By Saeed Naqvi Arnab Goswami of Times Now Television runs his show rather like an animal trainer in an old fashioned circus or an Al Capone-like gangster terrorising his minions, which is what the panelists…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the Akhil Bharatiya Prachaarya Sammelan, in New Delhi on Feb 12, 2016. (Photo: IANS) By Himadri Ghosh Never before in economic history would 15 million bank accounts…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) If the news of two Delhi brothers who were so hooked to video games that they became too lazy to even go to washroom and were treated…
By Sarwar Kashani New Delhi/Srinagar, Feb 20 (IANS) Its location makes it vulnerable, more prone to being occupied by suicide attackers for a possible long-drawn gunfight, a senior police officer had once said with some…
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar addresses a press conference in Chandigarh, on Feb 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Feb 20 (IANS) Over the past month, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar…
By Rajendra Shende Perhaps never before in the history of America have its citizens mourned so deeply the death of a Supreme Court justice and at the same time vibrantly rejoiced with prospects of finally…
By Hilton Ratcliffe On September 14, 2015, the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) observed a “chirp” lasting about a fifth of a second (GW150914). Analyses of the signal suggest that it was produced by the…
New Delhi: A section of lawyers assaulted JNU students and journalists at the Patiala House in New Delhi on Feb 15, 2016. (Photo: IANS) By Amulya Ganguli It was inevitable that the kind of muscular…
By Amit Bhandari A $48-billion (Rs 3.26 lakh crore) penalty claimed by the US government from Volkswagen for cheating on diesel car emissions is about 200 times as large as the $225 million (Rs 1,500…
Delhi Police Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi addresses during an annual press conference in New Delhi on Jan.3, 2014. (Photo: IANS) By Ashish Mishra New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The arrest of JNU student leader Kanhaiya…
By L. Subramanyan Against the backdrop of what is happening in India in reference to the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) episode, there is this massive debate in terms of who is a nationalist and who…
By Nury Vittachi A dog has learned to read. Fernie, a two-year-old labrador from the UK, can read four words and is working on another 20, says his owner, a teacher. I was impressed, as…
By Vatsal Srivastava Global financial markets have started to price in a global recession since the beginning of 2016. The Fed raised rates for the first time in almost a decade but the price action…
By Sarwar Kashani New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) The escalating tension arising from an obscure meeting on Kashmir held at the JNU here has spiralled into an acrimonious nationalism-versus-intolerance debate. The row has pitted Hindu…
By Himadri Ghosh Raju Rai was 17 when his mother was diagnosed with cancer, forcing him to leave his village in Jharkhands overwhelmingly rural Jamtara district in search of a livelihood. He’s 22 now and…
New Delhi: JNU students stage a demonstration at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Feb 16, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Islamabad, Feb 16 (IANS) The “new, ugly face of Modi’s India” can be seen in the…
Kolkata: Left Front Chairman Biman Bose, CPI-M State secretary Surja Kanta Mishra, General Secretary of the (CPIM) Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury, leader Prakash Karat during CPI(M) state committee meeting in Kolkata, on…
By Amit Kapoor The union Government has seen two important announcements in the recent past. Under the flagship Smart City Mission, it recently announced the first tranche of cities which are to be developed into…
Media and political brouhaha about David Coleman Headley notwithstanding, the recent admission of the Pakistan-American terrorist about his already known terror links actually mean little to India’s Mumbai attack investigations — not least in New…
By Ashish Mishra New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) The AAP begins its second year in office in Delhi Sunday, earning, surprisingly, more bouquets than brickbats despite a tumultuous period when it was at war both…