1971: History’s deadliest storm
Write the authors: ‘American-built B-57s and F-86s launched from airfields in West Pakistan and dropped hundreds of bombs all across...
Sreekumar’s web of lies in the ISRO case unravels, but not fully
New Delhi: R.B. Sreekumar, a former cop who would often recite verses from the Gita to prove his spirituality but...
No power from the barrel of the gun: The life and times of a Naxalite
Charu Majumdar’s death crushed the Naxalite movement and CPI(ML) was fragmented into various groups. Charu Majumdar, who made Mao...
Inside the life of Ba, Kasturba Gandhi
Her face was peaceful against the tumult of the nation, India was then under British rule. It was about sacrifice,...
Commerce Ministry snubs Tea Board, planters surprised
Tea Board’s move to temporarily ban a planter for using excessive chemicals in its tea garden in Dooars had been...
Bengal arrests haunt Mamata Banerjee
It is reliably learnt that the TMC may ask Partha Chatterjee to step down amid pressure from the Opposition as...
Government may shut down PCRA, focus on EVs
Government’s thought process is simple: If India is focusing on electric vehicles, then the present focus on petroleum conservation needs...
Vested interests seek to malign Indian airline companies
New Delhi: Interesting tales spread on the net about some of India’s air carriers have triggered breaking headlines, although not many...
No relief likely for family of Big Bull
In a newly launched website, Jyoti, late Harshad Mehta’s wife, has made some big claims, nearly 21 years after Mehta’s...
Sanjeev Kumar: The actor and his love stories
His biography, ‘Sanjeev Kumar: The Actor We All Loved’, written by his nephew Uday Jariwala and Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, has...
Gupta brothers face trouble in Dubai and South Africa
New Delhi: Total heat is mounting on the India-born Gupta brothers, charged with huge financial embezzlement during their stay in South...
Rediscover nationalism and favourable power balance through Jaishankar’s book
He (read, the government) wants India to avoid alliances in the name of national interest and advocates plurilateralism. An...
Walking inside the mind of human bombs
Anirudhya Mitra has explained details of his investigation into Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination by the LTTE in 90 Days, The True...
The curious case of two missing gold coins
One of the coins weighed 14.5 kg and the other a little over 1 kg. The sheer historical value of...
A great solution to child sexual abuse
Rituparna Chatterjee, author of The Water Phoenix, tosses some horrific numbers. She says over one billion children aged between two...
The curious case of Hasan Ali: Needed, witnesses for prosecution
New Delhi: The first witness in the Hasan Ali case, now almost 15 years old, is likely to be produced...
Should Sri Sri to go to Colombo again?
The Tiger’s Pause is the fascinating tale of a spiritual and wellness guru’s efforts to end one of Asia’s bloodiest...
India’s big wheat export conundrum
NEW DELHI: There’s a big debate in the cor- ridors of power in the national capital and it revolves around one...
The Line of Mercy has a message: Listen to the underdog
The author explores the society within the prison, and outside it and argues why prisons guarantee nothing, no reforms, and...
Breaking barriers with non breakable helmets
With her new venture Tiivra, Alpana Parida intends to challenge the conventional wisdom that gut instincts drive the best marketing...
India enduring coal shortages, power cuts and cancelled trains
NEW DELHI: Bizarre it may sound, the Indian Railways are asking travellers to get off passenger trains because the tracks...
Again remembering the thinking actor
Suman Ghosh directed Soumitra Chatterjee in five movies, two picked up national awards, and would routinely visit the star for...
A brutal read on British imperialism, exploitation and coercion
M.J. Akbar meticulously explains in the book how British racism was of the worst kind, as seen during the Britishers’...
Alrosa roughs are not ‘conflict diamonds’, says India
NGOs supporting a ban on Russian exports to India are silent about the consequent shift of the industry to China....
