The controversy generated over the invite extended to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to address the India Economic Forum at The Wharton School of the ...
06:57 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Being termed as West Bengal's Gujarat Summit, which wrapped up after a successful show on Saturday last week, the Trinamool government's 'Bengal Leads' conclave has ...
05:13 PM, Jan 15, 2013
With the death of Pandit Ravi Shankar, passes an era of Hindustani classical music - an era which saw the Indian musical artform going global. ...
12:29 PM, Dec 12, 2012
It has been just a year and a half that the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government assumed power in West Bengal and the fault lines within the party rank and file are already beginning to show. ...
01:03 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Gurgaon: A lot has been read into numbers when it comes to India's growth story. While India Inc has usually welcomed high percentage growth numbers as the high-point of private-public partnership, downward revision of growth rate has invited brickbats from the industry and media alike. But numbers very often mask reality. Where as the question for a country like India should have been prosperity and redistributive equity, somehow the discourse...
01:32 PM, Nov 08, 2012
At the most stimulating session of the World Economic Forum for India 2012 on the opening Wednesday, captains of the Indian and international industry and the Indian government agreed on the fundamental premise that faster economic growth was not just essential for the success of business but also to ensure distributive equity among India's people. The session titled 'rebooting India' comes at a time when the country's high growth rates...
02:58 PM, Nov 07, 2012
The World Economic Forum India 2012 meet being held in Gurgaon from November 6 to November 8 holds special significance not just for India but for the rest of the world. As Europe continues to face massive liquidity crunch, a problem which is only accentuated by negligible or negative growth experienced by key European economies (with the exception of Germany), the world's growth engine is increasingly looking at China, India,...
02:47 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Bangalore: When Carlos Santana, number 15 on the Rolling Stones magazine list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, took the stage at an open air concert venue in Bangalore on Friday evening, the small trickle of people that had started pouring in since afternoon had reached a healthy crowd of over 3,000 people. Dressed in a white shirt and a pair of white trousers, the pioneer of rock-latin-jazz...
11:27 AM, Oct 27, 2012
Indian Air Force, the world's fourth largest air force, has just completed 80 glorious years. What's the vision of the force for the future? Chat with Tathagata Bhattacharya, Editor, Special Editions at IBNLive, to know more. ...
12:58 PM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: It is said that the rocker quartet from the British dockside town of Liverpool, The Beatles, started their big-league journey exactly fifty years back when on September 4, 1962, they recorded their first single 'Love Me Do' at the iconic Abbey Road Studios of EMI in London. Accordingly, tributes have been pouring in from all and sundry. People on social networking sites have had their profile pictures replaced...
01:41 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Bhagat Singh was born on September 28, 1907, in Banga village of Jaranwala Tehsil in the Lyallpur district of Punjab province of undivided India. His birthplace today falls in Pakistan. Bhagat Singh was a revolutionary freedom fighter and one of the major inspirational figures of the Indian Independence movement. Though briefly affiliated to MK Gandhi's movement of non-violent struggle, Singh later became disillusioned with Gandhi's philosophy. Brutality of...
01:39 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Gurcharan Das' new book "India Grows At Night" postulates a liberal case for a strong India, for a strong leadership and system that ensures swift governance and justice. Das' work is rooted in the enlightenment philosophy of 18th century thinkers like Adam Smith and John Locke. So Das' strong state is not the autocratic states of Stalin or Mao and not even Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew. The book is...
03:18 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: India's Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) has conclusively got past its crucial make-or-break stage. The programme, that was envisioned under the leadership of Mrs Indira Gandhi in the late 1970s and was started in the early 1980s, has been further consolidated with an exponentially expanded plan in the latter years to include every tactical and strategic stand-off platforms deemed necessary for the nation's defensive and offensive abilities....
03:55 PM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: Now that Kanpur-based cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been charged with sedition for his cartoons that 'mocked' the country's political class, Parliament and the national emblem, one has to bear in mind that the word "sedition" does not actually figure anywhere in the Indian Constitution. It is an offence against the state as enumerated in the Indian Penal Code which is an 1860 Act ratified by the British to...
12:07 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Los Angeles/New Delhi: An NRI couple's bid to get justice for their son failed in the US as a Los Angeles Federal Court jury did not find the argument of the party of Bedabrata Pain and Shonali Bose conclusive enough against Wahl Clipper Corp viz-a-viz the couple's elder son, Ishan Bose-Pain's tragic death while shaving himself with Wahl's Groomsman Beard and Mustache Trimmer in the evening of September 2, 2010....
09:41 AM, Sep 03, 2012
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