Shehbaz Sharif set to become next Pakistan PM

Shehbaz Sharif, the younger brother of former premier Nawaz Sharif, is expected to become Pakistan's next prime minister as a post-poll alliance of leading political parties led by them struck a......

Lanka parties to meet again after talks on Tamil rights ends in discord

The all-party meeting aimed at reconciliation and conferring full powers to Sri Lanka's provincial councils will be reconvened in a month after initial deliberations on Wednesday failed to yield......

Pak Army Chief Is In No Mood To Forgive Imran Khan

The military establishment is in no mood to forgive or forget Imran's anti-military utterances, observes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RA&W, India's external intelligence agency.......

Why Mulayam Singh is like Narendra Modi

While Modi had a party and an organisation that supported him, all Mulayam, a self-made man with no inheritance in politics, had was a set of (fairly flexible) beliefs, recalls Aditi Phadnis.......

Why China is ahead of India

It is the flavour of our times to compare India with China virtually on everything. Surely, it carries a romantic exaggeration of ourselves; a sense of having arrived at the international scene.......

Tata blasts politicians for India's woes

Economic reforms in India are being hampered by interventions from business pressure groups and politicians, including Left parties who support the ruling United Progressive Alliance government at......

FDI and the cost of trading

India and China are whispering sweet nothings into each other's ears. Indian firms are investing in China, and vice versa, too.The trend is likely to grow. Over the next decade or so, China and......

Chinese firms put out their wares at tech fair

Midea, Haier, Jialing, Kinlong... these are just some of the Chinese brands on display at the International Engineering and Technology Fair 2003 that may soon become household names in India.China......

Afghan cricket: Swapping Kalashnikovs for cricket bats

Unlike football, which offends the sensibilities of some very conservative Muslims because it is normally played in shorts, cricket is played in long sleeves and trousers, in line with traditional......

Face-off: Jayasuriya vs Ranatunga

His cricket career on the wane, former captain Sanath Jayasuriya has taken the political plunge and will have a face off against ex-teammate Arjuna Ranatunga during election campaigns for their......