If Radia tapes made you think the republic was put on sale by the UPA, these tapes will tell you the sale was on even before that, during the Vajpayee years
When the Republican candidate in the US presidential election, Donald Trump, turned 70 on June 16, the Hindu Sena celebrated it with a 7-kg chocolate cake, orange and blue balloons, and an orchestra at Jantar Mantar, a popular site for protests in the city.
I was greatly pleased to arrive in Thomas Hardy’s birthplace one June morning and note with a perverse satisfaction that the world seemed to have forgotten his birthday
If you like Nargis Fakhri, can it be that you wouldn’t take to Aisha Sharma? Sporting the best swimwear we’ve seen in a long time for Kingfisher, the attitudinous Aisha is about to hang on to Akshay Kumar’s beefy arms in Namaste England. Let’s hope the moving picture treats her as well!
Vice-president for research and policy at the Public Health Foundation of India Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan on what the post-antibiotic era might look like
A group show of figurative paintings, titled Figure IT, showcases art on cave walls, papyrus scrolls, silk screens and, of course, canvases, executed by eight renowned artists.
Look out of your window as you approach touchdown at Mumbai airport and you see a huge ocean of slums. It isn’t quite the most desirable first impression for a financial powerhouse in the making, not least when there are glittering rivals like Shanghai, all chock-full of eye-catching skyscrapers and superhighways. That could change soon, though. The key to that change is in the hands of the committee set up on March 20 by the RBI to produce a road map for full convertibility of the rupee on the capital account. The group, led by former RBI deputy governor S.S. Tarapore...
