The media has given the PM and his government a far easier time than it probably deserves. Mihir S Sharma explains Among the many advantages that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has enjoyed during his......
United States President Barack Obama led world leaders on Monday in conveying that there was no turning back the clock in Libya and tyrant Muammar Gaddafi had no place in the future set-up of the......
Hammered by Muammar Gaddafi's tanks, heavy guns and rockets, rebel forces were in panicky retreat in east Libya on Wednesday, fleeing from the oil towns of Ras Lanuf and Brega prompting United......
The proposed nuclear plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra has come under a lot of flak by local residents and other sections of the public. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj......
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is known for his mercurial nature, recently lost his temper and branded a group of journalists as 'paedophiles' for quizzing him over a corruption scandal.......
It's a question a lot of people around the world are going to ask this winter, says Sanjaya Baru. Intervening in the debate on the motion of confidence in the Lok Sabha on July 22, 2008, Congress......
France and India have become partners in building a multipolar world, French President Nicholas Sarkozy's adviser tells Sanjaya Baru. A month before the Lehman Brothers' collapse moved the tectonic......
Meeting of minds is needed and possible between India and the US, says Sanjaya Baru. This photograph, of an imperious Michel Camdessus, former managing director of the IMF, standing hands folded......
India will seek continuance of the stimulus package that was devised to get the global economy out of the worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh on......
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost," said Henry David Thoreau, an outstanding American author, poet and philosopher of the 19th century. "That is where they should be,......
This is director Suparn Verma's fun new column for Rediff Movies. Warning! This column reflects the views of the writer and the writer only! He may or may not have been in his senses......
Priyanka Chopra has had three back-to-back hits -- Fashion, Dostana and Kaminey -- and she is obviously enjoying her time in the sun. Her next film, What's Your Raashee, sees her don 12......
When making a melodrama and in doubt, give your heroine a big false stomach. That seems to be the primary thought in Bollywood drama at least, the filmmakers milking pregnancy for sympathy as......
Sabbir Khan's claim to fame is his upcoming directorial venture Kambakkht Ishq, starring Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor. But Khan is not new to the film industry. His father was lyricist......
UEFA president Michel Platini is determined to stage the World Cup during the European winter for the first time at the 2022 tournament in Qatar, the Frenchman told the London Evening Standard.......
President Nicolas Sarkozy calledfor a wholesale review of French soccer following the national team's humiliation in the World Cup, and said no player should receive bonuses after their dire......