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By Yajurvindra Singh The Indian cricket team having convincingly won the first three ODI matches of the 5 match series against New Zealand seemed to be a side, as Virat Kohli beautifully summed up, prior…
By Yajurvindra Singh The Indian cricket team having convincingly won the first three ODI matches of the 5 match series against New Zealand seemed to be a side, as Virat Kohli beautifully summed up, prior…
By Naresh Kaushik The clock is ticking. Britain is set to leave the European Union on March 29, less than two months from now. Itll crash out without a deal if the two sides fail…
By Amulya Ganguli If the opinion polls are to be believed, India is heading for another period of coalitions. The reason is that the next general election is expected to produce a “hung” Parliament, where…
By Amit Kapoor As was expected, the interim Budget presented by Piyush Goyal was not a traditional vote-on-account by any means. Contrary to the election-year convention, a full Budget was introduced by the government to…
By Taponeel Mukherjee The current discourse on infrastructure focuses on the amount of funding needed for its creation. While the talk about the need for funding is essential, to indeed create more funding for infrastructure,…
By Subhash K. Jha If you were one of the three Khan superstars in Bollywood, then 2018 was definitely not your year. While Shah Rukh Khan has delivered what looks like a box office debacle…
Dr. Vidya Veldore The gene is a unit of inheritance of our DNA that determines our characteristics including physical, behavioural and clinical and the term ‘hereditary’ means passed from the genes of a parent to…
By Sunjay Kapur The Interim Budget 2019-20 is a document prepared with an eye on the country’s economic growth trajectory. The focus on robust infrastructure, along with rural electrification, is a welcome move. It will…
By Kama Maclean Richard Gardiner Casey is well known in Australia as one of its most eminent postwar statesmen. He served as its External Affairs Minister from 1951-60, forging Australia’s foreign policy and later, at…
By Rajdeep Pathak Is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi relevant today? Or has the medallion of the Mahatma – which Gandhi himself never wanted – overshadowed the persona of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi? It was Gandhi, who gave…
By Vinod Behl In a way, this year’s interim budget, the last from the present NDA government before the Lok Sabha elections, is set against a similar backdrop as its first (albeit not full) budget…
By Anil K. Rajvanshi The nation will, on January 30, observe Mahatma Gandhis death anniversary. This is also the year that we are celebrating Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary. We should remember that the greatest apostle…
By Arun Kejriwal Markets opened with gains on Monday and then lost ground on three of the four trading days thereafter. They say a week is a long time and this was truly so this…
By Vinod Mirani If ever the film industry’s existence has been acknowledged in India and its governments, it is now. The film industry made a representation to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while he was…
By Yajurvindra Singh Sporting heroes have been glamourized from the ancient Roman times and continue till today. The feats of the famous gladiator, Spartacus or the charioteer Benhur are stories that still rekindle the glory…
By D C Pathak The new year begins for India on a note of achievement as far as our international relations go and also significant success in checkmating the designs of an adversary next door…
By Amulya Ganguli Is Priyanka Vadra the brahmastra (the ultimate weapon) of Rahul Gandhi directed only at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or is one of the Congress president’s targets also the Samajwadi Party (SP)-Bahujan…
By Taponeel Mukherjee With the rapid urbanisation and growing energy consumption in India, the trend of higher demand for urban housing and energy is here to stay. While urban residential real estate has seen a…
By Amit Kapoor After the surprising state assembly results of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, the upcoming interim Budget is quite unlikely to be a traditional vote-on-account. It is a common election-year convention that the…
By Saeed Naqvi The image of Priyanka Gandhi that has stayed with me is of her campaigning for her mother and brother in Rae Bareli and Amethi in April-May 2014. It was a desperate bid…