Editor's Desk - Page 350

The Photograph of Barack Obama posing with a smoking gun, with his goggled eyes squinted in concentration, is clearly more significant than a mere...

Salman Rushdie’s iconic novel has indeed come a long way since Satyajit Ray declared it ‘unfilmable’ in the late 1980s. Rushdie had for long publicly...

As Israel braces for a rather fragile coalition government, headed by the Binjamin Netanyahu-led Likud party, which managed to win only a dismal 31...

India and Bangladesh have had a long common cultural, economic and political history. The relationship between the two countries has faced some...

Finance minister P Chidambaram has said that he hopes to achieve 20-60 per cent savings on subsidies annually by trying to better the distribution...

Before the current controversy broke over an article actor Shah Rukh Khan wrote for a magazine where he talked about being Muslim in the post 9/11...

The Reserve Bank Of India’s decision to cut repo or interest rates by 0.25 per cent will immediately inject 1,80,000 crore into the market, which is a...

Cases  of medical negligence are by far the most serious kind of consumer woes and unfortunately they are becoming increasingly common. There have...

It is time for a nation to review its laws when a youth walks free after approximately six months, or less of brutally raping and physically abusing a...

With months left for the end of the term of the present Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai, frantic lobbying has started for the next...

‘There is hardly any nuclear problem at present which we cannot solve. We are on the right path of scientific progress and if everything goes well, we...

Even after author and sociologist Ashis Nandi was hurriedly whisked away from Diggi Palace in Jaipur, the venue of the Jaipur Literary Festival,...