Abe Shinzo: A giant departs Japanese politics

'There shall be no change in India-Japan ties,' predicts Rajaram Panda. IMAGE: Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo at the news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, August......

'Ram Rahim verdict shows no one is above the law'

'We realised that the government and police were shielding the Dera chief.'  'From 2002 to now, irrespective of which political party, the Dera has always been protected.' A special Central......

Sheena Bora Trial: When Mekhail last met Sheena

After the wedding, Sheena and Mekhail did not meet again.Four or five months later she met her death.Mekhail referred to their last meeting without overt emotion, clear-eyed.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel......

Why 7,000 shoes are lined up on the US Capitol lawn

Seven thousand. That’s the number of children that have died owing to gun violence since the Sandy Hook school massacre in December 2012 in the United States of America. And to mark this......

A new fintech world is upon us amid funding drought, lower valuations

In January, Visa’s chief executive officer, Al Kelly, said during an earnings call that “there’s been a burst of the balloon in valuations in the fintech world”.......

What Telecom Man reveals about India's business-politics links

'It's the brazen corruption involving politicians that makes you sit up years after the event,' notes Nivedita Mookerji after reading B K Syngal's Telecom Man. IMAGE: Brijendra K Syngal. Some......

Why is the stockmarket reacting like this?

'If the epidemic is sharply contained in a month or two, we have a huge buying opportunity.''If not, we are staring at a serious economic crisis, the contours of which we are totally unaware of,'......

3 reasons why fall in crude prices won't benefit India

Usually, a fall in oil prices is followed with a cut in retail prices of auto fuels and the government passes on the benefit to consumers. However, Morgan Stanley believes gains this time around......

30 RD Burman Gems You May Not Have Heard

Rahul Dev Burman made enough music to last a million lifetimes. As it happens in the case of every prolific artist, some of his work received more love than others. When one thinks of RD classics,......

'Nitin Desai was the best at what he did'

IMAGE: Nitin Chandrakant Desai, right, with Hema Malini. Photograph: Kind courtesy Hema Malini/Twitter Film personalities on Wednesday condoled the demise of celebrated art director Nitin Desai,......

'It is only when love dies that you start blaming the other'

'Love, be it between a boy and a girl or your passion for your craft, carries with it no complaints.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Nawazuddin Siddique/Instagram An interview with Nawazuddin Siddiqui......

When Jugal Hansraj Was Paid More Than Priyanka Chopra

'I wasn't getting the roles I wanted to play and the respect I thought I deserved as a senior actor, so I cut myself off from the industry for a while and moved to the US.' Photograph: Kind......