'Poor home work, and a subsequent loss of nerve.' 'This sums up the Modi government's current travails, the stall in key sectors, fading momentum, irritability,' points out Shekhar Gupta.
Foreigners entering the United States through J F Kennedy airport in New York will now be required to give the prints of all fingers instead of two index fingers sought previously. The new system, which is in its initial stages, is aimed at enhancing the security and efficiency in verifying the identities of the visitors' arriving at the airport, said US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The final evaluation of the new system will be made in December.
The grieving mourners included members of Sabri's family, friends and fans. They threw rose petals over an ambulance carrying his coffin and later followed the vehicle to the graveyard, where he was buried near the grave of his father Ghulam Farid Sabri, a leading qawwal of his time.
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has taken a dig at the media for highlighting trivial issues in their race for news and ignoring developmental issues in the state.
Adobe has acquired Virtual Ubiquity and its online word processor, Buzzword. It has also added a new service Share, which allows users to share, publish and organise documents online.
The Rafale will surely be flying in Indian skies next year. But the way the BJP government has botched this will cast a shadow on defence acquisitions in the years to come.
A time may come when human rights activists, liberals, intellectual elite, eminent persons, secularists and other lumpen elements may argue that it is okay for the State to fund the activities of such violent groups who according to them mean well to "liberate" those people who vibe on the same wavelength with them!
The Janata Dal (S)-BJP coalition government in Karnataka is under fire for banning women from working on the night shift.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's Cannes fashion choices have come a long way from her debut in 2002.
An American TV crew which claimed to have found footprints of the mysterious Yeti in the Himalayas plan to get castings from the prints analysed in the US, even as the Nepal Mountaineering Association expressed doubts over the discovery.
'The debate, by being mostly in Hindi, lost much of its educative relevance to the southern states.' 'All the prime minister's debating skills and oratorical prowess went over the heads of the South Indian audience,' points out B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
Under fire for using the word presstitutes for the media, V K Singh said he apologises to journalists barring a small section of media persons who were carrying out a "motivated campaign" against him.
Metro's print advertisement campaign shows a man in a suit without wearing shoes, and the tagline says 'The Incomplete Man'. The print campaign was released in a leading media publication.
'There is need to invent another enemy.' 'If you can add Maoists to Muslims, the tukde-tukde thread will tie in nicely.' 'You might even have a 'nation in grave danger' story by the summer of 2019,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
'The CBI should be bifurcated and the CBI's charter should be restricted to anti-corruption cases.'
'The investigation of major criminal cases having national and international implications, and national crimes spread over more than one state may be entrusted to a new national crime bureau,' recommends Dr Madhav Godbole, the former home secretary.
On Day Two of Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2017, Rediff.com met these stylish women from across India.
With the Centre and state governments building public-private partnerships for bringing e-governance and rural connectivity, Hewlett-Packard India has identified e-governance as a focus area for its offerings in the printing and imaging series.
'As demonetisation showed us, the Shah-Modi duo can take big risks.' 'Risking economic damage for political benefit, however, is one thing, stoking old fires in complicated Assam is another', warns Shekhar Gupta.
Take a look at how the runway dazzled when she posed for the cameras with elegance and poise.
The Election Commission on Saturday asked political parties in Bihar not to publish advertisements that have the potential to create mutual hatred and ill-will among different social and religious communities so that the peaceful atmosphere is not vitiated.
'This was the worst phase yet in the state's human rights history.' 'Notorious interrogation centres were set up, large numbers died in firing on civilian mobs.' 'This is what today's generations might identify better as the Haider phase in Kashmir's history,' says Shekhar Gupta.
A series of bypoll losses has pushed the Modi government into panic mode. Uncharacteristically, it's letting events dictate its actions, says Shekhar Gupta.
'Mulk questions the very principle, of good-Muslim exceptionalism.' 'That, of course, we adore Abdul Hamid, A P J Abdul Kalam and Bismillah Khan and if only more Muslims were like them.' 'Anubhav Sinha sticks his neck out to say that these are no exceptions.' 'Most Muslims are like them. It is the terrorists who are exceptions,' says Shekhar Gupta.
As the service tax department is probing the evasion of service tax on bulk discounts offered by the print media to advertising agencies
He also ruled out Al Qaeda's relations with militant groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir.
'Disagreements between reporters and the White House has always been there, but this is the most tense I have seen it since I have been there.'
Considering that tobacco advertising generates a lot of revenue and jobs, should the government impose such a ban?
Spenta Multimedia is looking for Marketing Executives Printing.
The coming elections seem a tough battleground for the BJP in the wake of anti-incumbency, Patidar and Dalit agitations and implementation of the GST.
'The Modi government's greatest blunder is to exploit sensitive external relations in its domestic politics,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Why do the biggest, most talented and successful film-makers of India suck up to the establishment so breathlessly, asks Shekhar Gupta.
Faced with an onslaught of unsavoury messages on social media, some purportedly written by retired and serving personnel, the army on Thursday turned to Facebook to caution them against accepting or forwarding messages without verifying facts.
If the judiciary loses this fight, it will suffer irreparable damage and all of us citizens will be the losers.
'Nawaz Sharif asked: "What if I invited him and he declined?"' 'I said I will check.' 'Vajpayee liked the idea. He said I should see him on my return.' Shekhar Gupta reveals how Sharif wanted to make peace, but was tripped by the army and notes the lessons it has for Imran Khan.
Maran challenged reports that he and another company official have been summoned as accused by a Delhi court in two tax evasion cases
The Supreme Court Monday restrained the electronic and the print media from broadcasting and publishing the contents of illegally tapped conversation of anyone, including that of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh.
The exact figure not known yet but advertisements for recruiting employees would hit print this week.
It's raining written words in India as the industry rides a boom. More newspapers, magazines... and still more launches ahead.
Sources say investors of the company have expressed their desire to speak to the management shortly and it could be about discussing Yadav's role in the company.
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