'ISI has planned it from the start'

'The ISI wanted to create internal disruption in the Valley by the killing of the security forces.' IMAGE: Relatives weep over the killing of 24 Kashmiri Pandits at a village in Nadimarg, 75 km......

The past is not a foreign country

'Despite a quarter century since India began the uphill battle of moving away from its peculiar hybrid of imperial-feudal-socialism, it remains distressingly -- and sometimes reassuringly -- the......

Exclusive! Old friends say 'Modi is our dream merchant'

'Only he can bring change in India that all of us have been dreaming of since we saw America for the first time when our plane touched down at JFK airport.' Narendra Modi's friends in New York and......

Reading this book is a little like eating at Barbeque Nation

Shekhar Gupta's anthology is a valuable addition to our understanding of the seeming muddle that is India. The experience of reading his columns is more like a chat with a friend in the afterglow......

Dept of Public Enterprises now part of FinMin

The government has merged the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) with the finance ministry to give it a better control over state-owned firms and facilitate its ambitious privatisation......

HMT Watches all set to offer VRS

HMT Watches employees have not received any raise since 1992 The proposal to wind up HMT Watches is likely to be finalised soon. The Bengaluru-based public sector undertaking is readying a......

Time finally runs out for HMT Watches

One of India’s biggest watch makers, HMT Watches will wind up soon.  The government has decided to shut down the company as it has been making losses since 2000, says a report in The......

Top posts vacant in 35 PSUs including Coal India, BSNL, NHPC

Several state-owned firms across the country are headless at the moment, with top posts lying vacant in as many as 35 Central Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) including Coal India, MTNL, BSNL......