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A meltdown in the Shanghai stock exchange sent shivers down the spine of global markets. But all those Cassandras, especially those in the West, who...

Maintaining his majoritarian assertiveness intact, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has retreated on land acquisition law, under political compulsions, to...

The wheel may well be coming full circle. It was another world when I first met Peter Mukerjea, CEO, Star TV in his Mumbai office. The year was 1997....

We hear sirens of 100 smart cities ringing aloud. Many have attempted to define them, but amidst the different visions emerging, from digital to <g...

Nothing shows more starkly the distortions that have vitiated the policy of reservations as the agitation by the financially and politically...

Jantar-Mantar of our national capital is now known more for protests and demonstrations than its 13 architectural astronomical instruments constructed...

Many techniques have been employed by people and governments to keep wild elephants out of human settlements, or at least to reduce their visitation...

It is very easy to fall in love with mountains, more so, when they are majestic like the ones in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.Here, every...

Operation Gibraltar was the Pakistan army’s grandiose plan to take over Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), in 1965. Pakistan’s first tin-pot dictator Field...

Pakistan’s decision to back out from the process that would have led to a composite dialogue with India is disappointing and unfortunate for South...

The devaluation of the Chinese yuan, coupled with anxieties about Beijing’s ability to revive the flagging economy, tasted first blood with a massive...

Three women in <g data-gr-id="53">burkhas</g> are found taking rounds of the primary school where their children study, a school where...