Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar also said that an alliance similar to the one stitched up in Bihar is needed at the national level for the next Lok Sabha elections. Senior Congress......
Image: People watch as a gun carriage conveys the body of the late first Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, from the Istana to the Parliament House, where he will lie in state until......
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father and first prime minister, passed away on Monday at the age of 91. Yew's passing has reminded the world of his substantive influence on Singapore. The......
With Koirala no more, Asia has lost yet another grand old man of politics - the likes of him have always been rare. With the death of Girija Prasad Koirala of Nepal, from prolonged ailments at the......
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will lead the state funeral of former President Haji Mohammed Suharto today. Suharto died on Sunday in Jakarta at the age of 86 after suffering......
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced setting up of a nodal office in Singapore to promote global investments into West Bengal. "To facilitate your investment, we will......
I deeply appreciate the invitation from the ISAS to address this august gathering of policy makers, eminent academics, and market participants of Singapore. Singapore is an important financial......
Few words are so filled with disdain as chakrani -- feminine for chakar or servant -- in Bengali. The only equivalent I can think of in English English, that is, when spoken by the traditional......
Infosys chairman N R Narayana Murthy may still be smarting from a spat with a politician, but he was on Saturday asked by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew to enter politics to "transform......