'If the dimensions of the strategic partnership worked out by India and the US seem like a grand alliance targeted at you-know-who, China had better realise that it has fathered it,' says B S Raghavan, a long time observer of China.
Is it inconsistency in policy, or the lack of robust support?
With fake products and machine-made mirrors making its way into the market, an age-old art form is under threat.
November 12 marks 25 years of the beginning of the World Wide Web. Shivanand Kanavi gives us the story of how it all began.
'I can tell you, Mr Chairman, from personal experience that there is nothing sadder than witnessing a close one, a loved one with mental illness at close quarters.' 'I have lived with a victim of mental illness. Like many in that condition, very often such people are in a state of denial.'
'Amitabh Bachchan told me, "I don't appreciate other people doing my voice".'
Following is the full text of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's speech at FICCI's 86th annual general meeting on Saturday:
This is the joint statement issued by the ministry of external affairs on the visit of US President Barack Obama to India.
Read the full transcript of President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday at the US Capitol in Washington.
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