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Indian killed in Israel went there only 2 months ago

A man hailing from Kerala who died in an anti-tank missile attack on Israel's northern border had gone there only two months ago to work in a poultry farm, his father said on Tuesday. While Nibin......

1 Indian killed, 2 others injured in anti-tank missile attack in Israel

An Indian national was killed and another two were injured on Monday when an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon by Hezbollah militants struck an orchard near Israel's northern border community of......

Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Chinese author Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mo Yan is often referred to as the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller, according to Wikipedia. He beat perennial......

Modinomics Ain't Right. It's Hindu-Left

It is in no way a government of the economic Right.The Right is limited to religion and nationalism.The rest is as Left as the Congress or any other party, observes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Prime......

What the fiddich! Why are books so fat?

Just as scotch bottles have become bigger, novels have also become fatter. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. A few days ago, a friend said he doesn’t read fiction. This reminded me of......

Botched debate over poverty line: A Catch-22 for UPA?

The manner in which the government and the political opposition in Delhi have been guilt-tripped into this debate on the poverty line is a reflection of a broader phenomenon that has taken root......

Why this obsession with the fiscal deficit target?

Don’t waste the money on politically motivated social programmes, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan. This column perks up its ears when it encounters economic illiteracy caused by what I......

Great leaders never waste a crisis, Mr Modi

'We aren't so unreasonable as to demand that he should have fully reversed Indira Gandhi's worst economic legacy, bank nationalisation.''But he could have made a beginning by selling off the two......

'Glad Cadbury stuck to SRK during his bad times'

'Once an ad, or a brand, has taken a stance, it should have the guts to stick to it.''You cant put out an ad and then issue an apology.' IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan in the Cadbury's ad. "I've never been......

Review: Stone Reader

Documentarian Mark Moskowitz sets off on his literary caper like a sort of book detective. His plan: find the author of an out-of-print novel, The Stones Of Summer, make a film about the quest, and......

Ghoul makes it terrifying to be a Muslim

'Any Muslim who shows even the slightest hint of revolutionary thought is marked as 'infected'.''At that point, he is taken to the nearest Detention Centre where a procedure called Reconditioning......

World Cup blog: Do we really want to see 1000-run ODI totals?

A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup South Africa's AB de Villiers bats during the 2015 World Cup match against the West Indies at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Photograph: Matt......

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