Modi Set To Use G20 Presidency For Domestic Use

Modi on the global stage always comes across as a statesman, counselling peace and amity to world leaders even as his policies at home hurt certain sections, explains Virendra Kapoor. IMAGE: Prime......

Meet the Brazilian guest on Republic Day

As someone with nostalgia for the good cheer and friendly feelings of the Brazilian people, India's former Ambassador to Brazil B S Prakash hopes that when they see their president being feted on......

The new BJP is like the old Congress

While it took the Congress nearly a half century to earn the hatred of other political outfits, the BJP appears set to reach there in around six years, says Arun Bhatnagar, former secretary to the......

'Hindus have always been the most powerful vote bank'

'Had Muslims been a vote bank, they wouldn't be in the condition they are now,' Asaduddin Owaisi tells Jyoti Punwani. IMAGE: Asaduddin Owaisi during his padyatra in Aurangabad. Photograph: Asia......

How successful women deal with marriage, mobility & maternity

A lot of women drop out of higher studies or their professional career because of marriage or motherhood. That's the reason many women in their late twenties and early-thirties leave their careers......

For stock markets to boom, go easy on terrorists!

"If devils were to rule, Laws would devour corpses." -- Mahakavi Subramaniya Bharathi First the context. Ever since adopting the new economic policies in the early nineties, successive Indian......

Mobile data market booms in India

Indian Idol, licensed from the American Idol format, went on air on Sony Entertainment Television in October 2004. The talent hunt for singers had already been a huge hit in the US. The show was......

Wooing Generation Next

It might have seemed like an unusual move by Himalaya Drug Company. A few months ago the company decided to make a splash with its honey-based products in Cafe Coffee Day outlets. So, it designed a......

How DK's Dream Came True

IMAGE: Dinesh Karthik was named in India's squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia beginning next month. Photograph: BCCI   Dinesh Karthik's tweet on Monday, said it all. 'Dreams do come......

Is Virat better than Sachin?

'This was Kohli's veneration for his master: The man who had inspired him to pick up a cricket bat in the first place, the man he had grown up watching.''Just that now, he was exactly like him, or,......