Foreign Secretary Jaishankar gets 1-year extension

  Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, whose tenure was to end on January 28, on Monday got a one-year extension. The nod for the extension of his tenure till January 28, 2018 was given by the......

Pak govt washes hand off row over Indian envoy's Karachi event

Pakistan has said that Karachi Chambers of Commerce and Industries, which cancelled Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale's public engagement at the last minute, is an independent body, a day......

India summons Basit after Pak cancelled envoy's event

India on Wednesday summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit to lodge a strong protest over the "discourtesy" shown to India's envoy to Pakistan Gautam Bambawale. "Pakistan High Commissioner......

PM leaves for Tashkent to secure India's place in SCO; will lobby for NSG membership

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday left for Tashkent where he will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit and meet some world leaders like the Chinese President with whom the NSG......

Brazil BRICS summit to be Modi's first multilateral meeting

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the two-day summit of five-nation BRICS forum in Brazil next week when it is likely to give a concrete shape to establishment of a Development Bank......

Why Indian abstract art is so valuable

What makes Indian abstract art more valuable is its relative rarity.V S Gaitonde, S H Raza and J Swaminathan are the only major names in modern Indian art known for their abstracts, reports Namrata......

How effective will be PM's high-powered team in Paris meet?

India has suffered previously, especially from having small teams at the talks India’s team of negotiators for the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris comprises officials drawn......

Zeenat Aman, Rekha, Priyanka: Bollywood's avenging angels!

Even the so-called damsels-in-distress transform into raging Lyssas when badly offended!On celluloid, every single evil action faces consequences of the dramatic kind. Be it Amitabh Bachchan in......

Bollywood's 12 PROUD tiranga moments

When the Tricolour sways, hundreds of millions of Indian hearts swell up in pride. The Tricolour is a source of serious patriotic fervour as well as a relentless symbol of unity, purity and......

When Bollywood treated women badly...

We may have made great strides in science and technology, send space missions to Mars and Moon, but when it comes to something as basic as respecting women, the world has got it so, SO wrong.......

PIX: Sonam Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra at Jio MAMI Movie Mela

On the Day 3 of of the 17th Mumbai Film Festival was one day Movie Mela held at the Mehboob studio, Bandra in the western suburbs of Mumbai. On this occasion the cast and crew of the film Mr India......