Steven Soderbergh's most recent effort looks like a 40s film but fails to capture the spirit of the era.
In a Sri Lankan House of 225 members, the cut-off figure comes to 113. With Wickremesinghe side touching 102 and Rajapaksa's team at 101, the three-party Tamil National Alliance with 16 members and the left-leaning Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna with 6 members hold the key. But with the latter declaring that they will not support either formation in a vote count,that leaves the TNA as the deciding factor, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Two years ago in the World Cup, they beat and finished above England in their group to reach the quarter-finals Bangladesh run to Champions Trophy last four is reward for years of toil
'We should expect a cold-blooded, transactional relation that requires a lot of engagement and mutual trust to sustain,' says Constantino Xavier, Fellow, foreign policy, Brookings India.
Formula One teams return to the racetrack on Tuesday for the first tests of a new "post war" era, as well as one without Michael Schumacher.
Former Australia Test cricketer and post-war sporting great Keith Miller's funeral will be in Melbourne.
'Pakistan has worsted India in the Afghan proxy war and the defeat becomes a template of regional politics,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Free from the Islamic State, Syria's Kobani now lies in ruins.
A major Chinese telecom firm has won an over $5 million contract in post-war Iraq, despite facing "some resistance" from the US-led provincial authority, the state media reported on Tuesday.
Both demanded called for efforts to minimise the damage caused to international relations by the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Text of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's speech at the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2004.
'By having India as an ally, the United States hopes to curb Chinese ambitions.'
Those who think they know how long it's going to take to stabilise Iraq are fooling themselves, according to Donald Rumsfeld.
The post-war reconstruction work in Iraq will open fresh opportunities for the Indian infotech sector and would not remain constrained to the United States and United Kingdom companies only.
Indian industry is hopeful of getting a 'significant portion' of the $300 billion to be spent for reconstruction work in Iraq over the next 5-7 years.
China's intended role for AIIB is not so different from the existing Western lenders like the World Bank.
India has evinced interest in building refineries and petrochemical plants in Iraq and is keen to source liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its second largest oil supplier.
The overall message to the middle class is: the days of freebies are over.
'The origins of the model of planned economic development adopted by independent India was a direct consequence of the war.' 'The war provided an opportunity for groups at the margins of Indian society to find new avenues for mobility.' 'The war also led to the emergence of India as a major Asian power and set the stage for it to play a wider role in international politics.'
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday left for Iraq on a two-day visit aimed at deepening India's ties with the oil-rich Arab country.Khurshid, the first Indian external affairs minister to visit Iraq in last 23 years, will hold talks with his Iraqi counterpart Hoshiyar Zebari and discuss bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest.
'Raza exemplified a sense of warmth and a connectedness to his roots and to Indian earth.'
He was ready even to take on Germany's collective guilt over the Holocaust
The emperor has no political power, yet he enjoys a unique place in Japanese society, notes Dr Rajaram Panda.
Angela Merkel was today sworn in as German Chancellor for a rare third term to govern Europe's biggest economy after she painstakingly forged a deal with her centre-left rivals to end three months of post-election limbo.
Both have made factory jobs the centre of their economic agendas. Kanika Datta explains the practical limits to their ambitions.
Like Mr Trump, says Kanika Datta, politics tempts many businessmen.
Making her film debut with The Householder, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote more screenplays than novels, winning two Oscars -- for A Room with a View and Howards End. She kept her distance from the film crowd, seeking refuge in the 'protective' company of her two life-long collaborators, Director James Ivory and Producer Ismail Merchant.
The 'Raj Bhavan/Nakkeeran Gopal case', in which editor S Gopal was arrested in the morning and set free by the court in the afternoon, is not the first one where the Tamil Nadu's once-reputed police force is seen as faltering in the eye of the law, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Countries with abundant resources are faring worse in terms of development than those with less.
Bibek Debroy highlights the importance of the Assam Rail Link Project.
India should plan its strategies on the assumption that the rightward swing will stay and the West will retreat into an economic fortress, says Nitin Desai.
Does Mrs Donald Trump realise that her immediate predecessor, Michelle Obama, is not the only hard act to follow, wonders Kanika Datta.
India is failing to take advantage of its important ally, Japan as much as it should, notes Mihir S Sharma.
According to recent official data here is how world leaders' salaries stack up.
