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Modi first foreign head to get Bhutan's highest civilian honour

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday received Bhutan's highest civilian award, the 'Order of the Druk Gyalpo', making him the first foreign Head of the Government to receive the honour. IMAGE:......

Modi conferred with France's highest award Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the first Indian premier to have been conferred with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, France's highest civilian and military honour, by French......

Rahul targets Modi on Manipur; frustrated dynast, says BJP

Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that the Rafale deal got him a "ticket to the Bastille Day Parade" while the Bharatiya Janata Party, hitting back at......

India, France may co-develop key military platforms for export

India and France were exploring possibilities for co-development and co-production of key military platforms for export to friendly countries and stepping up cooperation in space-based maritime......

Egypt's strategic partnership for India, highest award for Modi

Imparting new momentum, India and Egypt on Sunday elevated their relationship to a ‘strategic partnership' after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi held......

France bestows Chevalier de la Legion on Premji

Azim Premji, chairman of IT major Wipro, was conferred the highest French civilian honour for his outstanding contribution to developing the information technology industry in India, his economic......

Tribute to JRD Tata, an iconic businessman

"I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country." – JRD Tata One of India’s most enterprising businessmen, Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was born......

China's $20 bn investment to transform India?

Read through the list of 16 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) signed between China and India during President Xi Jinping's state visit a fortnight ago and it is hard to pin down the $20 billion......

Rahul Bajaj honoured with France's highest award

France has awarded its highest civilian award, 'Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honour', to Rahul Bajaj, Chairman of Bajaj Auto.On behalf of France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, French......

Importance of being Krugman

I read Paul Krugman's now much-reproduced column 'Gordon Does Good' in the online New York Times on the morning of October 13. A few hours later, I spoke to a colleague in Bonn and told her about......

Bollywood 2021: R to Z RECAP

Even with an ongoing pandemic, theatres in many states functioning at 50 per cent occupancy, a relatively quieter social life and fewer movies, Bollywood still managed to pack in plenty of drama......

Kannada actor Puneet Rajkumar dead

Kannada cinema's reigning star and celebrity television host Puneeth Rajkumar, known for films such as Appu, Veera Kannadiga and Maurya, died in Bengaluru on Friday following a massive......

Bengalis feel we have lost a family member

'He always seemed one of us, part of the great aspiring middle class -- his values, his simplicity, even the intellectual snobbery which he could barely hide,' observes Mousumi Sengupta.......

Discovering the charming Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee -- one of the finest Indian actors of our time -- meant so much to Aseem Chhabra. IMAGE: Soumita Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar. He had a thick......

Kamal Haasan gets prestigious French honour

Maverick actor and filmmaker Kamal Haasan has added yet another feather to his illustrious hat. He has been conferred the prestigious Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts Arts et Lettres (Knight in......

Part of me leaves with Federer, says emotional Nadal

'When Roger leaves the tour, yeah, an important part of my life is leaving too because all the moments he has been next or in front me in important moments of my life.' IMAGE: Team Europe's Roger......

Statue of Kobe, Gigi Bryant placed at crash site on anniversary

IMAGE: Los Angeles sculptor Dan Medina has honoured the anniversary of the deaths of Kobe and Gigi Bryant by placing a temporary statue of the two where their helicopter crashed two years ago in......

Rajinder Goel: He shone bright in Bedi's shadow

IMAGE: Rajinder Goel played 26 seasons of first-class cricket, with 750 first-class wickets. Photograph: Twitter There were few cricketers unluckier than Rajinder Goel and even fewer who had the......

Don Bradman's India connection

Although sounds strange, it's a fact that despite having legions of fans in India since he began striding the cricket world like a colossus, Don Bradman never toured this country irrespective of......

China organisers rapped over 'sold-out' stadiums

Despite a rampant home team and a legion of passionate fans, organisers of the Guangzhou Asian Games were embarrassed into issuing more tickets on Monday to bolster disappointing crowds. Promises......

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