Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has done it again. After Sonia Gandhi and son Rahul, it was the turn of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate L.K. Advani to face the brick wall that is the UP CM, when ...

On March 12, the Third Front, which is the other name for a ragtag group of nine parties ranging from the fickle JD(S), which seems to have emerged out of nowhere as a key player in this drama, to the ...

It was the first Oscars that I have ever watched. Forget it. It was the first Oscars that India itself was watching so closely. I say this with brazen alacrity, though some might question my ...

One wonders in horror where this country is heading when such cases as the brutal beating up of an eight-year-old girl by police in a village in Uttar Pradesh come to light. ...

You would think each time it happens that our country's self-styled moral brigades have taken it too far. Then they go ahead and shock you with yet another incident that proves nothing is too far for ...

I hate to be a party-pooper, especially at this momentous time in history, when Barack Obama, a Black man, has just become the 44th president of the most powerful nation on this earth. But that is ...

During the valedictory session of the Fourth Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit in Ahmedabad, two respected captains of Indian industry - Anil Ambani, chairman of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, ...

It is indeed a black day in Indian democracy. Following the unprecedented coverage of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre has proposed to amend the Cable ...

In what is getting to be a habit in the Capital, another rape case has been reported from Noida. ...

As India grows and has placed itself as a major player in the global economy, it sets itself up for a closer look at the various aspects of its growth. And one important sector that comes up for ...

Last Saturday, a gang of about 30 gunmen barged into a Hindu school in Kandhamal district of Orissa and opened fire, killing influential VHP leader Laxmananda Saraswati and four others. As if it was ...

After months of speculation, former prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif finally pulled out of the troubled coalition that was born in turmoil and has ended with disrepute. After Musharraf quit as ...

Inflation, the 123 Indo-US nuclear deal, the Amarnath shrine land row, Russian occupation of Georgia, Obama vs. McCain... what does the young Indian of today hear when subjects like these are brought ...

The all-new iPhone 3G is all set to launch in India. The name, however, is a bit of a misnomer as far as India is concerned, because the country does not support 3G networks... not yet anyway. But ...

When the US announced post the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center that it would be launching a 'War on Terror', people in India must have uttered a wry laugh within themselves. ...

Last Thursday, the Calcutta High Court came down hard on a section of the Kolkata police force for its poor handling of the Rizwanur Rahman case. In fact, the court was being kind by euphemistically ...

The decision by Bangalore's police – who have donned additional uniform by turning moralistic – to ban live music performances in pubs, hotels and restaurants hasn't gone down well with ...

After nine years of a rather tumultuous rule in Pakistan, the country's most famous dictator faces a rather unceremonious and undignified exit from a position he has held on to rather tenuously for so ...

This is a very sensitive subject, so I am going to tread with as much caution as I can here, since a lot of people feel very passionately about it – abortion. The context, of course, is quite ...

Two weeks ago, a series of low-intensity blasts went off in Bangalore. Then, even as the dust was settling and the flames receding into a blood-red sunset, with murmurs unsettling the country about ...