I am proud to say that I am one of the closest friends of President A P J Abdul Kalam. We talk over the telephone almost every day. We meet often. I go toRashtrapati Bhavan and meet him there. We......
Fali Nariman, widely recognised as India's finest Constitutional lawyer, once said: 'When V R Krishna Iyer speaks, the nation listens.' Justice V R Krishna Iyer is now 91 years old. Even though he......
The government's proposal to introduce a new reservation scheme for the Other Backward Classes, OBCs, in elite educational institutions has been a heated issue of debate in recent months. Medical......
The recent arrest of a suspected Laskhar-e-Tayiba operative from Nalgonda in connection with the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore holds a lesson for the country:......
The recent arrest of a suspected Laskhar-e-Tayiba operative from Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh, in connection with the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore holds a lesson for......
The modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports has finally taken off, but not amid major drama and protest. Hyderabad-based GMR, in association with Frankfurt-based Fraport AG, has won the bids for......
The sprawling campus of Indian School of Business at Gachibowli on the outskirts of Hyderabad is a much sought after destination these days.Within three years of being set up, ISB has emerged as......
India's Planning Commission has been in the eye of a storm after its Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia dismantled the various consultative committees when the Communists opposed the......
The Left parties have made no bones about their intention to call the shots in the new government that will take office in New Delhi. The second largest coalition partner after the Congress in the......
The possibility of a Left-supported Congress government has made the stock markets nervous. On May 17, the Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex crashed by787 points -- its biggest crash in a day ever.......
P T Usha, India's best-known woman athlete,is busy with the Usha School of Athletics, which she started a yearago at Koyilandy in Kerala's Kozhikode district. It has been a tough job for Usha to......