'Positive progress' made to resolve border row: China

China and India have made 'positive progress' to resolve the border standoff, with both sides maintaining close communication through diplomatic and military channels, a senior foreign ministry......

China reacts to Modi's comments on border dispute

China on Thursday said that "sound and stable ties" serve the common interests of China and India as it reacted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that for New Delhi, ties with Beijing are......

Bilateral engagement can restore peace at India-China border: Modi

Asserting that stable and peaceful relations between India and China are important for the entire region and the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed hope that through positive and......

When An Old Friend Passes Away...

There will be work today, there will be work tomorrow, there will be work the day after, but nothing will make up for the eternal regret of not seeing a friend when he was dying. IMAGE: Mukkund......

Vinod Khosla sole Indian in Vanity Fair

Annual power lists are about as ubiquitous as the magazines-- Forbes, the Economist, Time, Newsweek, and so on and on -- that indulge in the exercise, and just as idiosyncratic. Yet, being listed......

WSJ managing editor to resign

Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Marcus Brauchli, is expected resign after less than a year in the post, a media report said on Tuesday. The resignation could come on Tuesday, the New......

How will the Indian markets fare in 2019?

The upcoming general elections will be the focus and the economy and market performance will pivot around that event. The general consensus is that the India stock market should be up around 10 per......

2 things Jaitley can do to better the lives of common Indians

There is a total disconnect between the vast majority of Indians and their elected rulers and their minions in the executive and judiciary, says Sudip Mazumdar. Image: A grocery shop in a slum in......

Shah Rukh to receive highest Yale honour

Bollywood actor and producer Shah Rukh Khan will join the likes of former Presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carterwhen hedelivers a lecture at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow on......

Why M Night Shyamalan thinks his movies are doomed

M Night Shyamalan was 29 when his third film The Sixth Sense (1999) opened to a tremendous response. The box office success of the film -- it earned $662 million worldwide -- propelled the young......

Fast Five: Huge hit already!

So potent was the Fast Five explosion at the box office over the weekend that its $83 million estimated gross across North America was more than the combined gross of the next 99 films on the box......

Will Ice Age 3 melt negative criticism?

Following relentless attacks on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen last week, the critics have turned their guns on another sequel, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Now it is to be seen whether the......

China's badminton player Zhang, 17, dies on court

IMAGE: 17-year-old Chinese player Zhang Zhijie was competing at the Asian Junior Championship in Yogyakarta when he collapsed on court. Photograph: Badminton World Federation/Instagram Indonesia's......

On this Day: Birth of a chess legend; India lift Asia Cup

  IMAGE: Garry Kasparov during the World Chess Championships against Vladimir Kramnik at the Riverside Studios, London, in October-November 2000. Photograph: Andrew Redington/ALLSPORT/Getty......