Amit Kapoor Walking down most streets in any major city in India, one notices pollution in one form or another. The air most times causes a burning sensation, or if that is missing, one can at least see empty cold drinks’ bottles, wrappers and the like thrown across the streets. It appears all-pervasive. The environment […]
With manufacturing at the core of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” campaign and labour costs in China eating into margins, India’s electrical goods manufacturers see little threat today from cheap imports, says Havells India chief Anil Rai Gupta. “The competition will be there. But the threat of unhealthy competition is over. We offer […]
Bollywood and other films showing anything to do with the Sikh religion or portraying characters as Sikhs are running into trouble with the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the mini-parliament of Sikh religion, and other Sikh groups. The latest controversy is over the film “Nanak Shah Fakir”, which portrays the life and times of Sikhism’s […]
From a dark depiction of the “omnipresent stench”, the people dwelling in concrete pipes and damning criticism of the city’s culture of hero worship to a philanthropic reachout to its marginalized people like ragpickers – Gunter Grass’ 40-year-old association with Kolkata had multiple shades. The versatile German Nobel Laureate, who effortlessly moved from one genre […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has invited global companies to invest in India, continued his pitch at the grand industrial fair here on Monday, this time listing what exactly makes the country an attractive destination. Inaugurating the India Pavilion and a business summit at Hannover Messe with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Modi said the 10 […]
A two-and-half-year-old boy, who was rescued from an open bore well he fell into on Sunday morning, later died in a hospital in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district, officials said. Tamilarasan, son of Kutti, a farmer, was taken to a hospital after he was taken out following a nine-hour-long rescue operation. At the hospital, the boy […]
Sachin Tendulkar may have hung up his bat about 17 months back, but the cheers that he received from a sea of fans at the Wankhede stadium here on Sunday showed the aura around the little master has not faded a bit. While cheers for those in the playing eleven is a normal scene, Mumbai […]
Two drones were seized while video recording a rally of the extremely backward classes here on Sunday and two people were detained in this connection, police said. Both the drones were apparently recording the Nishad Mahakumbh Maharally at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan without permission of the union home ministry for it, police added. Patna’s Senior Superintendent […]
Voting rights of Muslims should be revoked to stop vote-bank politics, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has said in an article slamming AIMIM leaders Asaduddin and Akbaruddin Owaisi for polarising the community. In the article published in the lastest issue of the Shiv Sena’s mouthpeice Saamna, Raut, also a Rajya Sabha member, addressed All India […]
The familiar lion-logo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” campaign was painted all over this German town, as he made a strong pitch to attract more foreign capital, especially in 25 identified sectors — from automobiles to wellness. From large billboards at prime locales to trams and busses, all were draped with the […]