Budget 2025: Defence Must Be The Priority

'The first and most basic responsibility of any government is to protect its people from external threats and internal harm.''Budget 2025-2026 has to focus on meeting this responsibility,' asserts......

Yes, It Happened This Year

Some glimpses from the year gone by.   JANUARY Protecting Democracy In Brazil IMAGE: A security guard uses an anti-drone weapon against a drone flying near the Planalto Palace and the......

Al-Qaeda Genie Is Out Of The Bottle

... and there is no stopping its pan-Islamic agenda, cautions Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: Women shoot a damaged picture of Bashar al-Assad in Qamishli, Syria, December 8, 2024 after he fled......

India supports dialogue, not war: Modi at BRICS Summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday renewed his call for dialogue and diplomacy as being the only way forward to resolve conflicts, in an unambiguous message to press for the resolution of......

8 bn rubles of Indian oil firms stuck in Russia

As much as 8 billion rubles (about Rs 1,000 crore) of dividend income belonging to Indian oil firms is stuck in Russia after the Putin administration clamped down on dollar repatriation, officials......

Govt slaps export tax on petrol, diesel, ATF; windfall tax on crude oil

The government on Friday slapped an export tax on petrol, diesel and jet fuel (ATF) while also joining nations like the UK in imposing a windfall tax on crude oil produced locally. Illustration:......

India should hike defence spending to 4% of GDP

'As for tricky relations with China, India needs less of summitry type event management and more anticipatory analysis and management of events,' says Ambassador Jaimini Bhagwati. IMAGE: Prime......

Why gold prices are likely to spike this year

Geopolitical climate and equity markets as supportive for gold’s role as a risk hedge. GFMS Thomson Reuters has painted a bullish outlook for the global price of gold this year. The average......

'Friendship is the key to making a film'

'Film shooting is a long process, and it is important to have a good bonding with the person you are going to spend six to eight months of your life.''Baaki, film toh bann jaati hain.' IMAGE:......

Shashi Kapoor passes away

'He was God's good man and a beautiful human being beyond anything else.' IMAGE: Shashi Kapoor. Photograph: Kind courtesy ANI/Twitter Shashi Kapoor, the romantic screen icon of the 1960s, 1970s......

Will India's Akshat Singh win Simon Cowell's heart?

'I want to tell everyone that whether you are fat, slim, tall, short, black or white, it does not matter. What you are doing from the bottom of your heart is what matters.' India’s young......

The BEST International Films of 2021

2021 may go down in the history of world cinema as having produced the largest number of good quality films from across the world. What is remarkable is that practically all of these films were......

France arrests Russian suspected of planning to destabilize Olympics

IMAGE: The arrested man, a Russian national, has been placed in pre-trial detention and could face up to 30 years in prison, the Paris prosecutor's office said. Photograph: Abdul Saboor/Reuters......

Putin opens 2018 World Cup Stadium in Moscow

Image: Russian President Vladimir Putin talks to young soccer players during a visit to Spartak's stadium Otkrytie Arena in Moscow on Wednesday. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters Russia's......

World Cup: 'Superman' Valencia adds to cult status

Valencia, who was taken off for the last 15 minutes of Sunday's Group A game, has had a decade-long career in the Ecuador side, starting off as a winger but being converted to a striker in the......

China asked Russia to delay Ukraine war until after Winter Olympics?

IMAGE: The national flag of China and the flag of the International Olympic Comittee are pictured during the Winter Olympics closing ceremony. Photograph: Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters Senior......

Mission Possible: Kubica back in F1 eight years after serious injury

Former Renault driver Robert Kubica suffered a life-changing crash in 2011 when a steel guardrail penetrated his car and arm in a minor rally in north-west Italy. IMAGE: Robert Kubica underwent......