As diplomatic provocation goes, the Dalai Lama's just-concluded visit to Arunachal Pradesh was quite like the six previous ones, the last one being in 2009. Yet, Beijing has chosen to respond to this visit with an outrage that feels discernibly sharper than in the past. Perhaps what has accentuated the Chinese anger was an accompaniment in the for...
Should an Indian citizen pay fines for traveling using his/her Indian passport? When a parent or parents got US citizenship, and the minor child is in India, will he/she lose the Indian citizenship automatically?...
In 2011, the total Chinese investment in India was $102 million. Last year, a record $1 billion of Chinese FDI reportedly flowed in, but official Indian and Chinese statistics differ on cumulative figures. The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) last year estimated that total FDI from China between April...
There is nothing glamorous about breast cancer, not when one spots a lump or abnormal skin on or around the breast, and definitely not when one reads about the seemingly invincible Hollywood powerhouse Angelina Jolie undergoing double mastectomy. But remarkably in some patients, breast cancer spurs positivity....
However, a little too fond of gambling, he lost a fortune and therefore had to do many forgettable movies to earn for his family - hence his uncredited cameo as an Indian Brigadier in the super-flop "Inchon" (1981)....
Soccer's global apex body FIFA says it has "two different contingency plans" in mind in case Kochi fails to meet the May 15 deadline to rev up renovation work for the U-17 World Cup, taking place in India for the first time. A Kerala minister is confident of the deadline being met. ...
It's the "holey" season in the American capital. The President wants to plug the constant leaks. The mayor has kicked off the annual "Pothole Palooza" to fill up thousands of pockmarks dotting the streets of Washington....
Almost precisely 20 years to the day since the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) came into force, the United States has launched a military strike against Syria for using them against its own civilian population....
Sonia Gandhi was the de facto Prime Minster for a decade and in doing so diminished the role of the incumbent, Manmohan Singh, and ruled the country without accountability, in the process, overturning the reforms initiated by P.V. Narasimha Rao in the early 1990s, says Tavleen Singh, a well-known political columnist....
On April 3, 2017, Arjun Bharadwaj, a 24-year-old management student, committed suicide by jumping out of a 19th-floor hotel room in Mumbai. Media reporting suggested he had been depressed about failure in exams and repeatedly talked about ending his life on social media. There were also suggestions he was battling drug addiction....
