Modi Preaches World Peace But...

'...We should first look at and acknowledge what we have done to ourselves.' 'To not do so opens us to the accusation of rank hypocrisy and also reduces the stature of our globetrotting peaceniks,'......

Rashtrapati Bhavan guest house to open after 19 years

The Rashtrapati Bhavan will showcase India's hospitality at its very best when the doors of its gleaming new guest wing are thrown open on Monday for foreign dignitaries after it remained unused......

George Clooney wants Biden to drop re-election bid

George Clooney, the Hollywood actor and influential Democratic financial supporter, has called for United States President Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign, arguing that the president is......

Cat or leopard? Delhi police reveal mystery over animal at Modi oath taking

Bharatiya Janata Party MP Durga Das Uikey's oath-taking ceremony made a splash on Monday for the unlikeliest of reasons -- a video of a shadowy animal sauntering in the Rashtrapati Bhavan corridor......

H-1B visas may be hiked: US Senate member

United States Senate majority leader Bill Frist is hopeful that a full vote in the upper house would clear a comprehensive immigration reform bill that includes provisions for hefty increases in......

A fantasy trip onboard the Deccan Odyssey

Anybody who's watched the 1974 whodunit Murder on the Orient Express or read The Mystery of the Blue Train will find it hard to resist the fantasy of a week on a luxuriously languorous train ride......

NRI entrepreneur flays NYT over 'smear campaign'

Vinod 'Vin' Gupta, 60, the multi-millionaire chairman and CEO of infoUSA and focus of a major article in the New York Times in the Washington Post on May 26 regarding a lawsuit that brandshis using......

Who really snubbed Jesse Owens?

Every four years, when the Summer Olympics hit the headlines, some media outlet or the other mentions the great Jesse Owens and his victories at the 1936 Berlin Games. Inevitably, the story of his......