If Saudi Arabia, with just two Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina, can create a huge tourism-based ecosystem beyond oil, Ayodhya is sure to become the world's hottest religious tourism site in......
The temple town is likely to witness a major jump in tourist inflow once flagship projects are commissioned. In the first six months of 2022, more than 20 million tourists visited Ayodhya. To......
How China's all powerful Communist party bungled the response to the coronavirus crisis. IMAGE: Passengers at the Shanghai railway station. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters Srikanth Kondapalli is the......
A series of rape incidents, a minister going behind bars in an air hostess suicide case and sexual abuse of women and child inmates in a shelter home brought infamy to Haryana in 2012,......
The multi-lane highway that paves 'India Shining' took a powerful blow with the murder of Satyendra Dubey, but the aftermath has been uninspiring. The Prime Minister's Office, the highways......
The intensity of power crisis this season has hit a new high with average coal stock dipping to less than eight days. Photograph: Babu/Reuters The first of a pan-Indian series, based on a ground......
A stake sale of Reliance’s real estate portfolio would help it raise anything between $1-5 billion and could be one of the triggers for the company’s shares to break out. With an asset......
SEZs account for just about a third of India's merchandise exports (and roughly the same proportion of services exports). Yet, the notion of creating global manufacturing centres of the kind that......
Despite the Jat agitation and investor scepticism, the state is trying hard to improve ease of doing business by several notches. The seventh of a 11-part series looks at the state of affairs in......
India contributes less than two per cent to Panasonic’s Rs 4.74 lakh crore ($71 billion) global revenue. However, Manish Sharma, the new president and chief executive of Panasonic India and......