Kashmir: Vote For Hope After A Long Decade

It's just not about selecting a candidate. It's not about helping some candidate win.It's about expressing emotion, after ten years, that could reach out to larger India and beyond it, notes Sheela......

Anti-encroachment drive against J-K ex-minister, hotelier close to Abdullahs

Authorities in Kashmir went into overdrive on Tuesday to retrieve the encroached government land from influential persons, as they demolished outer walls of the properties belonging to a former......

Mehbooba's new home prone to terror attacks: Security agencies

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti's eviction from her Gupkar residence has the security agencies on their toes as they claim her new accommodation is "not feasible" for a......

Manipur: A Distant Outpost Full Of Promise

A lesson we have not learnt from China is the urgent need to knit the vast country together to keep it from falling apart at the seams.While there is considerable dent in poverty, sadly, the North......

Communists are the greatest consumerists!

China teaches - and the Great Kolkata Shopping Festival confirms - that Communists are the greatest consumerists. Shopping is the new opiate of the masses. I thought one bought what one needs when......

At Singapore you shop till you drop

In Singapore, you can't throw a stone without hitting a mall," a fellow hack exclaimed as we boarded Singapore Airlines on our return journey to New Delhi after three days of retail therapy had......

How about netting the dream house?

Real estate portals in India are on a roll, despite the relative slump in the market. Traffic and listings have been rising exponentially, and while mid-sized, moderately priced properties are the......

This is what dreams are made of

Imagine the view from the 20th floor of a condominium with its grounds landscaped into lush green gardens, a swimming pool and interesting water features.A place where you walk into a plush......