Everyone loves a joke, doesn’t he? Either to hear, read or crack. If I asked you what your best joke is, chances are that you won’t be able to come out with an answer. Well, I know the answer to this question is very difficult because...

The Times of India Delhi edition on Thursday, October 9, 2008 published an article on Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Somnath Chatterjee’s refusal to visit Britain because the British government couldn’t give him a security clearance at the airport where he...

Ishmeet Singh, the first Voice of India champion in 2007 has died in a drowning accident in Maldives today. Ishmeet hailed from Ludhiana in Punjab. A couple of months back I was invited in Guru Tegh Bahadur Insitute of Technology in Rajouri Gardens,...

Veteran Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Harkrishen Singh Surjit passed away in a NOIDA hospital a few minutes back after a prolonged illness. He was 92. He had been recently hospitalized again following respiratory problems. He was the...

Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins Olympic bronze medal for India at Beijing Olympics. Sushil beat Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan in 66 kg freestyle repechage in a heart-stopping bout. This is India’s second medal in the Beijing Olympics following...

When Roger Federer won last year’s US Open in expectedly dominant fashion, the tennis world was on the cusp of unanimously declaring him the Greatest of All Time. Pete Sampras’s Grand Slam record would be smashed, perhaps, by June.

The nuclear deal poses one of the most divisive challenges India has ever faced. The latest U.S. revelations on its conditions point to the manner the deal has been politically mismanaged by the Indian government.

The Bush administration, through a gag order on its written responses to Congressional questions, had sought to keep the Indian public in the dark on the larger implications of the nuclear deal, lest the accord run into rougher weather.

Google’s Chrome browser is outperforming the latest “stable” builds of both Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 in the popular Acid3 test. The Acid test, for those who do not know, tests how well a browser complies with a given set of...

“Who listens to us? Nobody. Biharis keep dying due to floods, but nation doesn’t take notice of them. I know so many families in north Bihar who have lost their homes 14 times due to floods after Independence. Then, so what? Does anybody...