Trump picks anti-vaccine activist as health secretary

United States President-elect Donald Trump announced his decision to nominate former Democratic presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. as his Secretary of Health and Human Services. The......

Pak Army Chief Will Now Stay Till Nov 2027

Whenever tenures of army chiefs were extended in the recent past, prime ministers were subsequently eased out of office by the same army chief, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at......

What Links Trump With This President?

Like Grover Cleveland, Donald Trump won election as president, lost the next election and won a third election to the US presidency. IMAGE: Grover Cleveland, America's 22nd and 24th president.......

Voting For Trump Will Only Hurt America

'To everyone voting for Trump, I have only this simple question: Would you let him have lunch with your daughter or sister or wife or mother?''Then why would you let him have our lunch (and so much......

Why Microsoft CEO Nadella was drenched with ice water

Microsoft's India-born CEO Satya Nadella was drenched with a bucket of ice water as part of a challenge he took to raise awareness about a neurodegenerative disease and in turn challenged......

US CEOs pan fiscal cliff deal, vow to continue debt fight

US executives largely panned the congressional deal to steer America away from the "fiscal cliff," saying Washington wasted an opportunity to address the nation's long-term debt, but said they......

Ex-CTO of US may run for governorship

It is widely believed that Aneesh Chopra, who resigned last week as the first White House Chief Technology Officer, is mulling a run for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, and is likely to make an......

What can India do for the US?

It's a question a lot of people around the world are going to ask this winter, says Sanjaya Baru. Intervening in the debate on the motion of confidence in the Lok Sabha on July 22, 2008, Congress......

How I Won the War gets new life

Viewers back in the late 1960s might have had some reasons not to appreciate the brilliant farce How I Won the War. Though it was released at the time of the phenomenal success of the Beatles, it......

When Mammootty became a suspect in New York

Though the special check at New York's John Fitzgerald Kennedy airport was a clear case of racial profiling, award-winning Malayalam superstar Mammootty does not take it personally. Mammootty had......