Stock markets turned edgy today with the benchmark Sensex closing with a marginal 1.34-point drop after a volatile session, as an impressive industrial growth coupled with high inflation rate fuelled fear of imminent hike in lending rates.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's ... 
An Israeli nationalist group has urged supermodel Bar Rafaeli to ditch boyfriend, Hollywood star Leonardo Dicaprio so that she can settle down with a Jewish husband. The supermodel, who has been dating the ''Titanic'' star on and off since 2005, ... 
With the Special Investigation Team (SIT) summoning Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning in connection with the post-Godhra riots, Congress today demanded that he should quit on moral grounds.
"Modi has no right to be the chief minister once the ... 
One can't really start with day one of any trip to Las Vegas. After awhile, it just kinda all blends together. Its amazing how a huge desert can provide such beautiful tropical getaways.
Seeing volcanos exploding, pirate ships sinking and ... 
All in all, there have been some welcome extra investment in infrastructure and highways, good non-pollution initiatives, and some great tax structure changes if you are a tax-payer
Arindam Chaudhuri
No measures to stop speculation in food. No recommendation of strict punishment to the hoarders and no announcement of using the country’s huge forex reserves to import [...]
Is there any solution to the ongoing BT brinjal controversy? Do we really need BT modified crops? These and other questions are being debated by farmers, food experts, politicians and multinationals. The proponents of BT brinjal say that it will herald a second green revolution. But the opponents argue that India can manage without modified [...]
Trashing Pakistan’s assertion that state actors were not involved in terror acts against India, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said LeT and every other militant outfit of that country is supported by ISI and they have set up modules and sleeper cells in this country.
“If it is the state policy to sponsor terrorism, if the [...]
Two powerful blasts went off near a crowded mosque within the heavily-guarded cantonment in Lahore on Friday, killing at least 39 people and injuring almost 100 others in the latest in a slew of terror attacks across Pakistan.
“Thirty-nine people were killed and 95 wounded in the attacks,” Punjab provincial police chief Tariq Saleem Dogar [...]
In the middle of such an environment, what’s the role of an annual budget? Is it to maintain status quo or to give the world a robust signal that we are committed to our people — the 45 crore people who earn below 1.25 dollars a day
Arindam Chaudhuri
Shortage of a hundred and fifty million rural [...]
No political discourse in Tamil Nadu is complete without the mention of Kachatheevu, the uninhabited barren Island of 285 acres in the waters between Sri Lanka and India. When the maritime boundaries between India and Sri Lanka were settled in 1974, this small island, which belonged to the Raja of Ramanathapuram, was ceded to Sri [...]
