Illegal immigration is a threat to democracy and diversity

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In Trump 2.0, WHAT NEXT FOR IRAN?

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Pulse prices push retail inflation up to 5%

Retail inflation (CPI) rose to 5% year on year in the month of October as compared to 4.62% in the same month last year....

BJP concentrates on promised economic agenda post Bihar election

The BJP’s poor show in Bihar election is expected to push the Narendra Modi government to pursue its development agenda more forcefully. But whether...

Modi visit was about India-UK modern partnership

The rhythm of warm anticipation for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s UK visit was momentarily interrupted by the Awaaz stunt, a shocking hybrid of sacrilege...

Telangana CM is trying to join NDA

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) is all set to insist with the Bharaitya Janata Party that his Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) should...

Khalistan cries dominate ‘Sarbat Khalsa’

Cries of “Khalistan” reverberated like never before at the “Sarbat Khalsa” organised in Chabba village in Amritsar this week. Nearly 100,000 Sikhs attended the...

Court asks MoD if it wants to occupy ‘tainted’ Adarsh

In an unusual gesture, the Bombay High Court has asked the Ministry of Defence whether it wants to acquire the controversial and illegal Adarsh...

World is ditching the Dalai Lama

The global political scenario is amazingly changing in China’s favour. Nowhere is this so symptomatic than the way Beijing is able to win the...

BCCI starts putting its house in order

In perhaps the biggest clean up operation till date, the BCCI on Monday removed the all powerful former chief N Srinivasan and also coming...

Honda premium commuter Livo: mix of substance, style

Japanese bike maker Honda has been making rapid strides in the Indian two wheeler space in recent times. After its divorce with Hero a...

Movie Review: Prem Ratan Dhan Paayo is a classic fairytale that rings hollow

 Prem Ratan Dhan PaayoDirector:  Sooraj BarjatyaStarring:  Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar, Neil Nitin Mukesh Salman Khan has a new post-violent message to give: Make...

Not for children’s eyes only: Movies for every age group

The recently concluded Mumbai International Film Festival 2015 (JioMAMI) had a separate children’s film section called Half Ticket, curated by Monica Wahi, who has...

Karleo’s perfect white wedding gown

Indian couture label Karleo has launched what may be India’s first exclusive white wedding gown store in this country. What used to be a...

A hot piece of business hardware on your lap

 BU201LAAsusRs 85,999 This laptop from Asus goes head to head with the Latitude series from Dell and ThinPad from Lenovo, competing for the business segment...

Campaign to save a language that symbolises historical harmony

With English being the lingua franca of our digital age, the list of dying languages, including Urdu, around the world is getting longer. In...

Our greatest man of letters was a real public intellectual

Rabindranath Tagore still can mean many things to many people. His great corpus of poetry, of course, is right up there in his roster...

What we talk about when we talk about ourselves

The genre of autobiographical comics has only risen in prominence with every year since 1980, when Art Spiegelman began Maus as a serialized story....

Decoding the mythology of cricket’s experts and analysts

For the better part of the third day of the recently concluded Mohali Test match between India and South Africa, I was not near...

Old story, new setting: Why sports fans need to stop raking up the golden past

The repeat telecast is an important sub genre of world cricket that the fans of the sport can’t possibly do without. Watching an old...

Gurgaon Utsav returns for its fifth edition, bigger and better than ever

The Gurgaon Utsav is returning for its 5th edition with a bang. The musical event, lasting three days from November 13 to 15, is to...

Mother Superior

The last memory of the Maadr-e-Millat of Pakistan, Fatima Jinnah, will always be that of her bruised body being carried in an open jeep,...

Many Vyapam babus have foreign bank accounts

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is investigating the multi-crore Vyapam scam, has found documentary evidence suggesting that bureaucrats involved in the scam...

‘Dawood, Rajan enmity started much before ’93 blasts’

The seeds of mutual distrust in the minds of gangsters Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan were sown at least six months before the 1993...

BJP-Sena back to being friends, kind of, in Kalyan

Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar declared on Saturday that the Shiv Sena and BJP will form alliance at the Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation. But the...

6.5 lakh voters will be enrolled again

The Election Commission of India (EC), which sent a team of observers to look into complaints of “selective deletion of eligible voters” in Hyderabad...

BJP discusses CM post ahead of Bihar result

With all eyes set on the much-awaited results of the Bihar Assembly elections on Sunday, BJP leaders have started discussing the chief ministerial candidate,...

Delhi fast losing its green cover

Delhi’s green cover is diminishing at an alarming rate due to widespread felling of trees in the name of infrastructure projects. No sincere afforestation...

Screening test before IIT JEE

The prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) may soon introduce an aptitude test to screen candidates for writing the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). This...

Anupam Kher leads march against ‘intolerance’ protests

A large number of artistes, litterateurs and intellectuals, led by Bollywood actor Anupam Kher, gathered here on Saturday to protest against the recent incidents...

Andhra Bank net profit up by 74%

Powered by a robust business from the retail and small and medium enterprise (SME) segment, the Andhra Bank posted a jump in its net...

Unclear FDI policy irks local traders, stops foreign investment

Although the BJP’s opposition to foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi brand retail is the official stance of the party, the present NDA government...

Under Justin Trudeau, Canada’s global profile set for Major Rejig

There is a very good reason you haven’t been thinking much about Canada for the last ten years. Inspite of being a G7 country,...

Interesting trend witnessed in auction of Pro Wrestling

One had thought and hoped that Sushil Kumar would be the biggest draw at the Pro Wrestling League auctions which were held in the...

Youth killed in valley as mob clashes with police

Youth killed in valley as mob clashes with police A youth was killed when CRPF allegedly opened fire on the protesters at Zainakote on the...

Relocate houseboats and save Dal: J&K HC

The Division Bench of Jammu and Kashmir High Court has asked the state Cabinet to approve the project of relocating houseboats to the interior...

BJP will press for UT status for Ladakh

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s promise for a union territory status for Ladhak scripted success for the party in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council...

Congress decision to field ‘tainted’ neta may have cost Sarika’s life

The Congress’ decision to give the ticket of Warangal Lok Sabha byelection to S. Rajaiah, accused of dowry harassment by his daughter-in-law Sarika, may...

PM announces Rs 80,000 cr for J&K rebuilding

Ending Jammu and Kashmir’s several months of wait for a major financial package, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced at a rally in...

Tata to invest more in Telangana hub

Envisaged as India’s largest incubator for startups, T Hub (Telangana Hub of Startups) was launched by Tata Sons emeritus chairman Ratan Tata at Cyber...

Muslim group makes cow protection its mission

Amidst the din over beef, a group of Muslims in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh is silently working to protect cows and restore communal harmony....

Jalayukta Shivar Yojana is Fadnavis’ crowning glory

 ENSURING EFFICIENT USE OF WATERToday, a year after the Devendra Fadnavis government completed one year in office in Maharashtra, everyone seems to be talking...

CBI registers case against Chhota Rajan

The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against underworld don Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, alias Chhota Rajan, and unknown public servants for helping...

Only 20% refugees genuinely from Syria: Senior Tory MP

Conservative MP and UK’s former Secretary of State for Defence, Dr Liam Fox, while commenting on the present refugee crisis in Europe said that...

‘Arming Syria rebels was like entering blind alley’

UK’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee (FASC) released a report on 3 November saying there needs to be a comprehensive, coordinated diplomatic and military strategy...

Delhi BJP will protest AAP tax recovery bid

The Delhi BJP will oppose, both inside and outside the Assembly, the AAP government’s move to recover property tax from 60 lakh residents of...

Rural women will sell organic dal

Women entrepreneurs from the rural areas of the country will showcase organic products to promote healthy living in India, at an exhibition at Dilli...

Khemka rated ‘outstanding’ by Khattar govt

Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka has been rated as “outstanding” by the state government in its appraisal of the officer for the period during...

Delhi government will move SC in discom case

The Delhi government will move the Supreme Court to challenge the recent Delhi High Court order quashing the former’s decision to get the accounts...

iBall Cobalt Solus 4G falls short of perfection

 Cobalt Solus 4G By iBallRs 8,990 A white rectangular body with a golden metal rim running along the sides and a protruding camera with the outline...

Twitter struggles to stay relevant with slow growth of its user base

I signed up on Twitter was on a Motorola ZN200  phone that opened the web in a mobile format and responsive websites were something...

Movie Review: Hackneyed script and weak characters make this sequel a dud

The dad-daughter vampire duo are back in what was previously an enjoyable franchise, Hotel  Transylvania, but this time on, they have baggage, in the...

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