Long hunt ends: Maoist chief Basavaraju gunned down

Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju, the powerful general secretary of Communist Party of India-Maoist killed in an encounter along with 26 others on Wednesday, had masterminded several major......

AI plane crash death toll hits 270 as families wait for bodies

The death toll in the London-bound Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad rose to 270 on Saturday even as the Centre set up a high-level multi-disciplinary panel headed by the Union home secretary to......

Indira Gandhi's Enemy No. 1 During The Emergency

'What does Indira Gandhi want from me?''At this age, what will I do to her?' IMAGE: Jayaprakash Narayan. Photograph: Courtesy, pibindia.wordpress.com June 25-26, 1975. At the stroke of midnight,......

Smile never returned: Bengal's Jhalda mourns IB officer lost in Pahalgam

A retired school headmaster from Jhalda in West Bengal, MK Mishra, stood trembling under the weight of unspeakable loss as the coffin of his 33-year-old son returned to his home in Purulia district......

Govt goes all out to woo investors

On its first day in office, the new government on Tuesday sent out the right signals to investors by bringing up the issue of retrospective taxation, something that had been hurting foreign......

Why Xi Jinping 'fixed' Jack Ma

Alibaba's pervasive economic and social influence in China is seen as a threat to the authority of the Chinese Communist party, notes Shyam Saran. IMAGE: Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman,......

Why it will be difficult to prove Kochhar's 'guilt'

Regulators and investigators around the world have access to sophisticated tools making it possible to detect white collar crimes. This is where Indian investigators and regulators have been found......

Beware! Now government can peep into your bedroom

  Various arms of the government are busy collecting and storing all possible details of its residents, without any constitutional safeguardSome time ago, an HIV-positive patient working with......