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Protestors burn US flag, raise Palestine's as Netanyahu addresses US Congress

Pro-Palestinian protestors on Wednesday lowered an American flag and burned it down a few blocks away from the US Congress and hoisted a Palestine flag in its place. IMAGE: Pro-Palestinian......

Pakistan expels Iran's envoy after airstrike, recalls man in Teheran

Pakistan on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Iran and suspended all high-level planned bilateral visits in the coming days, hours after Tehran launched an unprecedented missile and drone......

Changing Horizons Of The Middle East

With developments like the Russia-China alliance and the rise of China in the Middle East, India's role has diminished though the India-Israel-US-UAE grouping may assume some importance in the......

IAF scrambles Sukhoi jets as Iranian plane gets bomb scare on Indian airspace

The Indian Air Force on Monday said it scrambled its fighter jets following a bomb scare on a China-bound Iranian civilian plane that was flying over the Indian airspace. IMAGE: Su-30MKI jets.......

China to host third FMs' meet on Afghanistan on March 30, India kept out

China will host the third meeting of the foreign ministers of Afghanistan's neighbouring countries on March 30-31, as Beijing along with its all-weather ally Pakistan seeks to firm up their......

India has stopped buying Iran oil, confirms envoy to US

India has stopped importing oil from Iran after American waivers granted to eight buyers expired early this month, New Delhi's envoy here has said, becoming the latest country to comply with the US......

Cutback in oil output, rise in crude prices could impact India

Given that India gets a huge part of its oil supplies from Iran through government-owned oil PSUs, any unwelcome shocks in global crude rates could be absorbed well enough, reports Aveek......

Air India's weird business strategy

It has staff even in places it has no touchdown, notes Sharmistha Mukherjee Despite burgeoning losses in 2013-14, Air India continues to maintain international offices, with a fifth of these at......

If India can't build Chabahar, China will

The Modi government’s appalling inefficiency and lack of purpose stand exposed, says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. My archives on India-Iran relations include a clipping from DNA newspaper......

Why Iran's infra push is good news for India

Two projects in Iran, which India is to execute involving major financial commitments on its part, are of particular significance for Indian steel. To the advantage of Indian steel and mineral......

Review: The Salesman inspires awe!

Sukanya Verma gives her reasons for watching The Salesman. Asghar Farhadi’s gift to anticipate danger in ordinary scenes and pick on unspoken torment around a narrative stoked by ambiguity......

What August 15 means to these stars

As Independence Day approaches, we asked a few Bollywood stars what they thought about India's Big Day. Here's what they said: We begin with Kalki Koechlin,......

Bollywood's on-screen artists

While many a Bollywood character writes poetry, surprisingly few have weilded a paintbrush. We hear Deepika Padukone plays an artist in Imtiaz Ali's latest film, Love Aaj Kal, and decided to take......

Review: Ben Affleck's Argo is a masterpiece

Argo tells a staggeringly peculiar story, and tells it with violent tension and extreme cleverness, writes Raja Sen.God bless grown men who make swooshy laser sounds with their mouths. Wonderment......

They won Olympic medals for India... well, almost!

India has just 20 medals to show from the Olympics in 112 years. There were some athletes who came close to winning that elusive medal, but missed out in the final analysis. Bikash Mohapatra......

India hold Oman in AFC U-19 tourney

India rallied to hold Oman to a 1-1 draw in a Group B encounter of the AFC under-19 qualifiers in Teheran, Iran, on Wednesday. Hussain Al Hadri opened the scoring for Oman in the 39th minute and......

'English football susceptible to match rigging'

Illegal Asian betting syndicates are swooping down on English football and the Premiership and other English leagues could be susceptible to match rigging, the bane of football the world over, a......

Indians start on winning note

India started their campaign at the Asian Youth Chess Championships in Teheran on a positive note with most of their players pocketing a victory in the first round.Y. Sandeep, B. Adhiban, S. Nitin......

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