The story of Bihar's educational reform is a lesson for all reforms done halfway.
'The investigation is at a very critical stage. We are not going to give every single document.'
On Friday, March 28, 2025, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, inaugurated Techkriti 2025, Asia's largest intercollegiate technical and entrepreneurial festival, at IIT Kanpur.
On August 5, 1953, Jawaharlal Nehru sent a strange note to the foreign secretary. It is worth mentioning because it was symptomatic of the lack of knowledge about Western Tibet in India and in South Block in particular, notes Claude Arpi.
Investors can meet cash needs without selling their securities.
Clarity on Tata Sons' position on listing, as of 2025, would help define the future of the group better, irrespective of the RBI stand. As of now, the ball is in the RBI's court, and everyone is watching the space, points out Nivedita Mookerji.
'Every party want to contest more seats, nothing wrong in it. We have to compromise to take all together as the NDA.'
HAL's order book amounts to Rs 2.45 trillion by end of Q2FY26, implying a book-to-bill ratio of 32 times based on FY25 revenue.
'Do exhaustive research and then select the one that best fits your budget and requirements.'
Kiran More, retired Test cricketer and former chairman of the selectors, tells Faisal Shariff how this IPL season belongs to the batters and explains the art of scouting for new talent.
Aam Aadmi Party national Convener Arvind Kejriwal and his wife Sunita Kejriwal visit the Valmiki temple in New Delhi, January 15, 2024, ahead of filing his nomination for the Delhi assembly elections.
Can change happen? Not unless the changemakers themselves want it since they benefit the most from the status quo, warns Biswajit Dasgupta.
Asumal Sirumalani aka Asaram, the self-styled godman, who had been on a 17-day parole for treatment in Pune, returned to Jodhpur jail on January 1, 2025.
What appeared to be a generous act of friendship was, in truth, a manoeuvre within a much larger strategic game. The United States used the 1962 war not just to aid India but to test how far it could be pulled into the Western fold, points out Dr Kumar.
Bangladesh Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus paid tribute to Dr Manmohan Singh at the Indian high commission in Dhaka.
On Friday, March 21, 2025, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat inaugurated the three-day meeting of Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, the Sangh's top decision-making body.
But selectively, with regulatory scrutiny and special approval, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'I am still trying to understand the gravity of what's being done.' 'How can someone else decide how to conclude my film?'
Amid US-China trade tensions and economic vulnerabilities, India must seize the 'China +1' opportunity, deepen reforms, secure FTAs, and globalise its firms for long-term growth, suggests Ajay Shah.
India is seeking either an exemption or a longer timeline on the pharmaceutical tariffs, expected to kick in by July 31.
'If the RJD loses it would be out of power for nearly 25 years. Meanwhile, the JD-U will have survival issues if it gets less number of seats.'
Between 2015 and 2023, around 543 train accidents occurred, resulting in 805 deaths.
The Supreme Court's opinion on the presidential reference can impact on any number of cases if and when governors, if not the President, take a literary view of the Supreme Court's 'ppinion' on their 'discretionary powers' without reference to the rider on 'reasonable time', points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
New investors should not allow themselves to fall prey to FOMO and rush headlong into gold.
'For most investors, I recommend a low double-digit allocation (10 to 12 per cent) to gold and silver combined.'
''Now the roads in Bihar are as good as any other Indian state. The power sector has improved.' 'Connectivity, law and order, gender justice...' 'Bihar now stands for all these things that were totally absent when it was under jungle raj.'
On June 14, 2025, the US army celebrated its 250th anniversary with a parade championed by President Donald Trump in Washington, DC.
Sack Gambhir before he damages any more careers, if you must. But it cannot stop there. The project ahead must be bigger, more ambitious, and far more urgent: Rebuilding the spine of Indian cricket from the grassroots up, and giving the Test team the seriousness it deserves. Only then will Indian cricket stop lurching from one crisis to another and begin, once again, to imagine greatness, suggests Prem Panicker.
'...the electoral playing field is tilted significantly in its favour.'
One key development is the direct cargo connection between Chennai and Vladivostok, a crucial Russian port on the Northern Sea Route.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Saturday, April 5, 2025 accorded a grand ceremonial welcome at the historic Independence Square in Colombo, perhaps the first such honour given to a foreign leader.
If the men of 1983 gave India a reason to dream, the women of 2025 could give it something rarer -- the courage to live that dream in full daylight, under an open sky that finally belongs to them, points out Prem Panicker.
On Monday, February 17, 2025, Olympic and World Champion Neeraj Chopra launched the new Audi RS Q8 in Mumbai.
This is the longest winning streak for gold in the last three decades.
Bengaluru is at a critical juncture, where its economic model, reliant on attracting and retaining skilled professionals, is directly threatened by a measurable decline in urban quality of life, point out Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva.
'If we want to pivot meaningfully from a services-driven economy to a technology and manufacturing-led one.'
One flyer read: 'More Indians in 5 years, than Greeks and Italians in 100', adding, 'This isn't a slight cultural change, it's a replacement plain and simple'.
On Thursday, December 12, 2024, movie star Allu Arjun celebrated the success of his film Pushpa 2: The Rule earning Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) plus at the box office.
...a time when his legacy ledger was still positive and before the debacle against China. With every subsequent election, our leaders tend to become weaker. India should consider passing a law that no person should hold the highest office in our country for more than two terms, points out Harishchandra.
'The strategic difference over technology and territory between India and China remain great and security interests on both sides will likely prevent a short-term rapprochement of any depth.'
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