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......

'Guns Never Bring Peace'

'They only bring pieces. Dialogue is the only way forward.' 'We should get people who have influence to bring the community leaders to sit across the table and talk.' 'Otherwise, our adversaries......

What Mahabali Won't Hear

Questions that the state had come to recognise over time but consistently delayed treating seriously because doing so requires an overhaul of perspective and lifestyle, notes Shyam G Menon. IMAGE:......

'We're Not Anti-Nationals'

'We are not secessionists, we want to coexist with our countrymen but not on the terms that will strip us off our dignity and a right to peaceful existence.' IMAGE: Unau Tribal Forum members stage......

Why Amit Mitra is important to Mamata

No longer Bengal's finance minister, Amit Mitra, Mamata's principal chief advisor, will still advise and aid the 'chief minister and finance department on all matters relating to management of......

An open letter to the RBI governor

Central banking is a science, not an art, Tamal Bandyopadhyay tells RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. IMAGE: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. Dear Governor, The day you took over as India's chief money......

Adi Godrej: 'There's no dearth of jobs in India'

'What exists instead is a clear gap between skilled people and the work at hand.' 'Employers on most occasions find it difficult to find a match between the two,' Adi Godrej tells Viveat Susan......

Vajpayee: The father of 2nd generation economic reforms

Modelled loosely around the National Highway System of the US, he in 2001 launched the Golden Quadrilateral and the North-South & East-West Corridor projects to build 4/6 lane highways between four......

Rohit to remain captain, BCCI satisfied with his leadership

IMAGE: Rohit Sharma along with head coach Rahul Dravid, attended the review meeting in Mumbai. Photograph: Molly Darlington/Reuters There is no imminent threat to Rohit Sharma's ODI and Test......

Chetan Sharma-led senior national selection committee sacked

IMAGE: Chief selector Chetan Sharma. Photograph: Twitter The BCCI on Friday sacked the four-member senior national selection committee led by Chetan Sharma after the Indian cricket team failed to......

Buzz: BCCI sponsors not concerned over Ganguly endorsing rival

IMAGE: BCCI president Sourav Ganguly. Photograph: ANI BCCI president Sourav Ganguly endorsing fantasy gaming platform My11Circle does not concern its direct rivals and the board's official......

Jamshedpur hand NEUFC first defeat in landmark game

IMAGE: Jamshedpur FC's Jackichand Singh in action against a NorthEast United FC player during their ISL match at Vasco in Goa on Friday. Photograph: ISL/Twitter NorthEast United FC slumped to......

Infighting in IOA over decision-making

Don't run IOA office as one-man show, IOA secretary Rajeev Mehta tells chief Narinder Batra in a stinging letter.   IMAGE: The Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra (left) and......