China's new nuke-capable missile can strike from space

Revelations about an advanced Chinese missile test in August have startled many by the technological knowhow displayed by China. IMAGE: An LY-80 surface-to-air missile weapon system displayed at......

US 'laser-focused' on troop pullout from Afghanistan by Aug 31

The Biden Administration on Monday said it was now focused on completing its evacuation mission from Afghanistan by August 31, the deadline for removing all American troops from the country.......

'India is the swing superpower of the 21st century'

'If India maintains the Constitutional set-up that its founders envisaged -- which is that it is a parliamentary democracy, with a broadly speaking market economy, in which all people are equal as......

'Very, very hard for Modi to return with a comparably large majority'

'Most likely scenario is Modi comes back with either a much smaller majority and no majority at all and a coalition.''Very hard to imagine him doing better than he did last time.''He will then be a......

Odisha rolls out first-ever mobile app for investment

The 'Invest Odisha' mobile app is currently available on the Android platform. Odisha has become the first state in the country to launch a mobile app exclusively for investment facilitation. The......

How India can escape the dry spell doom

Since 2000, India has had three serious droughts. The World Bank has estimated that the 2012 drought reduced the country's gross domestic product by half a percentage point, even though it was not......

Can India feed 1.7 billion people by 2050?

India alone accounts for 25 per cent of undernourished people of the world, more than in entire Sub-Saharan Africa.   By current estimates, India’s total population will be similar......

Architects of G20: Sarkozy and Singh

France and India have become partners in building a multipolar world, French President Nicholas Sarkozy's adviser tells Sanjaya Baru. A month before the Lehman Brothers' collapse moved the tectonic......