Vajpayee had always felt that India must act with conviction and panache.He decided that, irrespective of the attendant risks, he would undertake what many felt was a precarious course.A......
'They don't have enough food to feed these people; they get stale daal-chawal; there isn't enough water to bathe or for morning chores; the toilets are filthy; no fans inside the rooms. They......
Thirty years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, coerced collective amnesia envelops the Chinese nation about that horrific event.Claude Arpi glances back at how the student uprising could have......
Moni Chadha was with Lal Bahadur Shastri in Tashkent. He counters colourful conspiracy theories with sobering facts.Manavi Kapur reports. Photograph: Ted West/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty......
'The travesty of recent Indian strategic thought is it emerges not from our brains, but from whatever part of the anatomy that secretes the prickliest hormones,' says Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: A......
In July alone, 2.5 tonnes of gold coins were imported so far from South Korea under zero-duty facility If industry experts are to be believed, the recently implemented goods and services tax (GST)......
Vijay Mallya, the fugitive liquor baron sought by India for defaulting on several bank loans amounting to nearly Rs 9,000 crore, on Tuesday claimed he has “enough evidence” to plead his......
GAAR will not override the recently revised double taxation avoidance agreements with Mauritius and Singapore. The finance ministry sent positive signals to foreign portfolio investors on Friday by......
The agency will now proceed to attach Mallya's assets even as the court is expected to declare him a proclaimed offender after he skipped the court's summons. The Enforcement Directorate is......
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya has been asked to appear before a PMLA court here on July 29 in connection with its money laundering probe against him in an alleged bank loan fraud case with the special......
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday IMAGE: Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee became the first female athlete to be named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) at an Asian Games.......
Vajpayee had always felt that India must act with conviction and panache.He decided that, irrespective of the attendant risks, he would undertake... ...