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'General Zia was real startled'

'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.''Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.' IMAGE: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri and her husband Hardeep Singh Puri, currently India's minister of......

ISI trained ULFA militants, tried to appease Baruah: Book

The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which trained a batch of Assam's United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants in 1991-92, considered the rebel group's chief Paresh Baruah a prize catch......

Stop Displaying 'Army' On Private Vehicles

Displaying 'ARMY' on private transport is an attempt to milk the respect and reverence that the common citizen has for a person in the armed forces, observes Colonel K Thammayya Udupa (retd).By......

Myanmar military plane crashes at Mizoram airport, 8 injured

All the 14 passengers of a small Myanmar military plane had a miraculous escape on Tuesday after the aircraft overshot the table-top Lengpui airport runway near Aizawl and crash-landed into a bush,......

Political Actors Use Religion To Align Their Politics

The rulers of the day need to be sensitive and involved in managing the identities of sacred spaces and the ongoing dialogues about the past in diverse societies, suggests Colonel Nikhil Apte......

Israel-Hamas Conflict: India's IT Companies On Edge

'IT companies do not have a large presence in Israel either in terms of market and team. So, the impact of the war will be minimal. But West Asia is an emerging economy.' Kindly note the image has......

Rules for telecom infra roll out in defence area eased

The defence ministry has eased rules for rolling out mobile towers, optical fibre and other telecom infrastructure gears in its area in line with the "Right of Way (RoW)" Rules notified by the......

Banks' NPAs never went away, they were only hidden

Indeed, there were frauds, and the politician-banker-industrialist nexus played a role in the rise of NPAs, but governance issues in Indian banking are far more nuanced and complex, reveals Tamal......

A case for raising defence FDI to 100%

Access to India's defence market must be made conditional -- available only to those who are ready to make a long-term commitment in India, argues Ajai Shukla. IMAGE: Defence Minister Rajnath......

Adani Green Energy to raise $1.8 bn from foreign banks

The company will raise $1.8 billion for the under construction and contracted portfolio of 12 GW, which includes the country’s first manufacturing-linked solar power plant of 8 GW. IMAGE:......

Captain Miller Review: Dhanush To The Rescue

When you leave the cinema hall, what stays with you is the message of inclusion and the need to stand up for your freedom, observes Divya Nair. After a dud 2023, Dhanush lands a plush Pongal......

Tejas: Don't Get IAF Wrong!

'For god's sake, portray the armed forces in the correct manner,' asserts IAF veteran Air Commodore Nitin Sathe after watching Tejas. IMAGE: Kangana Ranaut as Tejas Gill in Tejas. A long......

'People called Amitabh 'camel''

'Not many know I am a Rajput from Jodhpur.''My ancestors shifted to Kolhapur as my great grandfather and grandfather were both engineers.''They were called by Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj to build the......

Karnan review

After Aadukalam and Asuran, this is another film Dhanush is going to be proud of, says Divya Nair. IMAGE: Dhanush in Karnan. Three years ago, when I wrote about Kaala, a lot of people, including......

15 BEAUTIFUL stories, told on screen

Aseem Chhabra introduces us to the best of Berlinale. I usually spend 10 days of February in Berlin attending the Berlinale, the most exciting international film festival in Europe, in the early......

'I was in the best team that never played for India'

Michael Dalvi, who played first class cricket for Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Bengal, once hit a century against a fiery Malcolm Marshall and the West Indies.At 77, he has a razor sharp memory, a ready......

From soccer to F1, Russia stands to lose after invasion of Ukraine

'We could have gone home as long as there was security but instead we waited. Last night the explosions woke us up.' IMAGE: People protest against Russia's attack on Ukraine, outside the Dutch......

Teen Afghan footballer died falling from US plane in Kabul

IMAGE: Zaki Anwari was Afghanistan's youth team footballer, one of the three people who fell off the US military plane as it took off from Kabul. Photograph: FIFPRO/Twitter A former Afghan......

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