Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ordered Iran to strike Israel directly, in retaliation for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, New York Times reported, citing......
Agitating junior doctors on Thursday submitted to chief secretary Manoj Pant a draft of the key points of their meeting with the West Bengal government last night and were awaiting the state's......
Senior analyst B Raman calls the post-Mubarak situation in Egypt an uncertain transition. Some have termed the departure of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from office on Friday as a......
Although the credit for acquiring the technological skill must be given to India's outstanding nuclear scientists, the decision to go nuclear was a political one that entailed clarity of vision,......
The world needs to wake up to this new dimension of war at sea and be prepared to face the 'unknown enemy' who have the advantage of attacking at their choice of location and time, cautions......
Standard & Poor's has downgraded its sovereign credit rating of Egypt, citing weak political and economic conditions, especially after violent clashes earlier this month.The rating of Egypt has......
Gold prices hit record high in the third week of March as fears of bank collapses and high inflation led investors to the traditional safe haven. Photograph: Leonhard Foeger/Reuters Gold prices......
Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters India will fall well short of its $9.5 billion privatisation target this year, despite a big stock market rally that has......
Political heavyweights may be still recovering from the tectonic changes brought about by the Delimitation Commission headed by Justice Kuldip Singh after about six years' labour, but to those who......
Now that the Bombay High Court has rejected the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas' (MoPNG) attempts to help Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) wriggle out of its 2005 contract to......
FIFA has requested a full report from Egyptian authorities into the violence at a soccer match in Port Said that left 74 people dead, world soccer's governing body said on Thursday. - PHOTOS: Egypt......
It is a tribute to a system so robustly meritocratic that this team represents India's diversity better than any other institution: The Union Cabinet, our chief ministers, the civil services, the......
'This person (Srinivasan) was held guilty by this court for conflict of interest and abuse of authority. He cannot go.' The Supreme Court on Monday said former BCCI president Narayanswami......
'Insignias or not, Dhoni's will remain the deadliest pair of gloves behind the stumps,' notes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: The regimental dagger insignia of the para forces visible on Mahendra Singh......
‘When the Board needed Manohar as President (locked in a legal battle in Supreme Court), he left the Board in middle of things’ ‘It is like captain of ship leaving a sinking ship......