BSF shoots down drone with 3 kg heroin near Pakistan border in Punjab

The Border Security Force shot down an intruding drone near the India-Pakistan border on Saturday. IMAGE: The BSF personnel with the heroine packets after shooting down a drone near Indo-Pak......

NDA Better For Economy Than INDIA In 2024

What is most troubling is that not a single party that is part of INDIA has talked about any kind of reform and economic sense, argues R Jagannathan. IMAGE: INDIA leaders address a journalists at......

Is Our Constitution Out Of Date?

There is an acute imbalance of power between the various organs of the State, including the executive, the legislature, the judiciary, and the ultimate sovereign -- the people, argues R......

HC rejects Tarun Tejpal's plea for in-camera hearing

The Bombay high court in Panaji on Wednesday rejected journalist Tarun Tejpal's application seeking an in-camera hearing of the proceedings challenging his acquittal in a 2013 rape case. The......

Shrinking screens: Is cable TV dying in India?

For years it has been evident that fibre and DTH would give tough competition to cable in India where regulatory overload has mutilated an already warped industry structure. OTT added fuel to the......

Bangladesh may overtake India this year

Bangladesh might overtake India this year by per capita income in nominal dollars, but it is not yet close to becoming South Asia's economic powerhouse anytime soon, T N Ninan points out. IMAGE:......

Future looks bleak for Rana Kapoor-funded firms

The collection of mostly small and medium sized businesses is a hotchpotch of ventures and include design schools, schools, villas for hire in Goa and a country club in Gurgaon. Even as jailed YES......

RBI's Shaktikanta Das is Asia Pacific central banker of the year

Nominating Das, the Banker magazine, which announced the award, said India’s banks have faced a series of challenges, from non-performing loans to issues around fraud. Faced with these......

Soccer Extras: Ronaldo rape lawsuit dropped; Infantino re-elected FIFA chief

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo had strongly denied the accusations. Photograph: Massimo Pinca/Reuters The rape lawsuit against......

The Muhammad Ali tribute you MUST read!

'Every Ali obituary I read made the point that he 'transcended his sport' -- a reference to the many battles he fought with America even as he fought in America.''What the obituaries leave out is......

Blatter's ship finally runs aground

- History is not likely to be so kind to the 79-year-old Swiss, who only recently compared himself to a mountain goat that keeps "going and going and going and cannot be stopped." Instead, his name......

FIFA's Blatter, Valcke hire top US lawyers for corruption probe

FIFA president Sepp Blatter and its secretary general Jerome Valcke have both hired high-powered US lawyers to represent them as a corruption probe roils soccer's global governing body.Blatter......

Platini accuses Blatter of attacking European soccer

Michel Platini has accused FIFA president Sepp Blatter of attacking European soccer while defending UEFA's decision to stage Euro 2020 across the continent and its right to question FIFA's reform......