Mamata trims passenger fare no hike in freight rate
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday presented the Railway Budget 2010-11 in the Parliament, saying that her ministry has come out with "Vision 2020" to modernise the railway networ...- in News
ICC to scrap neutral umpires system?: Rediff Sports
The International Cricket Council (ICC ) might do away with the concept of neutral umpires by this year's Ashes as it feels the Decision Review System would clear the decks for officials to stan...- in News
Why security must top the government's agenda
Two points make the 2009 electoral verdict very satisfactory -- for one, there is a clear mandate and the government will be stable. Secondly, the resounding defeat of the Communist Party of India-M...- in News
'It is up to Muslims to open the door'
Cairo was the perfect podium for the speech that we did hear, since your true theme was not the 'Muslim world' but the region between the Nile and the Indus, which I have, elsewhere, called the ...- in News
'Prabhakaran killed the political dream of Tamils'
This confusion has been there for the past 25 years. Even three months ago, the LTTE's thugs had come and asked for funds. They claimed a ship will carry relief and aid from London to Sri Lanka....- in News
BJP lags behind, but Rajnath races ahead
The Bharatiya Janata Party has been given a severe drubbing in the Lok Sabha election. The party was gasping for breath while trying to retain a paltry 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh -- pathetic perfor...- in News
'Prabhakaran killed the political dream of Tamils'
How do you see the end of the LTTE in the context of the Tamil struggle?
The struggle for equal rights for the Tamil people will go on. The first thing is that the lakhs of people, who have be...- in News
'We drove out an evil force called Left'
Senior Congress leader and Member of the Legislative Assembly in West Bengal Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury is a happy man. Months of relentless hard work have paid off and the Congress-Trinamo...- in News
Telecast news just twice a day
Did the television news channels help me to decide who or which party I should vote for in the just-ended Lok Sabha election?
I think not.
When I went to the polling booth on the morning of Ap...- in News
If only a fine speech could help!
After listening to President Obama's Cairo speech, I turned to twitter (www.twitter.com/sreeniv) and tweeted, 'If only speeches, good speeches, could resolve the problems of the world!'
My next ...- in News
'Prabhakaran killed the political dream of Tamils'
Anthony Thasan was a child soldier with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the 1980s. Disillusioned with the organisation as it quietly moved away from its core ideologies, he escaped from ...- in News
'Prabhakaran killed the political dream of Tamils'
Do you think the organisation failed the people?
Of course! And what we saw in the final stages of the battle -- where they (LTTE) used innocent people as human shields -- was appalling. They w...- in News
Kamala Das: Celebrating the faithless
I first met Kamala Das in Bank House on Backbay Reclamation. The flat was quite close to what is today my office in Nariman Point (in Mumbai ). I had come from Kolkata , where I lived in those days,...- in News
Why the Taliban is attacking the ISI
A journalist working for an American newspaper asked: "Why has the Taliban attacked the Inter Services Intelligence? Isn't that like biting the hand that feeds?"
This question was in purs...- in News