Lok Sabha passes WMD amendment bill"Today, there are big challenges, especially in the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Our role in the global arms control regime is very st...
07 Apr, 2022, 09.29 AM IST
Former President Pranab Mukherjee passes away in DelhiOn August 10, Mukherjee was admitted to the hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, after which he underwent a surgery following the ...
31 Aug, 2020, 06.47 PM IST
Kanyakumari to Kashmir: How a few South Indians had vital links to Kashmir's modern historySouth India has a few vital links to Kashmir’s modern history, and by extension, to its destiny.
18 Aug, 2019, 03.20 PM IST
Soviets paid Congress, CPI, CPI-M members even in Rajiv Gandhi era: CIAThis continued into the Rajiv Gandhi rule, although he tried to reduce the influence of Moscow on India, says the report.
30 Jan, 2017, 06.29 PM IST
USSR supplied clandestine cash to Congress party: CIAThe CIA documents accessed by ET allege Soviets provided kickbacks to the Congress party through arrangements with Indian businessmen.
26 Jan, 2017, 12.31 AM IST
Here are five long speeches by Indian politicians including PM Narendra ModiIn 1957, VK Krishna Menon addressed the United Nations Security Council for nearly eight hours. He was defending India's position on Kashmi...
15 Aug, 2016, 04.32 PM IST
How the Congress and BJP differ when managing a crisisBJP leaders always dig in, never letting go of power, while the Congressmen have to ringfence the Gandhis, against any attack for which it ...
28 Jun, 2015, 03.00 AM IST
Jawaharlal Nehru was torn between loving Chinese civilisation and securing Indian borderNehru’s first noteworthy encounter with the Chinese took place at the World Congress of Oppressed Peoples held in Brussels in 1927.
18 Nov, 2014, 11.57 AM IST
After Amarinder Singh versus Arun Jaitley contest, hunt continues for more names to fight heavyweightsSources in the BJP confirm that Amarinder Singh versus Jaitley fight was what prompted the search for strong candidates in Amethi and Rae B...
29 Mar, 2014, 03.53 AM IST
Stability not exciting: Young professionals chucking jobs at big companies to join startupsMore and more young professionals are willing to pass up the job security at big cos in favour of the thrill of innovation and sense of own...
06 Feb, 2014, 06.57 AM IST
Shashi Tharoor: Sunanda Pushkar controversy to cast a shadow over his political life in coming electionsMore than recent controversies, the work Shashi Tharoor did — and didn’t — for Thiruvananthapuram will determine his fate in the coming ele...
26 Jan, 2014, 05.50 AM IST
Can AK Antony help UPA weather the Finmeccanica storm?"Military relations with other countries have never deteriorated in any other period as much as in Antony’s period," says Arun Shourie.
16 Feb, 2013, 06.52 AM IST
Sunday ET: How Shashi Tharoor is transforming himself into a regular Kerala politicianKerala’s politics can be far more complicated than national politics, however: factionalism is rampant and more recent entrants are looked ...
04 Nov, 2012, 07.22 AM IST
1962 India-China war: Why India needed that joltIt's going to be 50 years of the 1962 India-China war. Here are the absurdities, confusions and embarrassments that marked India's response.
07 Oct, 2012, 06.44 PM IST
- The Regal theatre's grandeur, intact & vibrant
The Regal theatre's Art Deco building is iconic to the traffic circle in Mumbai, as the theatre still operates as a true testimony to the s...
28 Nov, 2009, 04.26 AM IST
Educated middle-class professionals should enter politicsFrom being an ace UN diplomat to a renowned author and now a Congress contestant from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor is tipped to be th...
27 Apr, 2009, 02.23 AM IST
- Shyam Benegal: A man for all season
It is difficult to get Shyam Benegal away from his cinema. With a mandate to explore a side ‘undiscovered’ by others, a passion hidden deep...
15 Oct, 2008, 02.43 AM IST