Ambassador Natarajan Krishnan and Ambassador Shankar Bajpai helped shape Indian foreign policy at a glorious, but difficult, time in history, recalls Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
The Tamil Nadu chief minister's petition requests for the transfer of two disproportionate assets from a Bangalore special court to Pondicherry on the ground that a strong anti-Tamil sentiment prevailing in Karnataka.
Kadavul Irukaan Kumarui is plain annoying, warns S Sarawasthi.
"There should be a check on the number of ministers in a government like in Delhi and Pondicherry, which are Union\n\nTerritories but have assemblies," Deputy Prime Minister Advani said.
Since May 1, the dynamic fuel pricing model has been applied on a pilot basis in 5 cities
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on February 2, left the key interest rate unchanged citing inflation.
'Today may be the last day for depositing old notes, but tomorrow all the worries of the banks will not go away.' 'As long as there is cash shortage, banks will not be able to function normally.' 'Nobody knows when the shortage will be over.'
P V Sindhu and Parupalli Kashyap cruised to the next round, but it was qualifier Shriyanshi Pardeshi of Air India who hogged the limelight after stunning former women's National champion Trupti Murgunde in straight games at the 78th ATS Senior National Badminton Championships in Delhi on Friday.
Get your lowdown of what's happening in Malayalam cinema right here!
Residents of the union territory had got relief for a while on Friday when there was some let up in the downpour but it started raining heavily again on Friday night.
One's dreams never end. If you don't dream, you don't exist. You need to dream to look forward to in life, Radha Daga, who went from a textile exporter to food entrepreneur at 60 years of age, shares her incredible journey with Shobha Warrier.
'Why don't they suggest artificial intelligence training for SC/STs?' 'Why can't they be trained in computer programming?'
Several protests -- some peaceful, some violent -- erupted across India on Monday against the police crackdown in Jamia Millia Islamia and the controversial citizenship law as students and political leaders took to the streets, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi called these protests "deeply distressing" and appealed for peace.
'I wondered what mistakes I made in my life to be a businessman. Deep down, I still have doubts about it.' Shobha Warrier meets the amazing Dilip Kapur who built a Rs 160 crore business with just Rs 25,000.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, which is placed 33rd this year.
PSG College of Technology has invited IT firms and external agencies to conduct training.
Day Two after the banks reopened following the prime minister's demonitisation announcement, the scenario remained just as chaotic as Day One, reports A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com.
'It would be interesting to see how Yogi Adityanath is received in Tamil Nadu, where he is due to end his Ram Rajya Rath Yatra in Rameswaram on March 23.'
Puducherry's outgoing Lieutenant Governor Virendra Kataria on Wednesday alleged that his unceremonious ouster was plotted by the government here because of his opposition to "wrongdoings" going on in the Union Territory.
'The nominations were not meant to last permanently, but depended on the government of the day.' 'There was no question of revoking it during Congress, Janata Dal or even Vajpayee's NDA rule.' 'But Modi is different.'
'They have started an institute, the Academy of Training and Sensitisation, for prison officials near Vellore.' 'This institute has been started by the Union home ministry and it is meant for all the four southern states.'
What political leaders and twitterati had to say about India's response to the Uri attack.
Haasan said that interference in the functioning of an elected government is 'unacceptable in a democracy'.
10 central trade unions have called a nationwide shutdown against 'anti-worker policies' of the central government. Apart from being successful in Bengal, Kerala and NE states, the bandh has also got support from Cong leader Rahul Gandhi and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.
Security was beefed up with a large number of police personnel being deployed around the campus as a precautionary measure.
Indian Navy chief Admiral D K Joshi resigned on Wednesday evening after owning moral responsibility for the series of mishaps plaguing submarines in the military.
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Seven Indian Navy personnel were injured on Wednesday and two officers unaccounted for in a mishap on board Russian-origin Kilo Class submarine INS Sindhuratna, 80 kms off the Mumbai coast.
'It takes massive courage and clarity to choose quality over time.' 'It's not that Annie never doubted her choice -- she wavered occasionally.' 'But she went with her instincts, and retained control of her life and scripted her own best possible death,' says Mitali Saran.
Shikha Verma offers invaluable money management insights
In yet another accident involving the Navy, one civilian worker was killed and two were injured in an accident at the under-construction nuclear submarine at the shipbuilding centre of Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam on Saturday night.
Irumbu Kuthirai an uninspiring and lacklustre tale of a guilt-ridden biker, who blames himself for a freak bike accident that causes the death of his beloved father.
The Lankans had to pay Indian human smugglers Rs 50,000 per head for the arduous and risky journey to Australia.
This classification of districts is to be followed by states and union terrotories till a week post May 3, when the second phase of lockdown will end, for containment operations.
'What does the nation get out of the CBI's fabulous infrastructure? Very little that is useful.'
Why must Indians adjust their time-tested system because of what the West needs, asks Sanjeev Nayyar.
Many of us commit these generic mistakes which can turn our insurance buying decision futile, says Shikha Verma
Bhubaneswar-based Akshaya Rautaray and Satabdi Mishra are on a mission to promote reading.
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