PE funds consortium in talks to acquire Reliance Globalcom PTI Mumbai
Anil AmbaniA consortium of PE funds including Samena Capital is in advanced stage of negotiations for acquisition of Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Globalcom Ltd.Reliance Globalcom is a unit of...
View ArticleFrom gap to abyss Why the current-account deficit has ballooned to record...
Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has been touring the globe for the past few months. In January, he was in Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Frankfurt. He visited Dubai at the end of March and...
View ArticleDelhi rape protests continue unabated, barricades breached at Manmohan's...
Dozens of BJP women activists Sunday marched to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's house and broke barricades on the way to denounce the brutal rape of a five-year-old as protests raged for a second day...
View ArticleNo Kashmir or India in Pakistan's poll campaigns IT
Former President Pervez Musharraf is out of race for Pakistan's top post.Kashmir occupies much of Pakistan's foreign policy space and remains an obsession with its security establishment and non-state...
View ArticlePakistan: A democracy of dictatorships Mail Today | New Delhi March 19, 2013
Pakistan PM Raja Pervez Ashraf.Here is the chronology of Pakistan's political history in a nutshell.1947 - Pakistan is created following British India's Partition; divided into two sections, East...
View ArticleQaswar Abbas | Mail Today | Islamabad
Graphic representation: Mail TodayThe democratically-elected civilian government led by thePakistan People's Party made history on March 16 by becoming the first civilian government since the...
View ArticleSonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh face Delhi's ire as child rape protests take...
X BJP's Mahila Morcha activists try to break the police barricades during the protest against UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi near her residence over the rape of a minor girl in New Delhi on Sunday.PHOTO:...
View ArticleMathematical genius Shakuntala Devi breathes her last at hospital in...
File Photo: Indian mathematics prodigy Shakuntala Devi in New Delhi. Photo: Vijay Mathur/ ReutersMathematical genius Shakuntala Devi, nicknamed as "human computer" for her ability to make complex...
View ArticleSri Lanka guilty of major human rights violations in 2012: US report PTI Colombo
File Photo: Protests in India against human rights violation in Sri Lanka.The US has said that Sri Lanka's rights record in 2012 was tainted by "major human rights problems" including...
View ArticleCRPF to provide commandos to guard Mukesh Ambani as he joins elite club of...
Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh AmbaniRIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the new entrant to the 'Z' category VIP security club after the union home ministry recently approved an armed commando...
View ArticlePentagon chief reiterates Israel's right to attack Iran Reuters Tel Aviv
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck HagelU.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Sunday a $10 billion arms deal planned with Arab and Israeli allies sent a "very clear signal" to Iran that military...
View ArticleAthletes who brought laurels to the nation are today languishing in poverty
X FacebookEmailGoogle+MessengerLinkedinDigg ItTwitterNewsvineFarkNowpublicRedditPrint The 15-year-old Olympian from Madhya Pradesh, Sita Sahu works at a shop to support family. Sita Sahu: From being...
View ArticleBoston bombing case cracked in four days, Indian agencies still clueless on...
| The handling of Bangalore case reminds of poor standards and lack of professional approach. ReutersTwin bomb explosions rocked the Boston marathon on April 15, killing at least three people and...
View ArticleBadly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect responding to questions
Despite a serious throat wound preventing him from speaking, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect is beginning to respond to questions from investigators, federal officials tell NBC...
View ArticleThe Lankan monks that believe in violence Peace remains elusive as Muslims...
Subha Wijesiriwardena 2013-04-27 , Issue 17 Volume 10 Monk power An ingrained culture of blind respect for Buddhist monks gives the Bodu Bala Sena a shield of protection, Photo: AFPIT IS...
View ArticleThe Man Who Destroyed Eelam
Prabakaran had everything: territory, international support and committed fighters. Senior journalist Shyam Tekwani, who has covered the LTTE and Sri Lanka for almost three decades tracks the alarming...
View ArticleIf Mahinda Rajapaksa doesn’t heal the wounds of the Sri Lankan Tamils,...
THE RECENT conflict in Sri Lanka ended in 2009 at Puttamattallan, a beautiful stretch of beach in the northeast. It left a community destroyed and a country further fractured. The three-decade conflict...
View ArticleSri Lankan President rejects allegations in US human rights report
Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 06:20 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Apr 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa today vehemently rejected the allegations made against the country by...
View ArticleSri Lanka police reject US charges of torture and abuse in detention
Mon, Apr 22, 2013, 10:01 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Apr 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka Police Sunday rejected the charges of torture and abuse of country's citizens during police custody,...
View ArticleInstitute of Defence Studies and Analysis - IDSA
IDSA COMMENTReligious Tensions in Sri LankaGulbin SultanaApril 22, 2013Sri Lanka is currently in grip of religious tensions between the Sinhala Budhdhists and the Muslims. Pepiliyana, 9-km away from...
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