With six Olympic hockey gold medals between them, Dhyan Chand and Balbir Singh Senior have been relegated to the backburner by cricket-mad Indians and sports administrators with myopia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for self-reliance has triggered a discussion about India emerging as a manufacturing superpower, which can rival China eventually. In an exclusive interview to Outlook, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant talks about India’s preparedness, ambition and capabilities.
How Radio Jockey Mir is giving a melodious start to the City of Joy every morning
Inability of Oil India Ltd to plug a gas leak after a blowout in a well in eastern Assam prompted authorities to relocate nearly 2,500 residents away from the site recently.
China’s aggression is born out of insecurities about India’s foreign policy and its stand on issues of mutual interest, writes Lt Gen (Retd) Subrata Saha, a member of the national security advisory board
In the warren of streets of a quarter of old Calcutta, a flaneur plunges through the night. It’s the 1920s, and the sinful city seethes in dark luridness.
Not only coronavirus, BJP's 'Maharashtra Bachao' rally is certainly testing Thackeray's ability as an administrator. At least for now, the Sena-NCP-Congress alliance is holding up
Recently, Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta alluded to journalists reporting on the miseries of common Indian citizens—particularly migrant workers and the poor—as “vultures”.
In a globalised world, India needs to rethink its trade policies and aggressively negotiate trade agreements, writes Arpita Mukherjee of Indian Council of Research on International Economic Relations
China offers an exceptional model to demonstrate how FDI can be attracted and retained. India can learn from them, writes Santosh Pai of Institute of Chinese Studies
Mohammed Saqib, Secretary General, India China Economic And Cultural Council, says Indian industry is capable of replacing certain Chinese imports, but not all.
PM Narendra Modi is hoping to garner a whopping $330 billion by wooing foreign investors to 'Make in India'. The 'Buy Local, Be Global' mantra is also aimed at being self-reliant.
The lyricist had a flair for conveying sublime emotions in the simplest of words
Ajit Pal Singh led India to victory in the 1975 hockey World Cup in Kuala Lumpur. Balbir Singh senior was the team's manager. India have never won a World Cup again
Tensions with China along LAC may complicate India’s efforts to integrate Kashmir as Pakistan sniffs scope to add to turmoil in Valley
In an interview with Outlook, Anil Bhardwaj, Secretary General, FISME, says China can never ignore India for its growth, and India needs China for its industrial engine to boom.
A shadow of uncertainty always hangs because neither India nor China knows where the Line of Actual Control is in these sensitive areas
It’s an opportunity, yes, but keeping China out is also fraught with risk in the post-COVID era
In conversation with Arun Karthick, whose movie ‘Nasir’ won the NETPAC award at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020
Government relief schemes for MSMEs depend on bank managers who are looking at only healthy businesses who can repay loans.
In a memorandum, the AIIMS administration said submission of such representations directly to "outside authorities", bypassing the hospital, would be treated as an "unbecoming conduct".
"I feel that it is neither morally nor ethically right for me to continue as a member of the PDP," Singh said.
Zardari, 62, said Nawaz and Shahbaz plotted his murder when he was serving his eight-year-long sentence in corruption cases.
'Ideally we should do harmonisation of items chapter wise and wherever we find there is a big burden on small and medium businesses and on common man, we have to bring them down (and) then only there will be a better compliance'
According to a senior Niti Aayog official, the ICAR has been asked to look into the possibility of converting cow urine into amino acid for use as natural fertiliser to increase farm productivity.
