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India Still Features In Trump's Security Plan

The new US national security strategy signals a retreat from global dominance while reaffirming continuity in India's role in Indo-Pacific security and Quad cooperation, points out former foreign......

How India Must Deal With Trump The Bully

The way to deal with a bully is to resist bullying, because submission in the first instance only invites even more overbearing demands in future. What may seem like a small price to pay now will......

'Prime Minister's Inclusion Is A Constitutional Mockery'

'This type of comprehensive legislation has never been introduced before in Parliament's history.' 'A bill that simultaneously affects ministers, chief ministers, and the prime minister represents......

How Census 2027 Will Be Done

'There will be not less than 31 lakh people working in the census process.' Photograph: ANI Photo The last census in India was in 2011. That was 14 years ago. The 2021 census had to be cancelled......

'New Delhi Can Hobnob With Moscow And Beijing, But...'

'...it should not delude itself into thinking that India's security or its great-power ambitions will be advanced by those partnerships.''Instead, what India should focus on is on riding out the......

Antrix dispute: Devas seizes $87,457 cash in US

Devas Multimedia has seized $87,457.47 cash that ISRO's commercial arm Antrix Corporation held in the US as it looked to enforce a $1.2 billion compensation it had won over a cancelled satellite......

Lessons for the Finance Minister to present a transformative Budget

Structural changes to government finances could be focus of the Union Budget, says Mihir S Sharma. In a fortnight, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley may well render the memory of his two previous,......

Quadricycles: Don't let corporate rivalry drive regulation

Some automobile makers want the Union ministry for road transport and highways to raise the weight cap on quadricycles from 450 kg to 600 kg. Image: Quadricycles are meant to replace......

Indian IT is dead!

But Indian information technology workers might do better without the companies that held them back, says Mihir S Sharma. Let’s give President Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, and......

2017 saw questions, will 2018 get us answers on economy?

The NDA government was initially reticent about fleshing out its economic strategy for the future. But now that it has taken enough bold initiatives on the economic front, it must have the......

Superman Review: Exhilarating But Exhausting

This Superman likes a cuppa of hot cocoa, trusts people around him quite easily, gets hurt by social media trolls (the '#Supershit' particularly irks him), and admits to 'screwing up' all the time,......

Tom Alter diagnosed with skin cancer

One of India's finest actors is seriously ill. One of India's finest actors is critically ill. Tom Alter, a newspaper report said on Monday, has been diagnosed with cancer. The 67-year-old actor......

'Mini Me' and Timeless Mr India

'Mr India was not the only 'invisible' person on the set.''There was a an 11 year old kid constantly with me, that no one else could see, except me.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Shekhar......

Remembering the incredible Tom Alter!

Saluting Tom Alter, who passed into the ages on September 29. Romance icon Rajesh Khanna’s remarkable charisma in Aradhana sparked the acting bug in many. Somewhere in the small town of......

The Amjad Khan We Didn't Know

None of Amjad Khan's subsequent roles could outshine Sholay.He had begun his career at the top and had no higher peaks left to conquer.Dinesh Raheja salutes the iconic actor on his 80th birth......

From SKY to Rinku: How India Built Their T20 WC Team

As India gear up for the T20 World Cup at home, the selectors have backed a squad built on impact, and versatility. PTI takes a look at the profile the players entrusted with India's campaign at......

CSK's U-19 WC star Hangargekar accused of age-fudging

Rajvardhan Hangargekar is accused of altering his date of birth from January 10, 2001 to November 10, 2002. IMAGE: India's Rajvardhan Hangargekar bowls during the ICC Under-19 World Cup final......

Conflict of interest: BCCI employee Parikh found guilty

'I am convinced that on the facts at hand, a case of conflict of interest as enshrined in the Rules is made out.' BCCI ethics officer D K Jain on Tuesday found Board employee Mayank Parikh guilty......

Woods fighting to return, 'grateful' to have life, leg

Woods said amputation "was on the table" during the three-week hospital recovery in California. IMAGE: Behind the microphone for the first time since the life-altering car accident in......

Chinese judge faces hearing after switching scores

International gymnastic officials have brought a disciplinary suit against a Chinese judge for altering a score that helped his compatriot win gold at last year's Asian Games. Judge Bin Shao, who......