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New Delhi: The US has cautioned Iran not to “miscalculate” its position and also that of the UN and other relevant international agencies. It urged India to take advantage of the new regime and convince Iran on the need for global peace and security.

New Delhi: A committee has been set up to review the existing DAVP norms for releasing government advertisement to different newspapers and periodicals informed the Minister of Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari here on Sunday.

It is now understandable. I mean the myth of Ganga coming down to earth (martalok) from her heavenly world (swargalok). The munis and rishis or people who had given the story of Ganga’s earthly appearance would probably have seen some natural phenomenon like the cloudburst over Uttarakhand last week.

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party is desperately wooing the powerful Brahmin community in the name of social engineering to win maximum seats in Lok Sabha in 2014 polls.

The growing irrelevance of G-8 in a world so vastly different from the ‘cold war’ days of mid-1970s - when it was launched, on France’s initiative, as a group of leading economic powers to co-ordinate essentially global economic policies - was in ample evidence at its latest Summit in Northern Ireland (June 17-18).

BJP leaders may not believe it but Narendra Modi is fast losing his popular appeal. Look at Modi who had won Gujarat assembly election for third time in succession, routing the Congress and his opponents like Keshubhai Patel. His popularity at that time soared highest ever and now it is going down equally sharply. According to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, “the Modi wave was just a bubble fuelled by corporate money”.

New Delhi: India is likely to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, Syria and the evolving ASEAN-centric geopolitical archetecture on the visit of the US Secretary of State John F Kerry.

The third time prime minister of Pakistan Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif takes on the yearning with a grit for a new Pakistan, which is very different from the dazzling-but-vacuous concept of ‘Naya Pakistan’ of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan. The very choice of National Party leader, Abdul Malik Baloch as the chief minister of Baluchistan - a much-respected leader, for whom over 120 NGOs appealed to the new PM for leading the troubled Pakhtun province - deserves praise.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The confrontationist clouds scudding across Kerala’s political sky have thickened further with both the United Democratic Front (UDF) Government and the Opposition Left Democratic Front (LDF) refusing to relent from their positions on the unfolding solar scam.

It seems cheating is endemic to modern advertising and marketing, especially when it comes to multinational corporations operating in host countries with weak regulatory frameworks. They would go to any extent to mislead consumers, the public and the government with atrocious claims. The latest example of one such claim is a spate of TV ads by increasing number of India outfits of some of the giant multinational FMCG companies rather shamelessly asking consumers to buy brands – from soaps and detergents to health food and baby care products - to support their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes. Aren’t such CSR-linked consumer ads unethical and misleading, if not totally illegal?