2012-06-01 13:08:36

Today is Friday – the first of June 2012 – a day of great significance. The government can now heave a sigh of relief as General VK Singh has retired and is out of the way. His tenure at the helm
2012-05-31 15:47:56

The NDA has decided to call for a nation-wide bandh in protest against the petrol price hike. As a political party, this is their right. And protests are a healthy part of any democracy. That is, if
2012-05-30 00:50:00

What an irony that in the last two days Chennaiites have scrambled to tank up, even if in the process they paid roughly 30 % more in black market rates over the prevailing price of petrol
2012-05-29 15:42:49

On April Fools' Day 2010, while taking over as Chief of Army Staff, General V K Singh identified his foremost goal as restoring the army's "internal health". On Thursday, in what surely will be a
2012-05-28 09:02:54

It is amazing to see in India umpteen scams worth thousands and thousands of crores just come and go with the conviction rate being abysmally low. There is a great brouhaha whenever a scandal breaks
2012-05-26 10:51:33

With prices having shot up again, by an unprecedented Rs. 7.54, the cost of petrol has nearly trebled since the UPA government came to power in 2004. The hike has failed to lift the rupee, and the
2012-05-23 16:20:06

Chennai Super Kings may have just sneaked into the last four of the IPL edition 5, but not before spiking the blood pressure of many a CSK fan. Fans say it is bad enough that CSK's performance is
2012-05-23 01:46:51

It is unreasonable to expect the Dalit community to not take offence at the cartoon of B R Ambedkar, drawn by the great cartoonist Shankar in 1949, withdrawn from NCERT textbooks by Indian members of
2012-05-21 18:06:07

On the 19th of May at 5:10PM, Maloy Krishna Dhar, bestselling author, widely regarded strategic expert and commentator, highly decorated police and intelligence officer, and yes, my father, passed
2012-05-19 11:30:00

What is noteworthy about the cartoon row is that neither Jawaharlal Nehru nor B.R. Ambedkar found anything objectionable about it when it was published in 1949. Nor did all the politicians in the