The lessons not learnt from Bhopal

Dow and Bhopal together illustrate vividly how the authority of nation-states and their government is being usurped by the corporations of all hues giving birth to a perverse trans-nationalism,......

Pak army's obsession with India must end

With the Pakistani state having surrendered Swat to the Taliban, the future of Pakistan as a normal functioning modern state is in question. As the former Pakistani ambassador Zafar Hilaly noted in......

'Final problem is going to be between US and Pak'

K Subrahmanyam, who used to chair the Joint Intelligence Committee and headed the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses for 15 years, is one of India's foremost strategic experts. While not......

PM had a calm and serene effect on Bush

With the financial meltdown in the US gripping his administration, President George W Bush told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the one person he wanted to spend time with was the Indian leader......

IOC plans 2,000 retail outlets

Indian Oil Corporation will be importing 8.4 million tonnes crude oil on a term contract basis from Iraq, which is higher than what it planned to get from Saudi Arabia during 2004-05. The Saudi......