Pakistan has a stockpile of approximately 170 nuclear warheads which could realistically grow to around 200 by 2025 at the current growth rate, according to top American atomic scientists. "We......
UPA-2 seems to have completely lost direction in almost every single way be it in governance, national security, internal security, development initiatives, poverty alleviation and corruption......
At least 78 persons, most of them civilian workers in a cluster of arms production factories located in the heavily-protected cantonment area of Wah, about 30 km from Islamabad, were reported to......
The precipitate hanging of former President Saddam Hussein of Iraq on December 30 was probably inappropriate, illegal, and counter-productive. This is for several reasons: one, that there were......
Movies, music and games is what you'd expect by way of in-flight entertainment. But learning the letters of a new language? Singapore Airlines thought it was possible. Last week it announced a......
On the first day of the last week of 2003, Business Standard's "Reader's Write" column published an angry letter signed by several women's organisations and other NGOs. It contained a well-reasoned......
'Netflix is very happy with me. Mamla Legal Hai has opened the big bazaar in the heartland for them.' IMAGE: Ravi Kishan in Laapataa Ladies. After getting high praise for his cop act in Laapataa......
Rocky Aur Rani is definitely Karan Johar's most subversive project, discovers Aseem Chhabra. There is a moment nearly towards the end of Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani. There is a Durga Puja......
1997: A fast and furious year for Bollywood. Superstar Sridevi married producer Boney Kapoor and gave birth to her firstborn Janhvi. Shah Rukh Khan turned daddy when wife Gauri delivered Aryan.......
Vijay Patil of Raamlaxman fame passed away into the ages on May 22. Though his partner Ram passed way back in 1976, Vijay Patil continued to compose music under the name Raamlaxman. After making......
'What an artiste!' IMAGE: Vidya Sinha in Rajnigandha. We would probably not have known about poet-lyricist Yogesh Gaur's passing had Lata Mangeshkar not tweeted about it. Among the most articulate......