US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was received in style when he arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, November 9, 2023, for the the 5th India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue. Defence Minister Rajnath......
'To get a 100 per cent consensus document without any reservation, any bracket, any chair summary is unprecedented in the history of multilateral forums.' IMAGE: Amitabh Kant, India's G20 Sherpa,......
Women politicians bring to politics and policy a sensitivity that most of their male counterparts, at least until a generation back, lacked. IMAGE: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi prior to attending......
'There is one negative thing which has happened very quietly. The position of the election commissioner has been downgraded.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla,......
The new team of office bearers of Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party with many young faces, including party stalwart Sushma Swaraj's daughter Bansuri Swaraj, was announced on Tuesday. IMAGE: BJP leader......
An analysis of Budget speeches made by finance ministers over 75 years also offers a glimpse of how low on the priority list healthcare has featured for the political class and policy-makers, which......
'It's the brazen corruption involving politicians that makes you sit up years after the event,' notes Nivedita Mookerji after reading B K Syngal's Telecom Man. IMAGE: Brijendra K Syngal. Some......
If the finance minister's tax proposals have stimulated demand at all, it's for CAs, notes Kanika Datta. Photograph: ANI Photo In the space of three days, two significant speeches were......
'Electronic media splash sensational headlines of the bulb prices about to cross the three-figure mark and focus on customers looking longingly at baskets full of onions, bemoaning their misery......
IMAGE: A screen grab from Hema Malini's play, Ganga. It's not everyday that we get to interview the mesmerising Hema Malini. The interview is scheduled at Mumbai's ISKCON temple, and as we enter,......
'The thinking of society, even today, is that a woman always needs a man to be complete.''I am 50. I am single. I am invincible because I have been there, done that.' Photograph: Kind courtesy......
A look at what these film folk are doing these days. Photograph: Kind courtesy Amyra Dastur/Instagram Amyra Dastur's midweek motivation. Photograph: Kind courtesy Vikrant Massey/Instagram......
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj passed away on Tuesday. She had struck a chord with Bollywood personalities, and they took to......
Former External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj died of a cardiac arrest on Tuesday, and various personalities from the sports fraternity offered condolences on the demise of......