It’s a tropical paradise at the Emerald, Maldives
Around 40 minutes of seaplane ride from Maldives’ Velana international airport takes one to the quaintly named Fasmendhoo Island on...
Kagi, Maldives, an island of solitude and wellness
In the middle of the Indian Ocean, about an hour’s speedboat ride from Maldives’ Velana international airport is located the...
Garcetti and China: Unease over Biden’s ambassador pick for India
New Delhi: Eric Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles, is an illustrious man. A star in the Democratic Party, he is...
‘Maldives is open for tourism and a safe haven for travellers’
‘Maldives was granted the “Safe Travel” stamp by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and Velana International Airport received...
True blue ocean: A Maldives diary
Maldives has a one-island one-resort concept. The islands are private and secluded, with arrivals from outside limited to guests for...
As China lashes out, everyone has to be concerned: Gordon Chang
New Delhi: Only “a few people in senior Communist Party circles truly know what is behind China’s new aggressiveness, what...
Caught between India and China, Lanka worries about blowback
Sources close to Sri Lanka’s power centre say that the way the political scenario is evolving in their country should...
Chup chap kamal chhap: How Mamata’s citadel came under siege
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha election results from West Bengal are more a story of Trinamool Congress’ stunning downfall than...
Vishwanath Corridor will be ready by June 2021: CEO of Kashi temple trust
‘We have paid every single person who has been shifted out of this place, including the illegal encroachers.’ Varanasi:...
Last mile delivery in Varanasi: A diary
If government for the poor is the avowed aim of the PM, there is no doubt that it is also...
Modi’s Varanasi sun rises in East UP
BJP is banking on Varanasi, which is Purvanchal’s religious, cultural and commercial nerve centre, to do well in the region....
Politics is about chemistry, which is in favour of BJP: Manoj Sinha
‘I hope all sections of society vote for development. Much work has been done by the Modi government for the...
Development puts up a stiff challenge to caste in Ghazipur
Like elsewhere in Varanasi’s vicinity, road building activities are going on everywhere in Ghazipur. Ghazipur: On the eastern fringes...
Assam worries if dying fires of identity politics stoked again
CAB has given rise to fears among Assam’s indigenous population of becoming a minority in their own land. Guwahati...
CAB not an issue, development is, so BJP will sweep: Assam Minister
‘Congress is playing a double game. Rahul Gandhi or Congress party is saying something different in Brahmaputra Valley and something...
BJP facing CAB headwinds in Assam
But for its insistence on pursuing the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), BJP would have swept Assam, easily. Now it is...
Song and dance and smartphones, an Assam diary
The most vocal supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Guwahati invariably turned out to be migrants either from Uttar...
Khilonjiya issue bothers educated Gauhati
Thanks to BJP’s CAB move, Upamanyu Hazarika is getting some traction among Gauhati’s educated elite, making BJP’s harshest critics and...
Bengal gears up for Mamata Didi vs Uncle Modi in sullen silence
Kolkata/New Delhi: Something is going on in Bengal. In silence, in hushed tones, in drawing room discussions, face to face...
Voices from the ground: A Telangana election diary
The young state will hold its first ever Assembly elections on 7 December. HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: LAND WOES IN...
Naidu’s plan is to make KCR part of the Congress-TDP front: BJP
‘KCR laid a trap right from day one, and knowingly or unknowingly BJP went into it. The trap was to...
We will win a minimum of 80 seats: TRS
‘The CM’s welfare schemes have benefited 1.5 crore people.’ HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: In Telangana, even rivals of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi...
We will get 60-plus seats on our own: Congress
‘Congress is a grand old party. We have experienced leaders. Saying that Congress is being remotely controlled by Chandrababu Naidu,...
Perception battles reality in Telangana
HYDERABAD: The run-up to the Telangana Assembly elections is turning out to be a battle of perceptions, much before the...
