China or Pakistan? Who should Modi make peace with?

India must break out of this strategic triangulation between China and Pakistan.We need to settle our issues with one of the two, notes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Lieutenant General Yogesh Kumar Joshi,......

A Congress government headed for doom

Failure to deliver on governance, corruption allegations, preoccupation with Lok Sabha and gram panchayat polls and factionalism have weakened Siddaramaiah's government in Karnataka. This may well......

This freedom fighter's struggle for his right is now a movie

It took Gour Hari Das three decades to wrangle out a certificate recognising his work as a freedom fighter. His struggle is now the subject of a filmIn the dead of night during the mid-1940s, Gour......

Made-in-India chopper crashes at Ecuador parade

In a major setback to India's efforts to market its indigenous helicopters in the overseas market, a Dhruv helicopter sold to the Ecuadorian Air Force on Wednesday crashed in Quito during a......

Can Indian elephant take on Chinese dragon? 'Not in the next 20 years'

'If India and China come together, 40 per cent of the world's people are going to be prosperous' Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are two dynamic leaders at the......

Senior family members step down from The Hindu

K Balaji, managing director of Kasturi and Sons Ltd that publishes The Hindu newspaper, and five other senior members of the Kasturi family will step down from their respective positions in the......

Pan-IIT meet: All about inspiration

The IIT Alumni 2008 Global Conference is being held at IIT Madras, from December 19 to 21. The event is expected to get 3,000 alumni participants from around the globe and a galaxy of eminent......

TCS strengthens patent portfolio

Tata Consultancy Services, the $4.3 billion information technologycompany, which has filed nearly 200 patent applications over the last five years, continues to strengthen its intellectual......

Radhika Pandit teams up with Ajay Rao for Breaking News

Ajay Rao and Radhika Pandit are 'breaking news' now. Don't let your imagination go wild -- all we are talking about is their next film together called Breaking News. The actors, who had starred in......

Top seeds have it easy at All India Open Chess

Barring two surprises when higher seeds K Visweswaran and C J Aravind were held by lower rated Uttam Sharma and Hari Babu respectively, the second round of the Dr Mahalingam Sathabishekam FIDE......