With rice procurement at last year's level it is a great mystery why wheat is not being unloaded in the market in a big way.

At a rare press conference this week in Rawalpindi,Pak Army Chief has offered to train the Afghan National Army.

IF YOU trace the history of many great business empires you will discover that the origins of their wealth are murky.

The recent judgment by the Bangladesh Supreme Court last week in Dhaka as an operative secular democracy is terribly important and only a jaded elite tucked it away. The last of the Bismarckians thrive in the subcontinent and foreign policy treatments after the Fifties of the last century were not heard of. After dinner,Morgenthau and […]

"The PMO has noted with regret the inclusion of a foreign national's photograph in a government of India advertisement. While an internal inquiry has been instituted,the PMO apologizes to the public for this lapse.”

The bad blood between an Indian Prime Minister and a US president was never more apparent than in the case of Richard Nixon and Indira Gandhi.

In every country,cab-drivers have a world view and chats with them often offer interesting perspectives.

I remember Jyoti Basu as serious and reserved and yet a very warm and considerate human leader.

Holbrooke said Washington would certainly welcome a political thaw between India and Pakistan.

"Well,hardest substance found in nature,it cuts glass,suggests marriage... I suppose it replaced the dog as the girl's best friend."

Noughties was a decade when our ‘Lagaan’ went to the Oscars and when AR Rahman,Gulzar and Resul Pookutty actually won the golden statuette.

A calculation was made that with a nine per cent growth rate in the meltdown years,China would overtake Japan and become the second largest economy of the world next to the US.

China has put the world on notice that it is considering the acquisition of a naval base in the Arabian Sea.

The Foundations of Economic Analysis was a restatement of the unifying principles of Economics in a manner not known earlier,and swept many cobwebs away.

Congress needs to reflect on the historical evolution of the party's world view and refashion it.

Not too many people remember Kawas Maneckshaw Nanavati now.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been absent for nearly half the month-long winter session of Parliament.

Whether he quits or not,President Asif Ali Zardari has been so severely weakened that he no longer poses a threat to Pakistan's permanent establishment.

I went in to watch Paa with much trepidation. I was also skeptical of the casting.

A leader of a national political party was badly advised to take liberties with scientific facts in his interventions in the Lok Sabha.

On the last day of 2008 (a year when Parliament met for a paltry 46 days),eight Bills were passed in Lok Sabha in 17 minutes.

Reform of the sector needs transparency,enforcement of prudential norms and effective governance.

Perhaps the most memorable line in Justice Liberhan's very forgettable report is where he coins the phrase 'pseudo moderate'.

Given its pre-occupations with the US,China and Pakistan,India may not have the diplomatic energy to grasp the opportunities offered by the Commonwealth.

A year down the line no individual has been held accountable for the monumental blunders of 26/11.