China has retaliated against India’s ban on its dairy products, putting the two neighbours with a legacy of estrangement on the brink of a trade war. China is annoyed with India’s decision to extend the ban on its milk and milk products,...

At a time when India is strongly protesting racist attacks on its citizens in Australia, Mizoram chief minister Pu Lalthanhawla handed it a first-rate embarrassment by saying at an international meet that Indians are themselves racist. ( Watch...

Metals and realty bore the brunt of a dramatic sell-off by foreign funds, sending the benchmark Sensex spiralling down by a huge 437.63 points, the third-biggest fall of the year. Extremely weak trends in European markets and US futures weighed on the...

The world’s number one retailer Wal-Mart opened its first sales venture in India on Saturday as part of an ambitious plan to establish a foothold in the country’s vast consumer market. The US discount chain has teamed up with Bharti...

NEW DELHI: India said on Wednesday it has handed over new information to Pakistan relating to last November’s Mumbai attack in which 166 people were killed. Pakistan had raised questions in response to a dossier of evidence furnished by India which...

The Congress on Thursday opened its doors to all parties, except the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena, in its attempt to put up a secular and progressive government. Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told journalists here that the party was...

With end of the mammoth elections, India’s plethora of parties from the far right to extreme left Thursday awaited the results of vote-counting. Results of the monthlong, five-phase balloting across 28 states and seven federal territories from...

People of Bengal want a change (read a change in governance)! My God! If I hear the ‘c’ word again, I might throw up. For, I have been hearing it constantly for the last eight months, almost every minute of the day. Be it the milkman,...

India fought for long years for swaraj, led by the Indian National Congress. The Viceroy under the British Crown was replaced by the Governor General. That title, too, was eliminated when Independent India emerged. Winston Churchill was opposed to...

NEW DELHI: The Congress-led alliance held a slight edge over the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies across three exit polls/survey telecast by television news networks, while the Third Front crosses the three-figure mark in the 543-member Lok...