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......

Govt can always acquire owner's land: SC

In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court has held that irrespective of a decree in favour of the owner, the government was still entitled to issue a notification for acquiring private land.......

A tale of two PMOs

The prime minister's office must necessarily reflect the personality of its boss. Since the incumbent, Manmohan Singh, is the low-key type, the PMO is no longer an overbearing superstructure......

Govt to shut 3 HMT units, offers VRS to employees

The Department of Heavy Industry has been undertaking appraisals of each loss making CPSE to assess the prospects of revival.  The government on Wednesday decided to close three unviable units......

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......

When time ran out for HMT

For many of us, HMTs are the first watches we wore, a rite of passage to adulthood, says Rahul Jacob. As a colleague and I darted down a dirty alley behind the glamorous shopping colonnades of......

79 sick PSUs await FM's privatisation move

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s Wednesday statement that the government is open to privatising sick public-sector undertakings seems to offer hope on 79 state-run companies that had an......

Mr India, the Bollywood superhero everybody loves

Harshvardhan Kapoor's vigilante film, Bhavesh Joshi, made Sukanya Verma look back at Bollywood's original vigilante and Harshvardhan's father, Anil Kapoor, in and as Mr India, which......

Robby Grewal: Sushmita is not a Kiran Bedi

Robby Grewal did not join the film industry for money. Orfame. Or even a passion for films.He simply wanted to get away from his father's business.The 28 year-old director, who prefers to be called......