist daughter of mine (Gold......
That was an unpleasant journey to Asia for Barack Obama. On one hand, it has shown to him that he has become President at a very unfavourable time. Against the powerful forces inflicted on him by......
If the city of Taichung succeeds in getting a Guggenheim Museum branch set up there, a goal its mayor, Jason Hu, is so valiantly fighting to achieve, it will reshape the cultural landscape not only......
There were little signs of rapprochement between the US-EU combine and the new alliance of developing countries, which has a new member in Turkey. While the G-22, formerly the G-21, sought the......
'...changed my image, changed everything.' 'Now I make calls with great confidence.' 'Day before yesterday, I sent a message to a director that I heard you are making a film, is there any role......
Politics is in the air, and in the movies. Audiences love escapist fare. Not too many films depicting the dismal state of India find takers. Fortunately, there are film-makers willing to look......
Sukanya Verma shares her nostalgic filmi week with us. From recalling my favourite moments in cricket in the enthusiastic vein of Amitabh Bachchan (think Namak Halal) and Aamir Khan......
'The films that I have done haven't been the drab, boring kind. Whether it was Chandni Bar or Astitva, I was very clear about choosing films that I knew had commercial elements in it.' 'Salman is......
The 87th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. A quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: BEST PICTURE American Sniper Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Boyhood The......
Images from Day 2 at the Olympics Swimmer Michael Phelps demolished his own world record to win a first Olympics gold on Sunday in the quest for an unprecedented eight, but conflict in Georgia and......