Fresh from three weeks of gruelling drills that involved all operational commands, the Air Force says it's ready for a two-front war (the brass prefers ...
07:39 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh spoke to a packed (and young) audience at Teen Murti Bhavan in New Delhi on the theme of Left-wing ...
10:58 PM, Jan 22, 2013
There is 'not a shred of evidence' that genetically-modified food is harmful to humans yet a committee appointed by the Supreme Court has advised a ...
09:39 PM, Nov 05, 2012
The bi-annual Army Commanders Conference kicked off in Delhi on Monday with the focus on issues ranging from operational and security to modernization and procurement. ...
12:17 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Reforms are as much about toilets as they are about FDI Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh's statement that a nation's salvation lies in more ...
09:12 AM, Oct 10, 2012
The unending woes of Kingfisher Airlines have been brought into sharp focus by the suicide of a ground engineer's wife, allegedly because she was depressed ...
11:29 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Oommen Chandy recently gave Air India Express a mild heart attack by suggesting that Kerala is relooking at launching its own flag carrier (Kerala has ...
12:24 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Kamra's Minhas air force base is one of Pakistan's most prized installations - part of a string of bases that guard the country's north, it ...
03:52 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Well, his father, the late Rajiv Gandhi, certainly was. An airline pilot by profession, Rajiv Gandhi's fascination for machines both civilian and military was well ...
04:57 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Ahmad Faraz, the Urdu poet, told me an interesting anecdote. Once, he was very late in catching his flight back home from Delhi. The airport ...
12:03 PM, Jun 15, 2012
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will file its chargesheet in the sensational Shehla Masood murder case in the special CBI court in Indore on ...
04:55 PM, May 24, 2012
In a city such as Delhi, your air conditioners should be all-weather but not if you happen to be transferred to Cherrapunjee. You may not ...
01:51 PM, May 22, 2012
Even ten days after the strike by the Air India's pilots began there appears to be no resolution in sight. With civil aviation minister Ajit ...
10:53 AM, May 16, 2012
The defence budget for 2011-12 has been hiked by 11 percent, pegging the allocation at Rs 164,415 crore (from Rs 1,47,344 crores last year), to ...
04:59 PM, Mar 29, 2012
More than two years after he imposed a moratorium on the commercial release of BT Brinjal, Jairam Ramesh defends his controversial decision says, "On BT ...
04:40 PM, Feb 27, 2012
One of my most embarrassing moments happened on Kingfisher Airlines. Comfortably ensconced in the Business Class after a long day, a charming lady in red, ...
01:17 PM, Feb 27, 2012
The media is abuzz with reports of turbulence in Kingfisher Airlines. A lot has been said and written about how badly it was run and ...
01:15 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Kingfisher has been in the throes of a deep financial crisis for quite some time now. The severity of the crisis became evident again earlier ...
04:12 PM, Feb 22, 2012
The German word schadenfreude best describes the manner in which many analysts have looked at the travails of Kingfisher Airlines (KFA). Schadenfreude is the pleasure ...
06:21 PM, Feb 21, 2012
At a small gathering of top Indian executives and management professionals in Bangalore this December, Egyptian blogger and spokesman for the "April 6 movement" Waleed ...
01:49 PM, Feb 02, 2012
