India unprepared and unwilling to defend democracy

With the American declaration of an exit from Afghanistan, Beijing and Islamabad are upbeat. This leaves India in the lurch as it is ill prepared to face the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists......

Take the war to the enemy

New Delhi continues to fumble while India burns. Pakistan's superior psychological warfare machinery further tied down the already overstretched Indian security forces in knots. Airports and......

The obvious battlefield is Pakistan

The British nearly gave up war in Afghanistan recently and instead wanted dialogue with Al Qaeda. Washington termed it defeatist and subsequently London rescinded the suggestion. The stalemate in......

Ex-BPCL chief Arun Kumar Singh to head ONGC

Arun Kumar Singh, former chairman of oil refining and marketing company BPCL, was on Wednesday appointed chairman and managing director of ONGC -- the first instance of a retired person being......

8 bn rubles of Indian oil firms stuck in Russia

As much as 8 billion rubles (about Rs 1,000 crore) of dividend income belonging to Indian oil firms is stuck in Russia after the Putin administration clamped down on dollar repatriation, officials......

India Inc braces for fallout of Russia-Ukraine crisis

Stocks of Indian companies with exposure to Europe fell on Tuesday amid concerns about the impact on their sales in case the Russia-Ukraine crisis worsens and the US and its allies impose economic......

India seeks stake in Russian oil fields in oil quest

India on Tuesday pitched for a stake in vast oil and gas fields as well as LNG terminals in the frozen Arctic of Far East Russia as it looked to import more oil from the former Soviet republic as......