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US President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. (Photo: AP)

In Asia, will Trump rebalance' US role?

South Korea's new President Moon Jae-in does not have the personal equation with Trump that Abe enjoys.

6 Nov 2017 12:23 AM IST

According to the last World Bank report 2017, Indias ranking improved by just one notch to 130 from a revised rank of 131 previous year.

Not the right time for euphoria

It is also important to juxtapose what the Ease of Doing Business report says with other international assessments.

5 Nov 2017 12:01 AM IST

Congress president Sonia Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Of bad advisers & poor planning

The programme began last November 19, when former President Pranab Mukherjee delivered a centenary lecture.

5 Nov 2017 12:01 AM IST

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi holding a meeting with the partys general secretaries at AICC headquarters in New Delhi recently. (Photo: PTI)

BJP jittery in Guj: Will Rahul play cards right?

The Congress vice-president struck a chord as he attacked demonetisation and unemployment in Prime Minister Narendra...

4 Nov 2017 12:57 AM IST

Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shake hands after their joint press conference in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Containing' rising China: India must go its own way

India is also aware that Japan and the US are China's biggest trading partners and extra-regional investors.

4 Nov 2017 12:57 AM IST

According to the last World Bank report 2017, Indias ranking improved by just one notch to 130 from a revised rank of 131 previous year.

Huge ranking jump to boost biz in India

The World Bank assessment includes a score showing the gap or distance to the perfect performance of 100.

3 Nov 2017 12:33 AM IST

Tourism Minister KJ Alphons visited the Swiss couple when they were in the hospital. (Photo: Alphonstourism | Twitter)

What kind of culture' needs such violence?

Killing someone or hitting someone in the name of defending Indian culture' damages it the most.

2 Nov 2017 12:31 AM IST

Vladimir Lenin (Photo: AP)

The spirit of 1917

Lenin arrived in Petrograd in April 1917 with a slogan on his lips: All power to the soviets.

2 Nov 2017 12:31 AM IST

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: Twitter | PMO India)

The perils of Aadhaar: Modi & Didi eye 2019

Mamata Banerjee has inserted herself into the political space that Mr Modi created by his digitally created visions of a...

1 Nov 2017 2:58 AM IST

Aligarh Muslim University. (Photo: File)

The boy and the country

As for Sir Syed and Claude Martin, they represented colonialism's positive moments but only in the interest of...

1 Nov 2017 2:50 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, shake hands prior to their luncheon talks, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

A stranglehold broken: Asian geopolitics shifts

India was forced to ship the biscuits through a long and circuitous route via Bandar Abbas port in Iran.

31 Oct 2017 12:13 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: AP)

Will China's dream' be a nightmare for India?

From the Indian perspective, the prominence given to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the deliberations is...

30 Oct 2017 12:07 AM IST