Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Need for new Ocean's Eleven? Climate cha | The title of 1960's film "Ocean's 11" starring Frank Sinatra and its remake in 2001 as "Ocean's Eleven" starring George Clooney, has already entered modern dictionaries. A project that is highly convoluted and byzantine, requiring arduous planning and management - as done by 11 guys robbing a high security casino vault in the film - is now called 'Ocean's Eleven'. | 19-Jul-2015 |
| Modi's bandwagon hits Vyapam roadblock | The Vyapam controversy has the potential of being as damaging, if not more, as the scams which sank the Congress. The reason why it may prove to be worse than, say, the spectrum scam is that Vyapam is unlike any other scandal seen in recent years. | 13-Jul-2015 |
| Double Standards | Former RAW chief Amarjit Singh Dulat has spilled the beans on a huge ‘goof-up†over the December 1999 Kandahar hijack. Much of what he has said was known already but what he did not talk about was whether India paid a ransom in addition to releasing the three extremist leaders. Reacting to the Dulat revelations that shows up a administrative paralysis and ‘passing the buck’ syndrome, the BJP spokesperson M J Akbar has said all this was done to protect the lives of the passengers on Ic-814. “ Ask them ( Congress) if it was a mistake to save the nearly 200 passengers,†Akbar thundered at a press conference. | 04-Jul-2015 |
| Modi's positives should not be swamped b | So, even as the economy is certified by the Reserve Bank governor to be on the mend, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to take the country into a digital age with more e-governance, it is the daily stumbles of ministers and mandarins that are attracting greater attention. | 04-Jul-2015 |