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In the terrorist attack by 10 Pakistani terrorists of the Lashkar e Tayiba in Mumbai from Novembe...
In a nation ravaged by terrorism, we seldom asked the question why we the innocent people were ...
Eight-times gold medallists India missed out on the Olympic Games men's hockey event for the fi...
To develop cutting edge defence industries, New Delhi must eschew the inherent divisive tendencie...
By targeting the Sri Lankan cricket team in the heart of Lahore, Pakistani militants have cross...
The year 2008 has withered away. Shall the Congress party follow suit?The year has ended with two ...
True to his promise, US President Barack Obama gave executive orders on January 22, to shut down ...
As we were planning this weekend's Academy Award-viewing plans, I mentioned them to my 5-year-old ...
The Taliban have become a threat for the Pakistan army like the Mukti Bahini in then East Pakist...
If bra burning was the slogan of feminism in the sixties, should the neo-avatars of Simone de Beau...
The Congress party is the proverbial dark horse in Uttar Pradesh for the forthcoming parliamentar...
The calendar of the five-phase elections for the 15th Lok Sabha has been announced. Almost all ...
Now we know the Pakistani claim regarding the death of senior Al Qaeda leader Mustafa Abu al-Yazi...
Forty-five days after the Mumbai terrorist strike of November 2008, India has failed to convince ...
Bernard Haykel, an expert on Islam, told Sheela Bhatt in the first part of an exclusiv...
In a remarkable string of coincidences over the past fortnight or so, the United Progressive Al...
India won the Under-19 cricket World Cup for the second time when the team, led by Virat Kohli,...
They are calling it India's 9/11," my sister remarked on the phone to me from California the other...
Let all of us, including the distinguished ambassadors of BRIC send a joint resolution to Senator ...
There has been considerable anger and indignation in India British Foreign Secretary David Mili...
I have received a number of questions from readers with reference to my article on rediff.com y...
Omar Abdullah is all set to take over as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir -- the yo...
At 60, Professor Ray Umashankar, who has an artificial hip, climbed the 19,340-foot Mount K...
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.' W B Yeats's line from his poem The Second Coming seems...
The Obama coronation is a morale boost in what is turning out to be the most dire economic and ge...
The authenticity of the message purporting to be from Mustafa Abu-al Yazid, who has been projec...
Slumdog Millionaire? I hate that film!" said a much decorated, liberal and well-travelled former s...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati turns 53 on January 15, and as usual her government will g...
If Ashok Gehlot ever gives up politics he can make his mark as a juggler.Gehlot is the chief minis...
There have been understandable scenes of jubilation in Colombo and other Sinhalese majority areas ...
Who do you think will come up with the most vicious Valentine greetings this Saturday? Shall it be...
Election fever has gripped Uttar Pradesh , and how.
All the important political parties like th...
Angered by the reluctance of the international community, including the government of India, to...
India ended their troubled tour of Australia on a high note when they beat the hosts by nine ru...
All politics is local politics.' So said Tip O'Neill, once the Speaker of the House of Representat...
I can boldly assert that I am the only living former civil servant who, as a member-secretary of t...
Faridkot of Ajmal 'Qasai' (Kasab ) fame is a mere ten miles from my ancestral village in tehsil De...
There are 75 days from the Election Commission announcing the poll schedule until the results o...
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei's visit to New Delhi has raised expectations that Beiji...
I was so wrong! About three years ago, I wrote an article on rediff.com wherein I mentioned ...
Speaking at the inaugural seminar of Aero-India 2009 in Bangalore, Defence Minister A K Antony exp...
Commentary: Wilson JohnThe US administration's decision to send an additional 17,000 troo...
On January 20 Barack Hussein Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States of America and ...
When I was in high school, the then Tamil Nadu government used to shut educational institutions...
Being a historic first entails both enjoyment of heady rewards and payment of a heavy price. Th...
The bombing of a Shia mosque in Dera Ghazi Khan and an armed assault on a police checkpost in Mian...
I have never been a fan of Barack Obama ; nor am I now. But I have to acknowledge that he has been...
By a coincidence, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband was in India during the annual kite-...
'And why did I slog so much? What for?' fumed Amit Agarwal. His anger and frustration was very...
Behind India's spectacular success in nuclear energy and space last year were two men, who had ded...
