When Vajpayee visited a nightclub in the US

In his first trip to the US in 1960, Atal Bihari Vajpayee befriended a young IFS officer posted in the permanent mission of India to the UN and explored New York with him, visiting museums, art......

Full text: President Murmu's address to Parliament's Budget Session

‘Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the......

It's Raining Billions For Gujarat!

It's boom time for election-bound Gujarat as Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi's government has been announcing project after project before the dates for the assembly election are announced......

Work on Ayodhya Ram temple on schedule, darshan by Dec 2023, says official

Work on building a pilgrimage facilitation centre and other utilities in Ayodhya's Ram temple complex has started, with 'darshan' of Ram Lalla expected to open in December 2023, according to a......

US-China trade war: What India must do

'If we play our cards right, we may even benefit from the competition between the US and China as seen from increased investment from each of these countries into India.''The size of our market......

Ashwani Lohani to take charge as AI chief for second time

It was during his tenure that Air India made its first operating profit of Rs 105 crore in FY17 since the merger of Indian Airlines and Air India in 2007. The government on Wednesday called back......

Sustainable Development index: China 76; India 110

IMAGE: A man carries his mother to board a passenger train at a railway station in New Delhi, February 25, 2016. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters Sweden tops the chart and is followed by......

Vintage hotels in 'Palace on Wheels' coaches soon!

Currently, the National Rail Museum houses seven of the original nine 'Palace on Wheels' coaches that remind one of the luxury in which the Maharajas of the yore travelled. Railway buffs may soon......

Rani Mukerji, Pamela Chopra unveil Yash Chopra's statue

The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities: Late filmmaker Yash Chopra has been honoured with a bronze statue at the heart of Interlaken, Switzerland. His wife Pamela......

When supermodels rocked!

So there's a worldwide recession? Apparently, America's uber-elite glitterati crowd hasn't noticed yet. On Monday night, in New York City, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume......

'I was in the best team that never played for India'

Michael Dalvi, who played first class cricket for Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Bengal, once hit a century against a fiery Malcolm Marshall and the West Indies.At 77, he has a razor sharp memory, a ready......

Milkha Singh on the Race of his Life

'Somehow the Flying Sikh has endured in people's memory.' IMAGE: The Legendary Milkha Singh, who passed into the ages on June 18, 2021. Photograph: PTI Photo This feature was first published on......

Euro 2016: French floods, strikes cast pall over tournament

IMAGE: French riot policemen attend a drill at the Marseille railway station, France, May 4, 2016, in preparation of security measures for the UEFA 2016 European Championship. Photograph......

Spotted: Andrew Flintoff at Manchester

Reader Vineeth sent us this picture from Manchester. 'In the pic, it is myself, Sathya and Shyam (left to right) with Andrew Flintoff. We asked for a picture and he said 'jaldi jaldi (in Hindi)'......