'The government should come back as a job creator as it did in the 1960s and the 1970s.'
'When you watch Freedom At Midnight, I want you to feel like you are sitting on a ticking time bomb.'
'That way you're not hostage just to US sort of exports to India.'
Already assured of a spot in the top 10 on Monday, the 23-year-old Jack Draper hoped to make his first foray into a Masters 1000 final a triumphant one when he meets Dane Holger Rune at Indian Wells on Sunday.
The Air India flight crashed into the sea after a mid-air bomb explosion in what was a failed assassination attempt on Chinese premier Zhou En Lai.
'An earthquake of a slightly higher magnitude in the Western Himalayan region is going to be catastrophic -- not just because of the fragility of the region but because of how densely we have occupied it.'
The Constitution is a terrific document, but it is also one that has suppressed the Hindu majoritarian sentiment. We are living through times when this suppression is being popularly rejected, notes Aakar Patel.
Whether the third wave will ravage us depends on the pace of vaccinations, careful and calibrated opening up of establishments, and a strategy to contain the spread in specific states or pockets.
The Sikkim government is planning to convert an artificial lake, formed by a massive landslide in the state's northern part in August last year, into a tourist spot.
Nearly 31 million Indians are unemployed and looking for jobs. While economic growth has been humming along, the pace of job creation has been poor. A revealing excerpt from Dev Kar's India: Still A Shackled Giant.
Red Bull and Renault will be working flat out to ensure Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel does not go into next weekend's title showdown in Brazil with a 'ticking time bomb' deep inside his car.
Bruce Riedel, erstwhile Central Intelligence Agency veteran and senior National Security Council official in the Clinton Administration, who spearheaded President Obama's strategic review on Afghanistan and Pakistan, has said the US-India strategic partnership, "a core relationship for the United States," today faces "its most difficult problem ever that is a ticking bomb next door in Pakistan -- a time bomb which could explode at any moment."
What has been forgotten is the fundamental characteristic of these contracts. What is trading in index numbers if not a wager? Is it not speculation per se packaged in sophisticated language, exotic terms and backed by legislation and regulators?
'If the Amendment Bill 2016 becomes law, the indigenous people of Assam will become a minority and the language, literature and culture of Assam will be lost.'
Charging that Islamabad has not taken any concrete action against the group, Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), said US President Barack Obama should focus on LeT and other extremist organisation which are of enormous concern.
Swamy had also claimed that Rajan was "mentally not fully Indian" and alleged that he has "wilfully" wrecked the economy
What about Uttar Pradesh Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Gujarat and Bihar? Mamata asked.
Six decades and more later, we are now captives of our identities. Every poll is based on elaborate calculations of electability of candidates on the basis of their castes and other narrow definers. That, along with voter promiscuity, is what defines our political culture, which remains stubbornly resistant to any change, asserts Shreekant Sambrani.
China's growth model is based on the oldest rapid economic growth hormone available: debt.
It's time to re-examine government's role as owner of banks,
An interview with Amit Mitra, the finance minister of West Bengal.
In the last three years, the Union Territory administration has invoked 311 (2)(c) of the Constitution to sack more than 50 employees, who were allegedly operating in shadows within the government and drawing a salary from the public exchequer, however, they were helping Pakistani terror outfits, providing logistics to terrorists, propagating terrorists' ideology, raising terror finances and furthering secessionist agenda, officials said.
Indian economy needs 12 million new jobs every year to absorb a growing workforce and urban migrants
In a rare break from tradition, Warren Buffett on Monday released parts of his annual letter to shareholders on the Web site of Fortune.
The sudden demise of King of Pop Michael Jackson has reopened a can of worms.
'Rhetoric and chest-thumping are running high on India's recent growth record.'
'But will the giant waves developing elsewhere allow us to sail smoothly into fair winds?' asks Debashis Basu.
Investigation agencies say that Indian Mujahideen bought 170 clocks from a shop in Guwahati; 23 were used in Patna to carry out two attacks and some were recovered during a raid in Mangalore. The worry is that 110 clocks are still out there ticking. Vicky Nanajappa reports
A year after the devastating fire at AMRI Hospital in Kolkata, another inferno is just waiting to erupt anytime in another hospital or nursing home in the state, warns Dr Kunal Saha
We present some images relating to the deteriorating relations between North Korea and South Korea.
'The Himalayas are the Creator of Life.'
It's been a year since three blasts ripped through crowded localities of Mumbai, killing 26 people and injuring 130. Rediff.com correspondents walked down memory lane with survivors and re-lived the fateful July 13 evening that was smeared with blood, agony and fear.
Sukanya Verma lists the best mystery movies this past decade.
Running a fractious House full of members every bit as well versed in parliamentary law as the chair, has, in the past, reduced several Rajya Sabha chairmen to tears.
South Africa's director of cricket Graeme Smith does not expect the national team to be back in action until November at the earliest and confirmed the scheduled tour of West Indies has been postponed indefinitely. Cricket West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave said last week they are hopeful of hosting South Africa in September for either two Tests or five T20 Internationals, but Smith has made clear that will not happen.
Cairns feels his sporting career is helping his recovery as he hopes to be able to walk again.
Relationship problems? Let Love Guru help.
An adverse outcome against the BJP in UP can well be taken into its stride by the ruling combine at the Centre, argues Virendra Kapoor.
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