UK agrees to support India's defence manufacturing

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart Boris Johnson on Friday agreed on a new and expanded India-United Kingdom defence partnership, which will include support for new......

'Putin is a goonda'

'Sholay wallah kahani hai: 'Gabbar Singh aayega, Gabbar Singh aayega.''But what is inside Gabbar Singh nobody knows.' IMAGE: Kundan, Olga and Aaryan Sandwar, with Archi, after crossing the Polish......

Ladakh Fallout: How India Bled Chinese FDI

In 2020-2021, the amount of foreign direct investment into India from China and Hong Kong plummeted to just $200 million -- its lowest in the recent past.In the first half of 2021-2022, FDI......

Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

Will TCS Enter The Metaverse?

'At present Metaverse is a hype cycle.''If it succeeds, then I would like to see TCS there, too.' IMAGE: The Tata Consultancy Services offices. Photograph: PTI Photo With a stellar year in terms......

HDFC-HDFC Bank: Great Marriage, But...

But there are challenges, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Photograph: PTI Photo In Samuel Beckett's classic, Waiting for Godot, two tramps, Vladimir (nicknamed Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), are engaged......

Banks' NPAs never went away, they were only hidden

Indeed, there were frauds, and the politician-banker-industrialist nexus played a role in the rise of NPAs, but governance issues in Indian banking are far more nuanced and complex, reveals Tamal......

Railways may scrap new dedicated freight corridors, enhance existing ones

The ministry of railways is mulling scrapping the three newly proposed dedicated freight corridors (DFCs) — East Coast, East-West, and North-South — and instead enhancing the capacity......