By Mayank Chhaya Chicago, Dec 22 (IANS) The Trump administrations less-than-subtle threat to stop aid to countries that voted against the United States for recognising Jerusalem as Israels capital is manifestly untenable. For one, the…
By Manoj Kumar The CBI Special Court’s 1,500 page verdict in the 2G case acquitting all the accused including former Telecom Minister A. Raja and Rajya Sabha MP M.K. Kanimozhi, has raised more questions than…
By Vinod Behl The year 2017 could well go down as one of the most painful for the bruised real estate and housing sector, reeling under the short-term disruptive impact of a series of reforms….
By Siddhartha Upadhyay India’s performance in the world of sports is a matter of concern — with some notable exceptions. It requires no rocket science to realise the simple fact that we perform badly because…
By Asim Khan New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) On the 13th day of the Mahabharata war, Dronacharya organised the Kaurava army into a “chakravyuh” formation to challenge the Pandavas. With the great warrior Arjuna away,…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Dec 19 (IANS) It was widely expected to be a crowning moment for the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab this year, but it was the Congress which took top honours. The…
By Frank F Islam Since the late 1990s, bilateral ties between India and the United States have blossomed under successive Republican and Democratic administrations. They have strengthened and deepened to such an extent that, on…
By Vikas Datta Title: Rani Padmavati — The Burning Queen; Author: Anuja Chandramouli; Publisher: Juggernaut; Pages: 240; Price: Rs 299 There could scarcely be any Indian historical/myhtological character presenting more delicacy in artistic depiction as…
By Amit Kapoor The Indian telecom industry is passing through complex times. It has been almost two decades since the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government heralded the telecom revolution with the formulation of the National Telecom…
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) More than half of December is gone, and this is a good time to not just make a to-do list for 2018 but also stick to it and complete it….
By Amulya Ganguli For the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to have struggled to cross the 100-seat mark in Gujarat when it was boasting about bagging 150 is suggestive of an undeniable downward turn in its…
By Andrew Hunter With Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Malcolm Turnbull approving a Memorandum of Understanding on sports between the two governments, it is time to explore the potential of sports diplomacy between Australia and…
By Vikas Datta There are just a handful of statesmen who have greatly influenced the course of the 20th century — for good or bad. But can we categorise leaders on this moral standard –…
By Subhash K. Jha Not only in 2017. This has been going on for some years. Akshay Kumar, the full-nationalistic package, blending the best of desh-bhakti with consumerism, represents that rare breed of star-actors who…
By C. Uday Bhaskar Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined India’s maritime potential and current profile in a commendable manner at the commissioning ceremony of INS Kalvari, a Scorpene-class diesel-electric submarine, in Mumbai on Thursday (December…
By Amulya Ganguli There will probably be a mixed reaction in the secular camp to Rahul Gandhi’s temple-hopping in Gujarat. To some, it may seem to be a negation of the Congress’s vaunted secular credentials…
(ATTN Editors: Beginning December 15, IANS will be running a series of Yearenders that look at the highs and lows in the areas of politics, business, economy, technology, lifestyle, literature and sports during the year…
By Nikhil Arora One obviously reads how social media and technology have the power to breed beliefs only qualifiable as post-truth. Rare have been occasions when I have witnessed this phenomenon first hand. The recent…
By Taponeel Mukherjee As lenders and borrowers in India grapple with heavy debt levels, asset sales have been a strategy used to pare debt levels by conglomerates. We think one aspect of asset sales that…
Dr. Shabnam Bashir & Dr. Sudhir Borgonha Cancer is a terrifying disorder which has touched almost everyone in some way or the other. With incidents of cancer rising across the globe, scientists have been frantically…