Can Doval change defence planning in India?

'Defence does not new 'planning commissions'; it needs an implementation commission.'Ajai Shukla reports. IMAGE: National Security Adviser Ajit Doval. Successive defence ministries have adopted the......

Modi@1: Some positive steps, long way to go

It has been said that by 2025, India could become among the top five economies in the world. If India does become a $5 trillion economy but gets all its rivers polluted, food chain poisoned and......

Sangh Parivar restive after BJP's Delhi debacle

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s debacle in the Delhi legislative assembly elections has provided an opportunity to Sangh Parivar organisations upset on various counts to rap the Narendra......

Bal Apte built the generation Vivekananda aspired for

Bal Apte's life was his message, writes Tarun Vijay paying tribute to the RSS stalwart who passed into the ages last week In the late 'sixties, the chief examiner for Mumbai University's final year......

Corporatising OFBs: An idea whose time has come

'The much-awaited decision could be a welcome change at a time when the Indian armed forces are crying for self-reliance and the defence industry is looking forward to more indigenisation,' notes......

Modi needs to listen to good advice

Listening -- really listening -- to advisers in the government and outside would help.India has plenty of wise economists who have worked within the bureaucracy during previous crises, points out......

'Why are even our sewing needles made in China?'

'We are not able to manufacture even low-end products as cheaply as China.''We are not buying Chinese goods today out of any love for China.' IMAGE: A mango vendor opposes Chinese products as......

Magic pill to revive growth

How do we get back to higher growth?The heart of the problem lies in private corporate investment, recommends Ajay Shah.   Trend growth has been low in 2011-2020. In addition, business cycle......

Tamannaah-Vijay Attend Randeep-Lin's Reception

Randeep Hooda and Lin Laishram made a handsome couple at their wedding reception in Mumbai, where they invited their friends from the film industry. Their wedding ceremony was......

Manushi-Nushrratt Dress Up For Diwali

It's raining Diwali parties in Bollywood, and as film folk show off their glamorous outfits, they make sure not to repeat their fashion. We look at the arrivals at Actor-Producer Krishan Kumar's --......

Mrunal Stuns Pippa Screening

Pippa is a war film based on then Captain (later Brigadier) Balram Singh Mehta's experiences during the 1971 War. Ishaan Khatter plays Captain Balram Singh Mehta, Mrunal Thakur and Priyanshu......

What Shahid Finds 'Really Tough'

IMAGE: Shahid Kapoor. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Shahid Kapoor packs in a lot of blood and gore in his new film, Bloody Daddy, directed by Ali Abbas Zafar (Tiger Zinda Hai,......