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Modi's Second Term: What the First 100 Days Reveal Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third term began in June 2024, yet the first hundred days of his new cabinet reveal a government focused more on consolidating economic ga...
India's Space Programme: Chandrayaan Success and Beyond This article examines india's space programme: chandrayaan success and beyond in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview India's Space...
India-China Border: Five Years After Galwan, Normalisation Remains Elusive Five years after the June 2020 Galwan Valley clash that killed 20 Indian soldiers, the India-China border remains tense. Recent meetings between...
Criticism of India's democratic institutions is legitimate. India is not above criticism. No democracy is. But there is a pattern in how that criticism is deployed — particularly in Western media and certain internationa...
Nobody planned this. There was no government committee that sat down in 2015 and said: let's make the world practice yoga, start cooking with turmeric, watch Indian films, and download Ayurveda apps. There was no ministr...
India's higher education system has a story it loves to tell about itself. The IITs are world-class. The IIMs produce management talent that runs global corporations. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences trains do...
Most of the noise in India's public conversation is about things that happened last week. Here are five things that are reshaping India's position in the world over the next decade — and that aren't getting nearly enough...
There is a peculiar psychological tic in Indian strategic thinking — and, to be fair, in Western strategic thinking too — that treats China as an ever-ascending, essentially invincible force against which everyone else i...
Indian political framework built after independence is losing its relevance to govern a complex and diverse country. Six and a half decade of democratic exercise has generated more hypocrites than true leaders. Voters ha...
An enterprising group of ten volunteers at IIT-B, which created a research tool in November with the specific purpose of trawling tens of thousands of social media posts to measure public opinion, has helped shape the Aa...
Expressing serious concern over the religious conversions taking place in the country, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday urged Prime Minister ( to break his silence over the issue and give a strong statement against th...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's estranged wife, Jashodaben, has filed an RTI application asking for an explanation of the sort of security that she gets from the government. After Mr Modi was elected in May, Jashodaben wa...
A delegation of 22 Brahmins has been flown from India to Muscat for the well being of the current Sultan Of Oman. He is suffering from colon cancer and has been receiving medical care for a while. 72-year-old Sultan Qabo...
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Mann Ki Baat — his monthly radio address to the nation — in October 2014, it was a deliberate choice of medium that said something about his communication instincts and his poli...
AK45 and AAP- a new brand of politics in India written by ( There are certain times in any nation's history which define and change its direction and today is definitely one of those for India. What we are seeing today i...
Tarun Tejpal, the highly acclaimed editor of Tehelka is under huge suspicions. The nation is watching the case with interest. He has been accused of raping a young colleague. Following the allegation, he has stepped down...
In Bangalore a woman was attacked in an ATM when she was trying to make a withdrawal. This happened at 7: 30 AM not in the wee hours of night. The CCTV camera of the ATM has full footage of the man attacking the woman af...
A 72-year-old sadhu is accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Police go to his ashram for interrogation- baba makes the police wait for almost eight hours! Baba claims he is in meditation and the police listened....
Another gang-rape in Mumbai A young journalist has been gang raped in Mumbai. This 23-year-old woman was with a male colleague shooting for an assignment. She works for an English publication in Mumbai. On the pretext of...
Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh addressed the nation on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan to protect the girls and women of the country. He said, "The festival of Raksha Banana is an occasion to strengthen the bonds...
Gujarat CM Narendra Modi is made the chief of BJP campaign committee for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. It implies that Modi is certainly not the choice of the party for Prime Minister. For a long time BJP ‘s leadership has b...
The accumulation of documented rape cases in India through 2012 — each one individual, each one involving a specific woman's specific suffering — created a kind of unbearable arithmetic that the December Delhi gang rape...
This British girl was on her first ever-foreign trip to India. This now is the last trip of her lifetime. The eight-year-old girl was visiting her grandparents in Punjab, India. She was admitted in a hospital for dehydra...
Among many other things, Indians first need to unlearn what they believe are the rights of women and give back their right to live freely, without biases, without being judged … ( yes it is definitely painful but not rea...
Born on March 13, 1980, Feroze Varun Gandhi is the only son of the late Sanjay Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi. Varun was 100 days old when his father died, and 4 years old when his grandmother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandh...
ventilator," Verka, who was instrumental in securing visas for four members of Sarabjit's family from the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on Saturday, told media. Sarabjit's lawyer Awais Sheikh told a news channel...
A driver of a school bus was arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl in Bikaner, police said today. The girl, a class X student of a private school here has charged her school bus driver with raping her and lodg...
Nirbhaya's sacrifice, that rocked the entire nation, seemingly went in vain as her own home district Ballia witnessed abduction and gang rape of a girl. A 15-year-old local girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang raped by...
Union home ministerSushilkumar Shinde on Monday made a statement in both the Houses of Parliamentgiving details of the rape of a five-year-old girl as well as the police response to it. However, he sought to underline th...
Saying that she was "shocked" about the rape of a five-year-old in Delhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha ( demanded the girl should be immediately shifted to AIIMS. "I am terribly shocked to know about the details...
After the Delhi gangrape incident, the television media in India hasn’t stopped portraying itself as the saviour of women; as the one entity that asked all those tough questions without which crimes against women would h...
Days after ( (WIEF) dropped Gujaratchief minister Narendra Modi as its keynote speaker, ( chairman, Manipal Global, turned down the invitation to speak at the annual event, saying that he is upset at the way India is tre...
Italy and India seemed headed for a standoff on Monday after the former declared that two of its naval guards who are being prosecuted for killing two Indian fishermen in Indian waters while on anti-piracy duty, will not...
The rape and murder of three young sisters in Maharashtra has shocked the state. "The incident is extremely deplorable and painful. I appeal to the people to maintain calm and cooperate with the law-enforcers," Chief Min...
Anoushka Shankar, daughter of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, on Wednesday said she was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, at the hands of a man her parents trusted implicitly. Sagarika Ghose(IBN) discusses with a pan...
Justice Bhaktavatsala , a Karnataka High Court judge was in limelight when he had said -( The case involved a 28 year old woman getting beaten by the husband on a regular basis . He told the wife to go home because the h...
The National Commission for Women and some parliamentarians on Monday came out in support of Kashmir's first all-girls rock band 'Pragaash' whose singing was termed as "un-Islamic" by the Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir...
David Coleman Headley was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison Thursday primarily for his role in planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed more than 160 people, including six Americans. Mr. Headley, a Pa...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The statistic was stark and it circulated widely in Indian and international media: a rape was reported in India every 22 minutes, according to National Crime Records Bureau data. The figure, troubling enough in itself,...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Two Mumbai women were today ordered by a court to 14 days in jail for their post on Facebook on the shutdown of Mumbai on Sunday, the day of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's funeral. However, they were bailed within hou...
A student at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore was raped on the university campus, in a crime that highlighted the persistent safety failures at India's most prestigious educational institutions an...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Victims of Salman Khan's reckless driving have not been paid . In 2002 he had run over some people , while driving his land cruiser .This had resulted in killing one person and severely injuring three people. It had take...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Governance, Corruption, and Institutional Strength Good governance is foundational to societal progress. When governance is weak and corruption is endemic, even well-intentioned policies fail. The Corruption Challenge In...
Henna Bakshi was awarded the Geeta Chopra award, the nation's highest award for bravery shown by girls when she was 12 year old . A decade ago, she was in news for getting the highest bravery award, today again she is in...
The Indian government's decision in September 2012 to allow foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail — permitting international retailers like Walmart and Carrefour to establish majority-owned operations in India...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Aseem Trivedi, the political cartoonist who was arrested in September 2012 on charges of sedition and obscenity for cartoons he had drawn in support of the India Against Corruption movement led by Anna Hazare, became an...
India trains more doctors than almost any country on earth, and loses a significant proportion of them to emigration — to the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and other destinations where compensatio...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Over a dozen suspected workers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) allegedly ransacked a theatre here today, protesting against the screening of a Bhojpuri film, district police said. According to police, the group o...
A senior police officer and a crucial witness in Aarushi-Hemraj murder case on Thursday deposed before a special CBI court here that he faced pressure to suppress the rape angle in the postmortem of the teenager. Former...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The Income Tax Department's decision to strip the Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust — the charitable organization associated with yoga guru Ramdev Baba — of its charitable status sent a clear signal that the exponential commercia...
Govt increases SMS limit to 20 with immediate effect After checking the use of SMSes to prevent spreading of rumours which had led to mass exodus of northeastern people from certain states, the government on Thursday inc...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
In a shocking case, a 20-day-old baby girl died after her father allegedly fed her donkey's milk laced with poison at Nelamangala taluk in Bangalore district, police said today. The 25-year-old man, a mechanic, was arres...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Indian leaders appealed for calm on Friday as natives of northeastern India now living in southern cities left in droves for a third day over fears that violence in the northeastern state of Assam would spread south. Sta...
Almost 60 hours after they fled Bangalore fearing attacks by Muslims, the first batch of about 7,000 passengers from the Northeast arrived at the Guwahati railway station this morning. The two special trains and the regu...
Authorities are investigating whether the massacre at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee could be linked to last year's unsolved murders of two elderly Sikh men in Elk Grove, Calif. Elk Grove detectives have been in contact wi...
Kehar Singh Gill went to El Paso to look for a bride. A Mexican woman who worked in the cotton fields that he farmed in California's Imperial Valley had told him that she had eligible nieces there. Gill got the address w...
Amid increasing cases of violence and lack of security against their community, 60 Hindu families from Balochistan and Sindh have decided to migrate to India,...
Attacked With Acid If Females Are Found Wearing Jeans Posters put by an outfit in the Jharkhand capital have threatened acid attacks on girls and women who wear jeans or do not wear a dupatta. The police said it could be...
This is a tale of love , religion and corrupt politics of India. Such a shame to see Anuradha Bali's life end this way. =========================================================================================== Fiza Moh...
Sanjeev Nanda, convicted in the BMW hit-and-run case, today got a reprieve from the Supreme Court which refused to enhance the quantum of punishment of two years already undergone by him and directed him to do community...
In the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, a forensic lab scientist told a special court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday that the blood stains found on the teen's clothes and her bed's mattress matched her blood group. He said a...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The northeastern Indian state of Assam descended into ethnic violence as clashes between indigenous Bodo tribal communities and Bengali Muslim settlers — many of them alleged illegal immigrants from Bangladesh — killed d...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Pranab Mukherjee will be sworn in as the country's 13th President on Wednesday at a special ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament. Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia will administer the oath to Mukherjee at 11.30 am...
Amar Jyoti Kalita, the main accused in the Guwahati molestation case which shocked the nation earlier this month, has surrendered before the police in Varanasi. He is presently in the custody of Uttar Pradesh police, TV...
RTI activist and Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi today claimed that the recent molestation of a girl allegedly instigated by the reporter of a local news channel may have been part of a greater conspiracy to tarnish the ima...
Last week, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) took the unusual step of removing from service a Maharashtra cadre IAS officer, L V Nilesh, who has been on unauthorised leave for over a decade and is now worki...
Recent data released by National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) rates Delhi as the most unsafe place for children. A total of 33,098 cases of crime against children have been reported in the country in 2011 as compared to 26...
When Aamir Khan launched Satyamev Jayate on Doordarshan and Star Plus in May 2012, the expectations were enormous — and the early episodes delivered. The show's debut episode on female foeticide, featuring real families...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The Mumbai police crime branch will try to convince a Delhi court once again on to give them the custody of 26/11 handler Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal. They had failed to convince the court last week....
The story of contemporary India is the story of coming to terms with the legacy of two families: the Gandhis and the Ambanis. Taken literally, this statement is, of course, absurd. But it is often a summary way of thinki...
When Sachin Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2012, becoming one of the very few sportspeople to receive a nomination to the upper house of India's Parliament, the question of his entitlements as a Member of...
Sachin Tendulkar to take oath as Rajya Sabha member today Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar will on Monday take oath as Rajya Sabha member in the chambers of RS Chairperson Hamid Ansari. Sachin was nominated to the Upper H...
HC reduces prison term for man who sodomised baby The Bombay High Court has reduced punishment for a man convicted of sodomising a 10-month-old girl child, accepting his contention that he lost control over himself as he...
In the wake of the Andhra Pradesh High Court order striking down the 4.5 per cent sub-quota to minorities within OBC reservation, IITs have decided to abide by the ruling, "ignoring" the quota provision till further lega...
India's Supreme Court ruled that sex obtained through a false promise of marriage constitutes rape under the Indian Penal Code, a judgment with significant practical implications for how consent is understood in a societ...
The India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway, a 1,360-kilometer road project connecting Moreh in Manipur to Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar, has been under construction and repeated revision since its formal agreement i...
The Parliament today approved a Bill to protect children below 18 from sexual abuse, set up special courts for speedy trial of cases against them and provide stringent punishment extending up to life term for offenders....
In Anand district in Gujarat, a village school made national news for what was, in the context of rural Indian education, a remarkable amenity: air-conditioned classrooms. In a country where many rural schools lack funct...
When Aamir Khan's television show Satyamev Jayte launched in May 2012, one of its most discussed features was the decision to air the program without commercial breaks. For viewers accustomed to the rhythm of Indian tele...
Among the many institutional legacies that independent India inherited from its colonial past, few were as persistent or as quietly corrosive as the "buddy system" within the Indian Army — a practice in which senior offi...
Indian political circles have rarely been short of colorful anecdotes, and the story of BJP chief Nitin Gadkari's visit to Bal Thackeray carried a particular edge — one that said something about the Shiv Sena patriarch's...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
In a case that exposed the intersection of child marriage, bureaucratic rigidity, and institutional indifference to victims, a young woman in India was denied entry into the civil services not because of her own failings...
India's successful test launch of the Agni-V ballistic missile on April 19, 2012, marked a significant moment in the country's strategic defense posture. The missile, developed by the Defence Research and Development Org...
The special CBI court in Ghaziabad had issued the warrant against Nupur for failing to appear before it. The judge has fixed April 18 as the next date of hearing and directed that Nupur be produced before the court on th...
Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma and the vice-chiefs of the three services today failed to convince a parliament panel with their answers to questions arising out of The Indian Express report on non-notified troop mo...
An Indian couple have had their children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them with their hands and sleeping in the same bed as them. Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their...
On February 13, 2012, India crossed a threshold that few had believed possible a decade earlier: the country marked one full year without a single recorded case of polio. The World Health Organization removed India from...
Indian intelligence agencies warned of a disturbing development: the Pakistan-based terror organization Lashkar-e-Taiba was reportedly recruiting and training female operatives specifically to carry out attacks on Indian...
When Communications Minister Kapil Sibal called in representatives from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft to discuss the removal of content deemed offensive to religious and political sensibilities, he ignited a deb...
Going a step ahead of merely condemning the outrageous NATO attack on a military outpost in Mohmand, the Defence Committee of Cabinet (DCC), on Sunday, decided to close with immediate effect the NATO/ISAF logistics suppl...
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was today slapped at a public function by a young man who claimed he was angry with corruption and price rise. 71-year-old Pawar, who went to a literary function at a public audito...
In a big-ticket policy decision, the cabinet on Thursday opened the high-growth retail sector to foreign chains. That means people can soon shop at international department stores such as Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco in...
जानता नहीं मेरा बाप कौन है ... My mornings are sort of incomplete if I don’t devour ‘ The Times Of India ‘ along with my tea . Yesterday’s headlines of Manu Sharma getting a life sentence made me add an extra spoon of su...
A candid — and deeply troubling — survey of attitudes toward Pakistan's civil services revealed what many Pakistanis have long said privately: that a significant portion of the population views government employment not...
When the Commonwealth heads of government meet in Australia later this month, one prominent leader is almost certain to be conspicuously absent: India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. India is a strong backer of the asso...
These) various pulls and pressures mean that when it comes to policy, the urgent wins over the important, tactic triumphs over strategy, and patronage over public good." -Nandan Nilekani in his 2008 book( Nilekani had a...
If the July 2008 cash-for-vote scam was sensational, the arrest of former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh in the case was even more dramatic. When special judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal began the hearing at 10am in a jam...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
It all ended in a photo frame moment. The presence of a large crowd in the agitation ground, thanks to the visit of Bollywood superstars earlier in the day, waving the Tricolour, Anna Hazare on the dais wearing a freshly...
Vinod Rai has a good first serve. He takes full advantage of his over six-foot frame to smash the ball across the court. The opponent, a colleague of his, has to receive the ball at an uncomfortable height. It is not com...
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist who killed 77 people in twin attacks on July 22, 2011 — a bombing in Oslo and a shooting massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya — left behind a 1,500-pag...
Transparent Government, via Webcams in India Little Brother is watching you. Oommen Chandy, the chief minister of Kerala. That is the premise for the webcam that a top government official here has installed in his office...
Ten days before he was assassinated in January, my father, Salman Taseer, sent out a tweet about an Indian rocket that had come down over the Bay of Bengal: "Why does India make fools of themselves messing in space techn...
3 bomb blasts in Mumbai; 17 killed, 81 injured At least 17 people have been killed and 81 others injured in three bomb blasts that rocked Mumbai on Wednesday evening in the crowded Dadar, Opera House and Zaveri Bazar are...
NEW DELHI: More than a month after DMK leader MK Stalin had met his half-sister and party MP Kanimozhi, he paid her a visit in the women's jail for about half an hour on Monday afternoon. He was accompanied by DMK Parlia...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
With no signs of Ramdev relenting, authorities today cancelled the permission granted to his yoga camp and teams of Delhi Police stormed the Ramlila venue late tonight to bring to an end the stand-off between him and the...
Baba Ramdev, the yoga teacher who built a media empire on the backs of his early morning television broadcasts and grew it into a business and political influence operation, found himself at the center of a new controver...
They were, until recently, among the most visible women in Indian corporate and political circles — accompanying their husbands to Davos, attending charity galas in Delhi, appearing in the society pages of magazines that...
The occasion of Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Gilani's official visit to China was an opportunity for both parties to stake a claim to a post-United States future as the closest of allies, with a shared commitment to a s...
A federal trial in Chicago provided new details about the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, as prosecutors presented evidence obtained through American investigative channels that India had been unable...
Mosques in four cities observed the Namaz-e-Janaza or funeral prayers for the liquidated al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden on Friday, but not all Muslims agreed with the idea behind such invocations. Tagged with jumma, the...
It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend. Where have yo...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad — a city known as a haven for retired Pakistani military officers and home to the prestigious Pakistan Military Academy — has placed Pakistan's government and in...
The compound is a few hundred metres from the the Pakistan Military Academy, an elite military training centre, which is Pakistan's equivalent to Britain's Sandhurst, according to the BBC's M Ilyas Khan who visited the a...
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Within days of Osama bin Laden's death in a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, hundreds of supporters gathered for what was described as the first public rally in the country held in his honor — a demonstration...
It started with a courier's name. Senior White House officials said early Monday that the trail that led to Osama bin Laden began before 9/11, before the terror attacks that brought bin Laden to prominence. The trail war...
Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of al-Qaeda and the man behind the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, is dead. He was killed in a nighttime raid by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs at a compound...
Reports in 2011 that Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani had privately encouraged Afghan President Hamid Karzai to consider China as an alternative strategic patron to the United States — to, in effect, pivot his...
Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare, (Marathi: ????? ???? ??????? ?????) (born 15 January 1940), popularly known as Anna Hazare, is an Indian social activist who is especially recognized for his contribution to the development of...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The Aarushi Talwar murder case — in which fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found dead in her Noida home in May 2008, along with the family's domestic worker Hemraj — had by 2011 become a byword for everything wrong with Ind...
It is almost two years since the German Government had passed on the names and bank account details of eighteen Indians who had stashed their alleged ill-gotten wealth in the LGT bank of Liechtenstein, a well-known tax h...
Governance, Corruption, and Institutional Strength Good governance is foundational to societal progress. When governance is weak and corruption is endemic, even well-intentioned policies fail. The Corruption Challenge In...
The story of Indian diplomat in UK, Anil Verma- IAS, and his wife Paromita Verma is getting more ugly by each passing day. The daily mail reports that Anil used to boast to his wife about his diplomatic status and how no...
In an ironic way Tehelka has done a service to the nation by showcasing the passionate speech at The Azadi conference organized in Delhi. Going to the capital of India and arguing for secession is itself amazing, what's...
Ratan Tata gives a very comprehensive response to allegations against Tata's for using Radia and influencing policies. He does it in style by citing Lobbying efforts of Rajeev and how he parked himself at Taj to do that...
A frank admission from a senior Indian security official — that authorities were actively monitoring approximately 7,000 phones at any given time — landed in India's political discourse in late 2010 like a stone in still...
In the weeks following WikiLeaks' mass release of US diplomatic cables in late 2010, Pakistani media outlets published what they claimed were cables revealing damaging American assessments of India — cables that turned o...
CBI on Wednesday carried out raids on the residences of former Telecom Minister A Raja in Delhi and Chennai along with the residences of four top Telecom ministry officials. The raids are being carried out at the residen...
The structural reasons for corruption's persistence in India are more instructive than moral explanations—the problem is not that Indians are uniquely dishonest but that the incentive architecture of Indian governance, a...
In one of the biggest victories in India's electoral history, the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP alliance on Wednesday attained a landslide three-fourth majority in Bihar, bagging 206 of the 243-Assembly seats. JD(U) on its...
India and Pakistan's aggressive border closing ceremony has been stopped after soldiers complained the high goose-stepping was wrecking their knee joints and causing foot injuries. The move has been agreed by Pakistani a...
Bobby Jindal's announcement that he would not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 was received in political circles as a pragmatic recognition of the electoral calendar rather than a retreat. The Louisian...
When the Chinese conglomerate made its offer for the mid-sized British engineering firm, the British employees gathered in the canteen to hear a reassuring presentation from the new owners' representatives and came away...
In the tea shops and the shikaras on Dal Lake, in the conversations that visitors to Kashmir have been having with local residents for decades, a recurring theme emerges: the sense among many Kashmiris that their relatio...
Women power pushes up Bihar poll turnout Greater participation of women in the democratic exercise pushed up the voting percentage in Bihar Assembly Elections this time by around seven per cent compared to five years ago...
