India Needs A National Security Strategy

The National Security Strategy document should flag all major issues concerning security strategy and provide guidelines to concerned departments to work out suitable action plans. Since the global......

'Success was 100 per cent sure'

'The rocks, the geology of the Himalayas will always spring surprises.''It's basically force majeure and the will of god.' IMAGE: Rescue operations at the tunnel in Uttarkashi, November 28, 2023.......

Cyclone Biparjoy: Army, IAF, Navy ready for rescue ops

As Cyclone Biparjoy made landfall near Jakhau Port in Gujarat on Thursday evening, the armed forces asserted operational readiness for relief and rescue work that would follow. IMAGE: Army......

'They wanted to strike terror in India'

'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......

Detroit bailout not about saving auto firms

In the ongoing power struggle between Republicans and Democrats, Detroit is the latest, and possibly the bloodiest, battleground. And because it is a battle of ideologies with no apparent......

Laws may have to intrude on hospitality

We are at a stage that jargonists would call an 'inflexion point' -- a point at which a curve on a graph makes a significant move upwards or downwards. The vulnerability exposed by India's business......

Global oil shortage looms large

A multitude of world issues are converging and manifest themselves around future fossil fuel, energy resources, carbon dioxide, oxygen depletion, including water and mineral depletion. All combined......

It's not Tata. It's the govt, stupid!

Whatever else the Tata Nano may have achieved or not achieved, it has -- for the first time -- got the entire country talking about a car, instead of cricket or religion or politics. I thought I......

IPL8: Emotions, eyesores, and things besides cricket

'Sehwag, Yuvraj, Zaheer, Harbhajan, Irfan. The bunch that formed the formidable force of Dada's team. Have we seen the last of them?' wonders Abhijit Masih. The nation wants to know the reason......

Tight security for Bahrain Grand Prix

Bahrain authorities say they have taken all necessary precautions to ensure security when the Middle East hosts a Formula One race for the first time next week.A statement issued in London on......