Many were hoping that with Vajpayee's NDA gone, there would be a return to the Congress normal.Nobody was prepared for the opposite.Sonia Gandhi was sceptical.This became the only issue over which......
India should encourage the second coming of SAARC with climate change as an urgent agenda and keeping Indian security concerns in mind as the subtext, suggest Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd)......
In days of smart, networked technology and no shame over collateral damage, what will blow up next -- cars, mobile phones, TV sets, refrigerators? And where?, asks Shyam G Menon. IMAGE: Smoke......
New Delhi has reached out to Moscow while waiting for a new president in Washington. New Delhi knows well that in international relations, there are no permanent friends or foes, only permanent......
A step away from nuclear weapons being used in conflicts, warns Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). Kindly note the images have only been published for representational purposes. All photographs: Kind......
With the Bharatiya Janata Party in power at the Centre with majority seats, gold trade between China-India is likely to see friendly policy. The geopolitical risk premium and macroeconomic factors......
IMAGE: The Russian Olympic Committee headquarters in Moscow. Photograph: Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he supported Russians competing at the 2024 Paris......
'It's symbolic that the artist has left us as many of us are remembering the 1980 Olympics.' IMAGE: The Olympic mascot Bear Misha is seen during the closing ceremony of the 1980 Summer Olympic......
'It is no accident that politicians strive to control sports bodies, and get their names associated with popular sports, sometimes by renaming stadiums after themselves,' observes Devangshu Datta.......
'There was no cricket here until 12 years ago and now we’re at a cricket World Cup – it's a fairytale' 'A player had to go to the funeral of his cousin, who was shot dead by a drone'......
Sri Lanka crushed Afghanistan by 68 runs to win the gold medal in the men's Twenty20 cricket event at the Asian Games on Friday. Unlike the previous day, when Sri Lanka won a coin toss to get into......