Today is Friday the 13th: Why is considered unlucky? Here is all you should knowFriday the 13th, a day associated with bad luck, has various origins and superstitions surrounding it. One belief connects it to the Last S...
13 Oct, 2023, 02.41 PM IST
Natwar Singh defends Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to ban "The Satanic Verses", cites law & order scenarioWith focus back on Rushdie's book in the wake of the attack on him in New York, Singh, who was the minister of state for external affairs w...
13 Aug, 2022, 01.43 PM IST
RBI’s disputed circular cut delinquency: StudyAn internal study by the central bank has revealed that borrower delinquency reduced after the RBI’s February 12, 2018 circular requiring b...
04 Oct, 2021, 07.20 AM IST
A Remembrance of forgetting about things past: A look back at Gabriel Garcia Marquez's final yearsGarcia's prose is spare and elegant. He eschews any kind of sensationalism, and the slim book is illuminated by his love and admiration for...
25 Sep, 2021, 11.17 PM IST
Sedition law can’t be invoked to quieten disquiet, says Delhi courtThe observation was made in the bail orders of two men, Devi Lal Burdak and Swaroop Ram, who were booked in the same FIR on charges of sedi...
17 Feb, 2021, 11.13 AM IST
COVID-19 impact: New Olympic date likely 'this week': OrganisersNew dates for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will likely be revealed this week, organisers said Monday after the coronavirus forced the hi...
30 Mar, 2020, 01.20 PM IST
Manohar Parrikar rakes up Aamir's controversial remark, dubs it 'arrogant'Parrikar was speaking here after releasing the Marathi version journalist-author Nitin Gokhale's book on Siachen.
30 Jul, 2016, 10.29 PM IST
JD(U) meet at Nitish Kumar's house, Bihar CM Manjhi meets BJP ministerChief Minister Manjhi had an hour-long meeting with Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Sanitation Ramkripal Yadav.
20 Jan, 2015, 02.56 PM IST
Why long-term investors should believe in Infosys CEO Vishal SikkaCompany's bonus issue shows new CEO willing to address disquiet over unutilised cash pile & he seems to be geared to take other challenges.
11 Oct, 2014, 07.28 AM IST
- Strange clauses that shipping companies have in their contracts
When researching for cases relating to delays in filing of FIRs by police, one came across strange cases where transport companies were tak...
16 Jul, 2012, 11.42 AM IST
- Pilots' strike: Air India stops international bookings till May 15
Aviation minister Ajit Singh, who will be briefing PM Manmohan Singh on the AI crisis on Friday, maintained that pilots must first resume w...
11 May, 2012, 07.10 AM IST
- Life, according to Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago excoriated the greed-and-grease worshippers in all his narratives, fictional and non-fictional.
24 Jun, 2010, 06.41 AM IST
A singer of divine tunesIn his Journal of Disquiet, Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa confesses that he “cultivated hatred of action like a greenhouse flower”. That ...
29 Apr, 2010, 06.33 AM IST
- US says it is open to nuke deal with Pakistan
US has indicated it is open to Islamabad's plea for civilian nuke deal.
22 Mar, 2010, 12.33 PM IST
- US says it is open to nuke deal with Pakistan
Barack Obama administration has indicated it is open to Islamabad's plea for a civilian nuclear deal akin to the US-India agreement.
22 Mar, 2010, 06.50 AM IST
- Are Pak N-sites already in hands of Taliban?
There was no official word from US or New Delhi about the exchanges.
16 May, 2009, 05.31 AM IST
- Obama to bat for strong Indo-US ties
Obama has said he will build a close strategic partnership with India.
20 Jan, 2009, 04.19 PM IST