'The UPA was the gang that couldn't shoot straight. The NDA is the gang that can't stop shooting. They (the Modi government) are shooting at anybody, everybody, all directions, shooting themselves in the foot.'
'More and more young chefs, instead of inventing new things, are exploring more deeply inside India,' Indian Accent's Manish Mehrotra tells Rahul Jacob.
City are looking to retain the title they won in record-breaking fashion last year and secure their fourth Premier League crown in eight years.
Could the Centre and the prime minister have achieved more than what they did on curbing the endemic spread through more of the Modi outreach, given his credibility and unchallenged ability to communicate with the masses, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
Over 3,000 people showed up at Coney Island for the Mermaid Parade.
Students' flagging interest in the written word is because of a generational digital divide, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
The Queen, 89, will take over the title from her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria who, according to Buckingham Palace, reigned for exactly 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes. To celebrate her 63-year-long reign, here are some interesting facts about her.
Modi also invited suggestions from the people for inclusion in his Independence Day speech.
China chose a sports contest to announce the change of the name of Taiwan, a self-governed cash-rich island.
'There is economic danger: Not inflation, but a slowdown that feeds an employment crisis,' says T N Ninan.
The richest self-made woman in America is Diane Hendricks, the owner of ABC Supply.
'Indian creative and digital agencies seem to be completely missing the mark,' says advertising and media veteran Sandeep Goyal.
The rate of immunisation is low mainly because of rumours that the vaccines would have a sterilising effect on the children.
'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,' points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
On April 2, World Autism Day, Ajit Narayanan explains how Avaz has transformed the lives of many autistic children across the world.
The future arrived late but after some old-fashioned glitches, two Russian trailblazers fired the first shots in what could be a revolution in tennis at the Next Gen ATP Finals on Tuesday.
Can business schools re-invent their role, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Fraudsters duplicate SIM cards to hack into bank accounts.
Anita Aikara gives you 10 Indian words the West grabbed from us.
When faced with problems, this IAS officer came up with innovative solutions.
Indian companies need not just make in India, but invent in India too
'You cannot drop to the ground, however many bullets hit you.' 'Because if you are weak, this is not the place for you.'
Here are 15 things that would have made 2015 a great year.
As Venezuelans continue to flee the starvation, crime and the horrific inflation that continues to mark the worst crisis it has ever faced, Radha Biswas looks back at a devastated country she continues to love deeply.
'Dev for me embodied all that kind of charm, optimism, energy, vulnerability, awkwardness and yet strength.' 'He's in every scene for two hours.' 'He has to play drama, melodrama, romance, pathos, comedy.' 'It was a relief when he said yes.'
'India serves itself poorly with its latter-day discovery of Pakistan as an instrument in domestic politics,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
An illuminating excerpt from T C A Raghavan's History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh And Their Quest For India's Past.
'99 per cent of Indians who go to the US for their advanced studies they stay back there, which is a huge loss for India.
"A significant decline in the growth number for this quarter is highly likely, but for the fiscal year as a whole the decline may still be relatively moderate," Fitch Asia-Pacific Sovereigns Group Director Thomas Rookmaaker said.
After a decade-long wait, the IAF will transform 80 ageing Jaguar fighters into highly capable, multi-role, combat aircraft.
From Arvind Kejriwal to Priyanka, this has been a media-determined election. Two forces stand poised, the people inventing new politics and the media inventing its own version of that politics, says Shiv Visvanathan.
'Power is always transitory, and you should be the same person whether you have it or not,' the head of the number one law firm in India tells Pavan Lall.
Germany's Mario Gomez scored in the first half to secure a 1-0 win over a stubborn Northern Ireland side and a place in the last 16 of Euro 2016 as Group C winners on Tuesday.
'The Indian economy has been subsidised by the poor.'
Indians thrive in ordinariness -- from academia and science to business and military power. Sports is just an apt metaphor, says Shekhar Gupta.
'Trump's anti-trade, anti-immigrant rhetoric reminds me of Chinese history,' says A V Rajawade.
The director A V Sasidharan depended too much on lead actor Fahadh Faasil's popularity and forgets everything else.
On its 25th anniversary, Sukanya Verma lists 10 things she still loves about Mohra.
Images from the football matches played across Europe on Sunday
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