The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors for "extraordinary efforts" to "achieve a world free of nuclear......
Here is the Brahma Mantra for mankind: So long as the world has leaders with judgement -- humane, compassionate, and no-nonsense in their thinking -- natural intelligence will prevail, notes R......
As the Russia-Ukraine conflict raged in 2022, the United States started "preparing rigorously" for a potential nuclear strike by Moscow against Kyiv, in what would have been the first nuclear......
The United States Department of Defence has announced that it will pursue a modern variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb, designated the B61-13, pending Congressional authorisation and......
The coup attempt has weakened Putin's position and in desperation he may well sanction the use of nukes, points out Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). IMAGE: Fighters of the Wagner private mercenary......
As it grapples with the growing influence of China, India is learning to reinvent its friendships with Japan and South Korea and position itself as a democratic counterpoise in the wider south-east......
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on Saturday asked foreign investors to invest in the country. Singh was in Barmer district of Rajasthan to inaugurate a terminal for supply of......
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said India hopes to conclude a free trade agreement with Japan by the end of the year, a step that is expected to help significantly expand bilateral trade and......
It was a rare function where money power supported by political power had an awesome effect in dazzling the participants. Some 250 rich, powerful and serious-looking Japanese gentlemen were waiting......
Part I: Simple ideas = BIG innovations?The greatest test of innovation is in its adoption - adoption by millions of people, to whom a simple solution for solving an everyday, living problem makes a......
The narrative is faithful to the source, American Prometheus, but what makes it absolutely spell-binding is Christopher Nolan's technique, notes Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: Cillian Murphy as J......
Oppenheimer is a very politically significant film for our time, observes Utkarsh Mishra. When 'American Prometheus' Dr J Robert Oppenheimer decided to lead the Manhattan Project to make the......
The Wolverine is an important film but that doesn't translate to it being good, writes Raja Sen.When we eventually look back at The Wolverine, Hugh Jackman's latest snikt-and-sideburns adventure,......
Sohan Roy is a mariner and the CEO of Aries Group, a consortium of ten firms based in Dubai, Sharjah, Kochi and Singapore. He is also the director of Dam 999, a Hollywood movie with 16......
Television's most popular reality show is back in its third season. Bigg Boss Season 3 or Tritiyaas Amitabh Bachchan kept calling it, took off on Sunday night with characteristic drama and some......
IMAGE: Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), bump elbows at the start of their talks at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office Building......
The report comes after two members of the Ugandan Olympic delegation tested positive for the coronavirus last month upon arrival in Japan. One tested positive at Narita airport near Tokyo, but the......
IMAGE: International Olympics Committee President Thomas Bach with Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters With just over a year to go until the Tokyo Olympics,......
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Gerard Pique says he will not be returning to Spain team. Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has......