Politics

It sounds like a story carved out from a Bollywood masala film. It has all the masala ingredients of a Bollywood film. But, the story has a different climax—unlike such films, it ended in a tragedy.

It is the story of a domestic help, Luv…

Planning to make a tour of Mumbai? Which are the spots coming automatically to your mind?. The beautiful Marine Drive beaches, iconic Victoria Terminus and Fountain, Gateway of India, Haji Ali, Elephanta Caves, Film City…….etc. Have you finished? .

The unspoken Zionist honeymoon.

Saudi Arabia and especially Qatar seek to have it both ways. In Arabic they toe the line: unapologetic support for the Palestinians (albeit the House of Saud says little about Palestine as do most Arab governments…

The Union Cabinet on Monday deferred a decision on hiking the salary and allowances of MPs though the issue was discussed in detail.

The proposed increase is unlikely to be effected in the current session of Parliament.

Members of the Cabinet…

Nation wide preparations to celebrate Indias’s 64th I-Day with pomp and gaiety have been on everywhere. Ministers,high ranking civil and police officials have had a tough time to make the celebration a success. Far away from all these hectic…

America’s more innocent days … or were they? And what did they really mean by beaver?

Advertisers back in the day (1950-ish) did not have to worry about their ads being misunderstood and wrongly conveying sexual messages: double entendres,…

The candid and well-articulated order delivered by the Delhi High Court on the definition of a live-in relationship should be a guiding principle for the prospective people who wanted to enter this stop-gap arrangement for their temporary…

The news from Afghanistan gets more and more distressing as the days go by. First the news about the 10 medical AID workers killed, for absolutely no justifiable reason. People that were there, out of the kindness of their hearts, to help the Afghan..

A riot between inmates in the Matamoros, Tamaulipas prison resulted in the death of 14 federal prisoners on Saturday August 7, 2010.

The state police chief, Jose Ives Soberon Tijerina, said that the prisoners who died were all new transfers….

Fête nationale sans roi d’Arabie saoudite

You may not know it from watching the initially fanfare surrounding Barack Obama, but the Arab world still has an awful streak of anti-black racism.

Racism against blacks is often casual with Arabs,…