'The Olympic Spirit has been thrown to the wind in Xi Jinping's China.' 'The International Olympic Committee is ready to kowtow to totalitarian China,' notes Claude Arpi.
Mere shuffling of resources or cosmetic changes to prove a point would be counterproductive in the long run, observes Commodore Venugoptal Menon (retd).
'Transformation of Ukraine into some kind of permanent strategic challenger, which Russia would have to contain and deter, spend a significant part of political and strategic resources on it.'
A Taiwanese warship on Friday "mistakenly" fired a supersonic "anti-ship missile" towards China as it celebrated 95th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party amid assertions by President Xi Jinping ruling out independence for Taiwan.
A genuine attempt was made to reset relations in a positive way, signalling a stepping back from the brink of conflict, much to the relief of the world, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Some of the workers claimed they were entitled to draw salaries of SGD 2,200 to SGD 3,300 per month but were paid only SGD 900
US Defence Secretary Llyod Austin described China as a pacing challenge for the United States.
Profit taking in index heavweights RIL and HDFC weighed on sentiment while ICICI Bank surged 7%.
Sensex slumped 518 points to end the day at 25,582 and the Nifty slipped 164 points to close at 7,623.
'The market position from here on is expected to go up'.
The 2020 Ryder Cup is scheduled to take place from Sept. 25-27 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin but there are doubts that it can go ahead as planned. ROry McIlroy said the absence of spectators would ruin the spectacle.
ICICI Bank and SBI were among the top Sensex gainers along with FMCG majors ITC and HUL.
Princess Shivranjani of Jodhpur is breathing new life into dead forts and quietly changing the house of Marwar.
Tata Steel, SBI, Infosys and L&T were among the top gainers for the day.
Global cues lift Sensex 364 points; Nifty ends above 8,650.
Markets ended lower on Tuesday, snapping a two-day winning streak, as investors turned cautious and booked profit in financials.
An independent Taiwan under President Tsai Ing-wen's Democratic Progressive Party is anathema to China, observes Rup Narayan Das.
By the year 2027, which marks the centennial of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, China will build a fully modern military, a goal that is in alignment with the national strength and will fulfil the future national defence need, state-run Global Times quoted Chinese analysts as saying.
Situated at a height of 15,200 feet above sea level, the pass sits on the top of a craggily formed Himalayan range that separates the Tibetan plateau from the Indian sub-continent.
The rupee fell to a two-year low of 64.84 against the US dollar.
Participants are eagerly waiting for the key macrodata -- IIP and CPI numbers due to be released later today.
The first priority for the new Tibetan administration in Dharamsala should be to look at Tibetan recruitment in the PLA, suggests Claude Arpi.
India golfer Anirban Lahiri is making the country proud and on India's 68th Independence Day, he gave his countrymen a couple of big reasons to be proud.
The Sensex ended up 48 points at 28,386 and the Nifty gained 13 points to close at 8,476.
Investors indulged in buying beaten down blue chips at lower and attractive levels.
Most producers have put off plans to make capital investments in their wineries, and implemented cost-reduction measures to conserve cash.
Metals bucked the trend and shone across the board.
The S&P BSE Sensex surged 364 points to end at 24,607 and the Nifty50 soared 107 points to close at 7,476.
The S&P BSE Sensex surged 160 points to close at 25,262.
Benchmark share indices trimmed intra-day gains after global crude oil prices resumed their downward trajectory after sharp gains on Friday.
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The broader markets traded positively with mid-caps and small-caps rising 0.5 per cent each on the BSE.
Congress leader Jitin Prasada joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday, in a boost to the saffron party as it works to strengthen its social coalition ahead of assembly elections in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh early next year.
The Hindutva social media continues to present the DMK especially as anti-god, anti-Hindu and anti-Brahmin. The strategy did not work in the past, it has not worked in the present, and would not work in the future, as a massive vote-getter, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Gains were led by Tata Motors on robust Q1 earnings and HDFC Group shares.
Yogi Adityanath's aura is no longer limited to Uttar Pradesh. At the age of 49, his journey to the higher echelons in the BJP has well and truly begun, predicts Sudhir Bisht.
Amit Panghal helped his father with the harvesting of wheat and in the process witnessed the 'misery of farmers' shattered by unseasonal rains and the lockdown to contain the deadly pandemic.
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Markets ended lower on profit taking ahead of June F&O expiry.
Markets ended lower for the third straight day on Tuesday weighed down by profit taking in rate sensitives with bank shares leading the decline after hopes of rate cut by the central bank faded.
The 30 share Sensex ended up 183 points at 27,470 and the 50-share Nifty gained 44 points to close at 8,295.
The co-pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines plane made a desperate call from his mobile phone moments before the jet went off the radar with 239 people on board under mysterious circumstances on March 8.
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