Opinion

Does India need Uniform Civil Code?

When the Indian government’s 22nd Law Commission came out with a notification on June 14 seeking public opinion on a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), the opposition parties immediately saw it as a move to push upfront one of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s three ideological tenets in the run up to...

Opinion

Biden’s Outreach For: America First Top Priority For Biden

A country’s foreign policy is an extension of its supreme national interests. That old adage in the world of diplomacy was in full display as US President Joe Biden hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on June 23 and rolled out the red carpet for him. What a contrast i...

Entertainment

Costa Rica’s Spanish feature film gets big accolades

Costa Rica’s Spanish feature film, which explores a 16-year-old girl’s passage into adulthood, won the top Golden Peacock award of the best movie at the 53rd International Film Festival of India in Goa on Monday.Directed by Costa Rican film maker Valentina Maurel, the film won a second a...

Entertainment

The world needs new goals: Krzysztof

We have to find a new definition of progress or new goals of humanity at least to survive because our existence on this planet is challenged because of ecological catastrophe we are provoking and because of the weapons that we have created. And these weapons may be the tools of self- destruction, sa...

Opinion

A milestone in India’s nuclear power journey

The potent of India’s atomic weapons arsenal has gone up by a few notches with its first indigenously designed, manufactured and fully-functional nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant capable of firing ballistic missiles fitted with nuclear warheads having successfully completed its first patr...

Opinion

Gotabaya and India’s Sri Lanka saga

Sri Lanka’s newly-elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reaches New Delhi on Friday (November 29) for his first official visit abroad. The choice of India as first port of call since winning the Presidential elections is loaded with significance not only for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...