Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran, who was the original Indian interlocutor of the US-India civilian nuclear deal negotiations with erstwhile US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, is unapologetic about his recent remarks at the India Habitat Centre lecture series in New Delhi which left many foreign policy experts both in India and the US puzzled.
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The Budget 2009 has spared small businesses from a lot of administrative hassles. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has submitted that small businesses below the turnover of Rs 40 lakh (Rs 4 million) have the option of declaring income at 8 per cent of their turnover and pay taxes accordingly.
'At a time when the economy is depressed, a pandemic is raging, and the Chinese are making noises on the border, the NRC could be resuscitated.'
ZEE5 has launched a short film festival. Joginder Tuteja tells you what's on offer.
India would be desperate for the likes of Mahendra Singh Dhoni to find some form ahead of the semi-final when they take on Sri Lanka in their last preliminary World Cup clash, in Leeds, on Saturday.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has charged the United Nations with not taking effective measures to protect the life of Tamil civilians fleeing the rebel held areas and denied killing the innocent people.
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Arpi deserves to be complimented for the commitment and hard work that have gone into this production. The frustrations of seeking reliable documentation from the catacombs of the Indian bureaucracy did not deter him from going after the best information available, and the result is one that he can take much satisfaction in. Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla, Member Advisory Council, Vivekananda International Foundation, reviews Claude Arpi's The End of an Era: India Exits Tibet.
Madrassas in Pakistan distort history in unimaginable ways, says a cofidential IB report.
One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
It vowed to 'Keep America Rolling' after 9/11 terror attacks and also solved a puzzle about one of its Pontiac cars not liking vanilla ice cream, but it could not avoid bankruptcy, even with the help of the United States government.
'Potent nationalism doesn't just distract from the economic task at hand; it actively undermines it.'
Pritish Nandy's interview of Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly Of India was a stunner.
Rishabh Pant, on Thursday, earned a maiden call-up to the Indian ODI team, replacing Dinesh Karthik for the first two games against the West Indies.
Slowly but surely pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of the conspiracy behind Mumbai terror attacks are falling into place.
Where has the spider gone? That is the puzzling question that seems to be worrying scientists in the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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Adidas' profit after tax has grown to Rs 140 crore in 2017-18.
It is the time when 'King Kansa' virtually rules the town which transforms itself into a sprawling open air theatre.
Puzzled by the way banks levy differing 'floating interest rates' from new and existing customers, the fair trade practices body MRTPC has initiated a probe into how lending institutions arrive at these rates.Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission feels that the practice of banks using low interest rates to woo new customers while forcing the old ones to pay higher rates was discriminatory and restrictive under the MRTP Act.
Hitting back at the intellectuals who criticised the Bengal government on the Nandigram issue, senior Communist Party of India - Marxist leader Brinda Karat on Sunday said that she was puzzled by their silence when hundreds of villagers were not allowed entry for the past several months. The party politburo member said that they did not raise their voice when over 3,500 villagers were living in camps for about 11 months and denied entry to Nandigram.
With an unexpected new turn in Kashmir, an ominous Afghanistan, a reliably unpredictable Trump, and an unfathomable reversal with RCEP, Modi may have to reinvent his character, suggests Ambassador B S Prakash.
How does one make an impression without meeting the recruiter face to face?
In a touching gesture, a district collector drove his chauffeur to office in his government vehicle on the latter's retirement day.
Jinnah Creation's Seval, directed by Hari and starring Bharath is a potpourri of drama, romance and action which makes for watchable fare despite some melodramatic hiccups.
For many years, the Nathan family in suburban Washington, DC harboured a secret. Soon after the weekend visit to the Hindu temple, the family sneaked into McDonald's and feasted on burgers.
Arsene Wenger reckoned that leaving his leading marksman Alexis Sanchez on the substitutes' bench had been a "debatable" decision but it was one that appeared to backfire on the Arsenal manager in the 3-1 defeat at Liverpool on Saturday.
The various official growth forecasts for the year have moved from 8 per cent-plus to 8 per cent-minus, with only the pessimists saying it will fall to as low as 7 per cent -- which the country can live with in a downturn.
Failing TRP ratings of game shows like Paanchvi Pass, which is hosted by mega star Shah Rukh Khan has prompted Amitabh Bachchan to enlist the help of bloggers. According to his blog, the superstar said he is puzzled over the falling TRP ratings and asked inputs from bloggers to find out the reasons why.
India's gross domestic product product (GDP) growth rate between 2011-12 and 2016-17 should be about 4.5 per cent instead of the official estimate of close to 7 per cent, he said in a research paper published at Harvard University. "The Indian policy automobile has been navigated with a faulty, possibly broken, speedometer," he says in the paper.
Rohit Sharma-led squad will be hoping it has enough left in the tank to record a maiden T20 series win in New Zealand
Russia is banned from competing for their country due to an alleged state-backed doping scheme, but the International Olympics Committee (IOC) has allowed it to send so-called neutral athletes who have no history of drugs-cheating.
A team of international researchers has carried out the study and found moderately increased exposure to sunlight not only reduces the risk of skin cancer but can also prevent breast, colon and lung cancers.
'Shouldn't the DGCA ensure both safety and convenience of passengers?' 'And convenience has been a casualty as nobody knows which Jet flight would be grounded next, throwing passengers' plans in disarray,' says Nivedita Mookerji.
'Shouldn't the DGCA ensure both safety and convenience of passengers?' 'And convenience has been a casualty as nobody knows which Jet flight would be grounded next, throwing passengers' plans in disarray,' says Nivedita Mookerji.
After netting a mere Rs 1,570 crore in 2005-06 and 2006-07, divestment proceeds could well touch Rs 5,000 crore in this financial year.
Ishant Sharma is suffering from a knee injury he sustained during the Boxing Day Test against Australia in December.
In the new 'Verbal reasoning' section, the focus has shifted from vocabulary to reasoning -- will that make the GRE easier?
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