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Army commanders to meet in Sikkim forward area on Thursday

The two-phase Army Commanders' Conference during which the Army will review current operational preparedness and deliberate on critical strategies is set to begin in Sikkim on Thursday. IMAGE:......

Modi Is Being Outnumbered And Out-Rallied

This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point......

Numbers Don't Add Up For BJP In Tamil Nadu

Indications are that the DMK combine will win more seats than the AIADMK and BJP, but is facing a tough fight in about half a dozen from the rest, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy of the electoral......

'Modi hasn't forgotten his human touch'

'The prime minister is talking to his Chachaji and he is crying in the PM's lap, it was such an emotional scene.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi speaks to a child at the Indian American......

Be Prepared for Taliban Terror

Pakistan would want to take full advantage of the situation to direct Taliban trained terrorists into the Kashmir Valley, alert Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd) and Colonel Anil A Athale......

In Digital India, SAAS firms are lapping up young execcutives

Indian firms selling SAAS products have got a bonanza as companies meet, manage and sell remotely. The top five firms - Zoho, Freshworks, HighRadius, Druva, and Icertis - account for 33 per cent of......

Why Rera hasn't been a great relief for home-buyers

Rera's implementation is patchy across states, and the powers of the regulator to enforce its orders are also limited. The Uttar Pradesh real estate regulator granted relief to advocate Vivek......

'FY18 will be tough for India's economy'

'It will take a long time for the effects of demonetisation to wear away, and I am not even sure that a year lost, can at all be even recovered.' IMAGE: "The economy was tepid even prior to......

Economic crisis chokes world's biggest economies

In the first week of the 16th year of the new millennium, the world seems to have caught severe pneumonia, or worse, as China had the flu, notes Shreekant Sambrani. "Sensex crosses 25,000." Indian......

The trouble with FDI in media

Global majors such as Comcast and Liberty Global have refrained from making investments in the Indian cable industry, given the lack of last-mile control. Similarly, poor profitability, poor growth......

Why Aattam Is A Masterpiece

What follows is essentially a long scene set in a single location, and you watch in amazement as the scene grows into one of Indian cinema's funniest and most spectacular pieces of sustained......

Chamak Review: Fast Forward To Isha Talwar

It's not uncommon for performers to become bigger than the stories they are placed in and Sreehari Nair would happily pay to watch Isha Talwar and Paramvir Singh Cheema riffing on love, bad life......

Finally! An Indian Coming-Of-Age Movie For Grownups

Dear Friend is for those who idealised Dil Chahta Hai all out of proportion, and then warmed up to the premise that friendship could be a lot more complicated, and transient, observes Sreehari......

City of Dreams 2 review

The second season of City Of Dreams has more pulp, hardly any juice, feels Sreehari Nair. Season 1 of Nagesh Kukunoor's City of Dreams, for all its pulpiness, aspired to paint an epic vision of......

That talent called Amit Mistry

Amit Mistry was a wicked actor, someone who could chance a broken arm, who could take deep dives, who could ram his head into walls, all without bothering about the outcome. And, as with that......

How Do We Prepare For LA 2028? We Don't.

You don't prep for 2028 but for 2040, or even 2044.Sustained sporting excellence is based on mass support, grassroots development, and funding -- and it is this trifecta India needs to work on,......

Shakhtar can be proud despite losing two points, says coach Jovicevic

IMAGE: Shakhtar coach Igor Jovicevic is proud of his side's personality and grit displayed in their match against Real Madrid Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters Shakhtar Donetsk coach Igor......

Shakhtar can be proud despite losing two points, says coach Igor Jovicevic

IMAGE: Shakhtar coach Igor Jovicevic is proud of his side's personality and grit displayed in their match against Real Madrid Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters Shakhtar Donetsk coach Igor......

Without me, would Virat go wild with the bat?

'My type exists in heaps -- millions really -- cheering, cussing and calculating from the comforts of our living room as if the television screen can magically convey our woe or wisdom to the......

Cincinnati Open round-up: Federer eases through; Bencic rolls on

Switzerland's Roger Federer returns a forehand to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut during the Western & Southern Open at the Lidler Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday. Photograph: Maddie......

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