SFI activist held for assaulting T P Sreenivasan

A day after former diplomat and Rediff.com columnist T P Sreenivasan was manhandled by Students Federation of India activists near Thiruvananthapuram, the prime accused, who slapped him, was......

Sour and sweet end to the Devyani drama

The dent on India-US relations caused by L'affaire Devyani will not remain for long as those will be determined by strategic and economic considerations, says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan. The only......

Now, Kerala Guv seeks action against finance minister, CM says no

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has written to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan seeking 'constitutionally appropriate' action against Finance Minister K N Balagopal for making a speech......

The Jaishankar I know

'S Jaishankar turned out to be a chip of the old block and that too, in modern parlance, a fully loaded chip. The father laid down the precepts of Indian strategy and diplomacy and the son put them......

Create job creators, not seekers: Kalam

Former president APJ Abdul Kalam has called for new ways to harness rural entrepreneurship and for reorienting the education system to address the twin issues of skills gap and employment."Create......

The better half is not shining!

In his address to the National Development Council in July, the prime minister stated, "Rare are moments of history when a nation suddenly captures the imagination of the world."Indeed, India is......

India must stop being the West's digital colony

'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,'......

The march of the new IITs

Seven select engineering colleges, that are soon to attain the coveted IIT status, are back in the news.The seriousness of their march towards achieving the status of an Indian Institute of......