Abe Shinzo: A giant departs Japanese politics

'There shall be no change in India-Japan ties,' predicts Rajaram Panda. IMAGE: Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo at the news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, August......

'All border situations were resolved through diplomacy'

'I am not minimising either the seriousness or the complex nature of the current situation.''Naturally, we have to do what it takes to secure our borders.''We are talking to the Chinese, both......

'China doesn't want war'

'China would rather tie us down and bleed us as much as it can so that we aren't able to lift our heads to face them.' IMAGE: An Indian Air Force helicopter seen flying over Eastern Ladakh, June......

With coronavirus fight, can India set an example?

India lacks China's culture of collective discipline, so what will provide the glue for people to co-operate rather than follow their raw survival instincts? asks Ravi Bhoothalingam.  IMAGE:......

Disaster risks grow, as India's cities flounder

Poor land-use planning, indiscriminate approvals of building plans and the absence of disaster-risk assessment in urban design have resulted in what experts term concentrated concretization,......

China's trade deficit temporary: Economists

Playing down a billion dollar trade deficit in China in the first quarter of fiscal year 2011, economists said the country would return to surplus path from April-June quarter. China reported its......

Telecom body urges India to liberalise the sector

Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI) is the representative industry body of Unified Access Service Licensees providing telecom services in the country with CDMA......

The Mahindra Xylo strategy

Mahindra Xylo targets one bird too many with its sedan-killer strategy. On a cloudy day, some time during August last year, a car was zipping down the rain-soaked Mumbai-Pune expressway. It was......