A conversation with Shyam Benegal
Acclaimed Indian director Shyam Benegal plans to begin the shooting of his much-awaited feature film on the life and works of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Filming for the Bangladesh-India co-production is expected to begin in November this year and be completed by February next.
8 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Emerging trends as Indian election approaches end
Polling in 70 percent of the total of 543 seats in India’s parliamentary election is over. After polling began on April 11, voters have chosen their representatives for 373 constituencies in four phases.
4 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Indian general election: Battle for Delhi’s seven parliamentary seats and beyond
It is not just the summer heat that is rising in Delhi with each passing day. The political temperature, too, is shooting up with the battle lines drawn for the seven parliamentary seats which will go to the polls on May 12.
29 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Modi-Priyanka duel: Anti-climax to a frenzied build-up
The month-long feverish speculations about Congress Party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi parliamentary constituency has come to an anti-climactic end. Had it come about,
27 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Has democracy returned to the Maldives?
The last seven months have seen two watershed events in the political history of the Maldives, the strategically-located Indian Ocean archipelago that has since long been a theatre of intense rivalry between Asian giants India and China for influence.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Sexual Harassment: Top Indian judge caught up in storm
India’s Supreme Court yesterday held an extraordinary hearing after a former employee of the apex court accused Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harassment and persecution.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM
BJP banking on Bengal as Mamata eyes Delhi
If West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee nurtures larger ambitions to play a much bigger role at the national level after the ongoing parliamentary elections that by most accounts will produce a hung verdict,
17 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Is the party going back to its roots?
Out of power for five years, the Congress Party's manifesto for the coming parliamentary elections in India has done enough to bring out once again its traditional Left-of-the-Centre ideological moorings and project a more inclusive and welfare-oriented organisation after its brief flirtation with a slight tilt to the Right for several months last year.
10 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Rahul Gandhi goes south to revive Congress
Rahul Gandhi's decision to contest from a second parliamentary constituency—Wayanad in the southern state of Kerala besides his traditional constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh in the north—in the coming national elections is an emphatic statement of his long-term strategy to rebuild his party and bring it back to power.
3 April 2019, 18:00 PM
From betting on the poor to helping the poor
When it is election time, nothing pays more than populism. All parties love to woo the poorest of the poor segment of society to strengthen their welfare politics credentials.
30 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Social media and Indian national elections
The drawing up of a “Voluntary Code of Ethics” by social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and ShareChat and their intermediaries for the coming parliamentary elections in India is a landmark decision in more ways than one.
24 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Alliance-building for Indian polls gains pace
Ever since India entered the unpredictable terrains of coalition politics in early 1990s, winning parliamentary elections and forming governments have been all about the right alliance partners.
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
India and the Islamic World in the March of Time
When former foreign minister of Bangladesh (under the previous Sheikh Hasina government) AH Mahmood Ali spoke at a meeting of
16 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Wooing women voters in poll-time India
Three separate announc-ements in quick succession by bachelor Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee on March 10 and 11
14 March 2019, 18:00 PM
India tightens rules for Boeing 737 Max
India's civil aviation regulator has further tightened the rules relating to operations of Boeing 737 Max aircraft on Monday a day after a fatal crash of one such plane of the Ethiopian Airlines killing all 157 people on board.
12 March 2019, 18:00 PM
India fines Volkswagen Rs 500cr for eco-damage
India's National Green Tribunal (NGT) yesterday ordered automobile major Volkswagen to pay Rs 500 crore as fine for “intentionally programming diesel engines with cheat devices” that caused environmental damage.
7 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Trump scraps GSP for India
The US has announced its plans to scrap the generalised system of preferences (GSP) benefits for India within two months that allows the Asian country to export up to $5.6 billion worth of products to America duty-free.
5 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Pulwama, Balakot dominate India's pre-poll political discourse
True to expectations, the Pulwama terror attack which left 40 Indian paramilitary personnel dead and the Indian Air Force's assault on
4 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Only possible through the dismantling of the terror apparatus
The homecom-ing of Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman from two days of captivity in Pakistan on Friday is considered by some as the first sign of de-escalation of the hostilities and the visible resultant tensions between India and Pakistan in the last few days.
2 March 2019, 18:00 PM
India, Japan sign $75bn currency swap deal
The Bank of Japan and the Reserve Bank of India signed a Bilateral Swap Arrangement (BSA) with effect from yesterday, which will enable both countries to swap their local currencies against US dollar for up to $75 billion.
28 February 2019, 18:00 PM