Over 87 pc Indians think Modi's policies make sense: survey

A Harvard school study has adjudged Prime Minister Narendra Modi as one of the four global leaders who enjoy high levels of confidence in handling both domestic and international affairs.Modi......

What Will Israel Do Next?

In days of smart, networked technology and no shame over collateral damage, what will blow up next -- cars, mobile phones, TV sets, refrigerators? And where?, asks Shyam G Menon. IMAGE: Smoke......

The Importance Of Russia And US For India

New Delhi has reached out to Moscow while waiting for a new president in Washington. New Delhi knows well that in international relations, there are no permanent friends or foes, only permanent......

If India Becomes Bharat...

By changing the nation's name from India to Bharat, would this landmass overnight lose the emotional and cultural linkage that had been built over generations, centuries and millennia, asks N......

'3 movies earned Rs 120 cr': Law Min dismisses slowdown

'Unless the economy is sound in the country how can only three movies collected so much business in a single day?' IMAGE: Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad interacts with media in Mumbai.......

Why is the world economy being shaky?

  New sources of financial and geo-strategic risk have caused the tremendous global shakiness, notes Claude Smadja What is going on? Stock and financial markets have been in turmoil since the......

Investors want progressive, consistent rules: Kidwai

India needs to have a regulatory regime that is consistent and progressive in nature to find a place in the investment roadmap of foreign companies, global banking giant HSBC's India chief Naina......

Good opportunity to make India a tourist hotspot

The rise in India's relative attractions lie in the precipitous decline in safety of the more popular destinations, notes Kanika Datta. All of a sudden, if you look around you, India appears to be......

Ganguly-Waugh: A fabricated rivalry?

With so many one-sided contests, any genuine rivalry in cricket these days is to be welcomed. What is not welcome, however, is media-driven hostility like that which supposedly exists between Steve......