New Delhi: Agni-V, the 5000-km range surface-to-surface Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads, has catapulted India into an extremely select club of countries possessing such a deadly weapons platform. Agni-V gives India the much-needed muscle and a strong deterrence against its nuclear-armed adversaries as the missile can not only target every city of China, but is also capable of reaching Australia, Eastern Europe, North Eastern and...
05:04 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: There is no business like the business of war. A war involves the use of weapons and its business is not only very dangerous, but also very rewarding. India with its hostile neighbours, large defence force and burgeoning economy provides the perfect setting for a thriving weapons platforms market. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a global think tank that tracks the defence expenditure of all...
07:11 PM, Apr 03, 2012
The business of news can be very demanding, uncompromising and extremely cruel. What defines news depends not only on the gravity of the incident, but ...
05:07 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: It is proving to be a very tough week in office for the Manmohan Singh Government with the Supreme Court delivering two strong verdicts within a space of two days related to 2G spectrum allocations. While on Tuesday the Supreme Court had observed that the sanction by a competent authority for the prosecution of a public servant had to be granted within a specified time frame, on Thursday...
05:51 PM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: After clearing the Lok Sabha hurdle the amended Lokpal Bill has been placed in the Rajya Sabha, which will debate and vote on it on Thursday. The Lokpal Bill faces a tough test in the Upper House of Parliament where the Opposition enjoys a clear majority and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government has been trying to muster up the supports of the MPs. UPA floor managers...
07:55 PM, Dec 28, 2011
If one were to twist Samuel Johnsons famous quote "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and fit it into the Indian context then "politics is the last refuge of a scoundrel", will be a very apt commentary on the current state of affairs in the country. Though the first republic and democratic state was in Vaishali, Bihar almost 600 years before Christ was born, yet in modern day...
11:59 AM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: There is no love lost between the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance and the Opposition as the two sides are involved in a bitter battle of nerves during the ongoing winter session of Parliament. Issues like price rise, corruption, black money, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail have given enough ammunition to the Opposition even as the Congress is finding that its own MPs have raised the stake on...
01:02 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: As expected the winter session of Parliament got off to a stormy start on Tuesday even as the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government plans to pass 31 bills and introduce 23 others including the Lokpal Bill and the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill to counter the charge that it has been soft on tackling corruption. The Government plans to pass two Bills every day during the 21 sittings...
04:09 PM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: The battle for Uttar Pradesh has well and truly begun with all the major political parties in the state sounding their bugle for what is expected to a fiercely contested four-way battle for securing power in Lucknow after the 2012 Assembly elections. Uttar Pradesh with 403 Assembly and 80 Lok Sabha seats is politically the most crucial state in Indian politics and the winner of the 2012 Assembly...
05:07 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: As Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patriarch LK Advani embarks on yet another rath yatra, the contrast with his first one in 1990 cannot be starker. When Advani started his all-India tour during his first yatra on September 25, 1990 from Somnath in Gujarat to drum up support for the construction of a Ram Temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, his party was just one of the many Opposition...
06:49 PM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: There seems to be no end to the ongoing battle between Gujarat Governor Kamala Beniwal and Congress on one side and Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the other side. Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been alleging that the Governor has been trying to create problems for the state government by her unilateral actions while claiming that her moves have the approval of top Congress leaders....
01:03 PM, Sep 26, 2011
New Delhi: Even as the Government is trying hard to come up with a Lokpal Bill draft that will satisfy Anna Hazare and his associates, the 74-year-old social activist is continuing with his protest fast for a strong anti-corruption legislation. Hazare's hunger strike entered its ninth day on August 24 and he has announced that he will continue his fast for nine more days if the Government does not concede...
05:53 PM, Aug 24, 2011
New Delhi: Two accidents within a span of few hours in which at least 66 people have been killed and over 300 injured once again expose the widely held belief that Indian Railways is not on the right track. With no full-time railway minister since May 2011 and several key posts in the organisation vacant, tragedies like the Howrah-Kalka Mail derailment and Guwahati-Puri Express crash were just waiting to happen....
01:38 PM, Jul 11, 2011
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh politics is never short of drama and as the state moves into election mode, parties are busy finding new issues to target their opposition with. The recent spurt in alleged cases of rape and sexual assaults have come a golden opportunity for the Opposition, particularly the Congress, to take on the Chief Minister Mayawati. Mayawati is certainly feeling the heat as incidents of crime against women,...
08:03 PM, Jun 21, 2011
New Delhi: Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdev and the civil society are the new opposition parties as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left Front have been relegated to the background in the anti-corruption crusade. Hazare and Ramdev have launched a major agitation against corruption and black money, and forced the United Progressive Alliance Government, which is already facing a lot of flak for not doing enough on the twin...
04:53 PM, Jun 17, 2011
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