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A file picture of Bhutanese Queen Mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuk.

Buddhism India's greatest gift to us: Bhutan royal

Following Nehru's visit, Bhutan launched its first Five Year Plan in 1961, which, along with the second, was financed by...

24 Aug 2018 1:23 AM IST

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama speaks during the World Peace and Harmony Conclave in Mumbai on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

Of Dalai, Gandhi, Nehru & Jinnah: For monks, silence is always best

What the Indian government and people across the country have done for the Tibetan people is unparalleled in world...

17 Aug 2018 3:42 AM IST

Uddhav Thackeray and Narendra Modi

Shiv Sena flays Modi over Pak army chief's comment

The Saamana editorial states that the government is 'business as usual' and has failed on the Pakistan front.

9 Sept 2018 6:07 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru

Codes of conduct needed in politics

A code of conduct cannot be a cure-all. Crimes continue to be committed despite the existence of a penal code on the...

30 Sept 2018 2:34 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. (DC Images)

Pavan K. Varma | Govts a continuum: Modi, Nehru face-off ill-advised

Comparing leaders like Nehru and Modi is facile; history should be judged in context. Both have strengths and weaknesses

18 Feb 2024 1:40 AM IST

The BJPs invocation of Ram Rajya -- literally Rams kingdom, a utopian paradise flowing with milk and honey -- for electoral purposes is seen as just that, and not taken seriously by thinking persons who cannot forget that 2.5 million Indians would not have migrated every year if India had really achieved so much. (iMAGE: AFP)

Sunanda K Datta Ray | Compromise vital as India tries to expand global...

Similar credibility issues in explaining India's foreign policy face Modi and Jaishankar as Nehru did

7 March 2024 12:00 AM IST

NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) Party President Sharad Pawar. (PTI)

Pawar challenges PM to speak about his work instead of criticising...

The veteran leader said that no one in history can forget the contribution of former PM Nehru but Modi continuously...

22 April 2024 11:29 PM IST

8 forest officers hurt in crossfire

8 forest officers hurt in crossfire

In a heavy exchange of fire between forest officials and timber smugglers, eight forest officials were injured, two...

22 Feb 2013 1:08 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said the condition was tensed last year in the valley and now the situation is slowly normalising. The people of the state think that their identity can be in danger. (Photo: PTI)

Kashmir suffocated

Regardless of the political impasse, the routes of old should be reopened at least on humanitarian grounds.

27 Aug 2017 12:56 AM IST

Chinese leader Mao Zedong with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in August 1958. (Photo: AFP)

Soviet leader Khrushchev blasted China's Mao for 1959 border skirmish...

The acrimonious meeting towards the end of September that year a little over a month after the skirmish between Indian...

5 Aug 2017 3:28 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacting with the school children after addressing the nation on the occasion of 71st Independence Day in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: Twitter/@PIB_India))

With his fondness for children, Modi reminds us of Pandit Nehru

After concluding his I-Day speech, PM interacted with school children, some of whom were dressed as Krishna on the...

15 Aug 2017 4:57 PM IST

Over the last seventy years there have been many writers who have documented Indias struggle to freedom and her eventual Independence

Books on Indian Independence you should read

We list five must reads that deal with India's struggle for independence from fetters of British Raj.

15 Aug 2017 3:15 PM IST