Will the rise and rise of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi help the BJP? Opinion is divided as strongman Modi took the centrestage in a major reshuffle within the party. Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and political pundits were divided on whether or not Modi, who has not hidden his prime [...]

India finally routed Australia 4-0 and revenged the whitewash at their hands back in 2012. It was a dream run for the Indian youth brigade where runs and wickets came in plenty for them. However, does the latest victory end all the troubles for us and ensure bright chances against [...]

New Delhi: If Indian companies do not quickly move into West Africa, Western firms will control the $300-million strong market, says Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Rui Duarte de Barros. “Indian companies must know that if they don’t grab this opportunity, it will be taken by European and Western companies,” de Barros [...]

Singur (West Bengal), March 30 (IANS) It is widely believed that the Singur agitation, an intense anti-land acquisition movement, had propelled Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress to power in West Bengal nearly two years ago, evicting the three-decade-long Left Front regime. Now, with the Trinamool Congress government facing rough seas on [...]

Hyderabad, March 30 (IANS) History appears to be repeating itself in Andhra Pradesh with the opposition parties closing ranks for state-wide protests over the severe electricity shortage and the proposed hike in tariff. The Left parties and the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) have come together to pressurise the [...]

While National Investigating Agency (NIA) probes the veracity of claims of Delhi Police and Jammu and Kashmir Police on credentials and motives of a Kashmiri man, Liaquat Shah, arrested for alleged terror plot in the Capital, the surrender policy for former militants needs an urgent review. According to Jammu and [...]

Hyderabad, March 29 (IANS) Laparoscopic ileal interposition surgery or the small intestinal switch for the control of type 2 diabetes is catching up with more countries showing interest in adopting the advance technique, said laparoscopic surgeon Surendra Ugale. Ugale of Kirloskar Hospital, who is the pioneer of this technique in [...]

Gangadevipalli (Andhra Pradesh): If India lives in its villages, then the model it perhaps must follow is Gangadevipalli, a hamlet in Andhra Pradesh’s Warangal district where every house has the bare necessities of life, and more. From regular power and water supply to a scientific water filtration plant, a community-owned cable [...]

The recent Adhikar rally by Nitish Kumar at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi attracted a lot of media attention nationwide because of massive volume of supporters from Bihar joining the cause. The after-effects of the gathering are still to be experienced but the convention was surely more than plain struggle [...]

Kolkata: He was part of the hockey team which won independent India’s first Olympic gold medal, but Jaswant Singh Rajput, who played both as a left-half and centre-half, dislikes watching the national team of which he once was a proud member. “Hockey is now a hit and run game. There is [...]