New Delhi: As the world braces for a probable Greek exit from the Eurozone as part of the latest development in the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, it is prudent to take stock of the situation and of the effect it might have on India. It is only wise to be prepared for the worst after the unsavoury experience of 2008 and 2009 during which many professionals were laid off in...
12:51 PM, May 18, 2012
The fact that Irom Chanu Sharmila's fast for repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Manipur has joined Ripley's odditorium will leave ...
12:56 PM, May 10, 2012
The report of amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran with respect to Narendra Modi's culpability in the 2002 Gujarat riots has galvanised those who were disenchanted with the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team's (SIT's) findings in the case. Modi's supporters, who were relieved at the SIT giving a clean chit to their leader, are also a worried lot. But these expressions of excitement and anguish do not have much basis at this...
12:22 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: The rumour mills in the capital's corridors of power are all abuzz that Pranab Mukherjee is the most likely choice as the next President of India. UPA's ubiquitous troubleshooter who has been a parliamentarian since 1969 and has served three prime ministers - namely Indira Gandhi, PV Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh " is considered to be a Gandhi family loyalist and the principal architect of Sonia Gandhi's...
09:38 AM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Pakistan military is on the same page as that of the civilian democratic government as Islamabad seeks to redress its relations with India, Lt Gen. Talat Masood, the retired three-star general who was in charge of the country's Missile Integration Programme, told IBNLive in an exclusive interview early this week. While acknowledging that the Hafiz Saeed issue was a major stumbling block, he said Pakistan was hopeful...
12:36 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: The anger against politicians and young India's frustration with corrupt practices have not spared even Sachin Tendulkar, India's modern-day equivalent of God, possibly the only celebrity whose criticism is strictly discouraged in the media and is not a particularly safe thing to do in public. While the Congress may think of lapping up Sachin as the first step towards the preparations for 2014 and Sachin may regard the...
11:49 AM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: Missile tests and weapons development programmes of Pakistan and India are unlikely to be influenced by any thaw in Indo-Pak relations and the greater emphasis on trade, Lt General Talat Masood, the three-star general of the Pakistan Army who led Islamabad's Missile Integration Programme in the late 80s and has spearheaded many of Pakistan's classified weapons development programmes including the nuclear weapons programme, said in an exclusive interview...
01:49 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi had to resign from all his official positions in wake of a certain video footage which started doing the rounds ...
07:45 PM, Apr 24, 2012
The path of self-destruction, that West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has embarked on since May, 2011, has been concrete-reinforced by her government's actions over ...
04:10 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Exactly on April 3, 28 years back, IAF Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma strapped himself inside a Soyuz T-11 mission capsule. As the rocket, essentially a gigantic intercontinental ballistic missile, carrying the 6850-kg spacecraft, blasted off from its launch pad in Baikonur in Kazakhstan, Sharma became the first Indian cosmonaut, the first Indian in space. Born on January 13, 1949, in Patiala, Punjab, to Hindu Gaur parents, Sharma joined the Indian...
12:22 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Dinesh Trivedi, Lok Sabha MP and former Railway Minister, was born in New Delhi on June 4, 1950, to Hiralal and Urmila Trivedi, a Gujarati couple. They had migrated to India from Karachi during India's partition. Partition took a terrible toll on the stability of the Trivedis who moved from Patiala to Ropar to Bhatinda and then to New Delhi. Stability came when his father landed a job at the...
12:11 AM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Akhilesh Yadav, the young Samajwadi Party (SP) leader, may just have turned the electoral tide in Uttar Pradesh elections into a giant SP wave, something that his Congress counterpart Rahul Gandhi had hoped to do when he had chosen UP as his make-or-break battleground a few years back. The Week-CNN-IBN post-election exit poll done by CSDS predicts that SP will emerge as the largest party in Uttar Pradesh....
08:08 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: After Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, the West's war eyes are now firmly fixed on Iran and Syria. International reportage on the Syrian crisis has drastically changed its character over the last fortnight or so. The entire discourse on the urgency to "stop the brewing humanitarian crisis' has changed tracks. The new discourse as outlined by the West and its lackeys in West Asia and North Africa now is...
07:43 AM, Feb 29, 2012
I don't think Iran or Hezbollah is behind the series of attacks that have targeted Israeli citizens and establishments in the last one week. I ...
04:53 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: Narayana Hrudayalaya, founded by heart surgeon Dr Devi Shetty, and Red Bus, the online bus ticket booking business founded by Phanindra Sama and his BITS Pilani peers, are the only two Indian companies which feature in business magazine Fast Companys The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies list. Dr Shetty's venture grabbed the 36th spot on the list which includes power companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon,...
03:40 PM, Feb 15, 2012
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