The 'surprise visit' by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Pakistan on Nawaz Sharif's birthday was hailed as a diplomatic triumph everywhere....
The year end image etched on my mind is not of the US-Russian chess games in Syria but of how I saw the crisis being manufactured in that blighted land. Let me take advantage of the New Year and revisit stories to give you a perspective....
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that Vedas are a source of India's heritage, culture and constitute the foundation of our value system....
Notwithstanding a sharp cut in the government's growth forecast at the fag end, 2015 will go down as the year when India emerged as the fastest-growing large economy, despite setbacks such as 12 months of negative export growth, another bad monsoon and roadblocks to the far-reaching goods and services tax regime. ...
The influential Indian-American community packed more heft in 2015 as America wooed "India's reformer-in-chief" Narendra Modi, as President Barack Obama called his "good friend" amid another love fest with the Indian diaspora....
A "budding bromance" between India and the US or "Modbama" as Foreign Policy called it, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama, took their ties to a new high in the year gone by....
On his 91st birth anniversary on December 25, it is necessary to remember that Vajapyee single-handedly extricated the party from its potentially doomed predilection with majoritarianism, which is in sync with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) concept of a Hindu rashtra, where the minorities will be second ...
Ban this, ban that; censor this, censor that; protest over this, and that -- the cinematic, art and creative worlds went through much unrest in 2015, with political and moralistic interventions. So much so that one began to wonder if politics is hampering people's freedom to express. It is, assert prominent personalities of th...
The year just ending would go as one of reaffirmation by the supreme court of its primacy in judicial appointments that was sought to be taken away by the government scrapping the collegium system - in place since 1993 - and replacing it with a National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)....
Legendary Bollywood singer Mohammed Rafi's biography by Sujata Dev was launched here on Thursday on the occasion of his 91st birth anniversary....
