A local Bharatiya Janata Party leader was today shot dead by two unidentified assailants while he was out for a morning walk, sparking protest by party workers.
In a deteriorating neighbourhood, only Bangladesh offers a ray of hope, writes Brigadier (retd) S K Chatterji.
Indian boxing got the first glimpse of Dingko's talent at the 1989 sub-junior nationals in Ambala where he became a champion as a 10-year-old.
A full-fledged civil war in Nepal that results in a Maoist take over would be immensely detrimental to India's national security interests. Even though such a prospect is improbable at present, the present situation in Nepal does not generate any confidence in the international community about the Nepalese political leaders' ability to ride the storm and steer their country's transformation to a representative multi-party democracy successfully.
Buoyed by its success in stalling Parliament over the 2G spectrum scam and the recent victory in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday said the United Progressive Alliance government is unlikely to complete its full term and maintained that there was a need to expand the National Democratic Alliance to take on the Congress in the next elections.
'The Indian economy is at a crossroads,' says Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, a University Professor at Columbia University and senior adviser to the Institute.
Time is running out fast for the Mumbai right-hander with India having just 17 ODI matches before the 2019 World Cup in England next year.
Noting that Pakistan remains the geographic crossroads for terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, the report said that the "increasingly bold attacks on well guarded military, police and UN targets indicate that the Taliban, Al Qaeda and other militant groups within Pakistan are a growing threat.The current trends, if left unchecked, will increase the odds that Al Qaeda will successfully develop and use a biological weapon or a nuclear device against the United States.
Telugu star Rajasekhar had passed some comments over the Superstar, and fans demanded an apology.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made a fresh appeal to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party to attend the all party meet on Monday to discuss the present situation in the Kashmir valley.
The payments industry is at a crossroads with the banking regulator on two pressing issues, neither of which seems headed towards an amicable solution. Depending upon which side accommodates the other, customers in India will have to choose between convenience and ironclad safety. In the end, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which regulates both banks and all payments services providers, will prevail. But the question is: will it do so by bending a little or by sticking to its firm stand? The two issues - one concerning payment facilitators storing customers' card details and the other about auto-renewal of payments - appear similar but aren't.
The rate of road accidents in India is so high that the chances of getting run over by a motor vehicle are higher than those of winning a bet at the club.
'Both have a very nationalistic view of foreign policy.' 'They think they are shrewd and clever diplomats.'
The 11.66-km-long P V Narasimha Rao Elevated Expressway Corridor is the country's longest flyover. It starts from SD Eye Hospital at Mehdipatnam (a major suburb in Hyderabad) to Aram Ghar Crossroads at Shivrampally, has been constructed at a cost of Rs 493 crore (Rs 4.93 billion).
After the defeat to the West Indies, India's captain M S Dhoni is looking to draw inspiration from the last T20 World Cup in South Africa, where they were in a similar situation but went on to win every game thereafter en route to the title.
He told the state party conference that West Bengal now stood at the crossroads and there was no prior model for industrialisation available to it.
Observing that the world is at a crossroads now as it faces the greatest economic crisis in 60 years, the IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said at a news conference that the G-20 leaders have the opportunity to spur a recovery next year if they take the right action.
'This is not without risk because extraordinary steps taken in exceptional times have the habit of becoming habits until the next crisis intervenes,' warns T N Ninan.
The farm loan waiver announced in the Union Budget is like a key crossroads from which major roads go out in different directions, each signifying opposite journeys and consequences. It is the biggest event of its kind, the fiscal payout of Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion) being virtually three times larger than the Rs 20,800 crore (Rs 208 billion) recapitalisation process that set Indian public sector banking on its feet.
VVS Laxman as Test captain and Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the one-day captain seems to be the most logical way forward.
The Congress's clumsy political handling of the nuclear deal has laid bare before the world a nation that is desperately trying to search for a foreign policy.
'Although Narendra Modi had no direct participation in the Ayodhya agitation, he would not have been in the dominant position he is now had it not been for the Ram Janambhoomi agitation.'
Prince Harry has been knighted by his grandmother, the Queen, for his "services to the sovereign".
Chaudhry said Jinnah's vision was to see Pakistan prosper as a democratic state embodying principles like the rule of law, freedom of speech, equality, tolerance, and protection of human rights and civil liberties.
The government and the farmers must come back to the negotiating table with only the interest of the country in mind, suggests Vivek Gumaste.
Those who know the depths of the mindless lethargy that the Bihar bureaucracy had sunk into until two years ago, understand the importance of the unquantifiable but invaluable revival.
The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, invites industry delegates, entrepreneurs, professionals and management students to attend the Annual Operations Seminar, OPUS 2005, where operations wizards will share their learning.
Delhi's heat and humidity and the uneven bounce of the grass surface could play a major part in the Asia-Oceania Davis Cup match against Japan.
'Whatever the BJP tries to do, they will not be able to make a big mark in Kerala.'
Dressing 80s pinup icon Brooke Shields and all the other hotness from Sachin & Babi's New York show.
Cautioning that West Asia today stood at a crossroads, India Monday said largescale extra regional military presence and rising constituency of radical religious groups in the region was a matter of grave concern.
"Maharashtra has got nothing to do with Kashmir? Soldiers from Buldhana sacrificed their lives for the protection of Kashmir. Opposition doesn't feel national issues are important," he said.
Joan MacDonald began her fitness journey three years ago and has already lost 22 kg.
'India should not be taken by surprise if the Biden administration seeks China's cooperation at some point,' alerts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The World Economic Forum is preparing for the biggest annual event in its calendar, and Corporate India Inc plans to build on its India Everywhere campaign.
'During my nearly three decades of military service, both in war and peace, I have usefully drawn upon Gandhiji's storehouse of wisdom.' 'When military intelligence jobs require tightrope walking on the edge of moral and ethical dilemmas, I have looked up to Gandhiji,' notes Colonel R Hariharan (retd).
The humans are in trouble. They've been attacked by a Virus. What happens to the animals who depend on them? The Crows? The Dogs? And The Cats? Nitin Sathe's short story set in the times of the coronavirus.
This is a moment when the leaders at the Centre and states must show true leadership for the sake of the country. And it is the top political leaders, not attorney generals or bureaucrats, who should be sitting together and settling this thorny issue of compensation, says Arvind Subramanian, former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.
