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New Delhi: With a view to ensure cyber security in the country, the Indian government has approved setting up of two semiconductor wafer fabrication (FAB) manufacturing facilities in India.

Unless a miracle happens, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will perform disastrously in both West Bengal and Assam in the ensuing 16th parliamentary elections. The extravagant campaign with media hype, branding it as the ‘Hindu nationalist party’ that the Dakar-based Marxist economist Samir Amin characterised as a party of the ‘rightwing Hindu comprador’, will end in a damp squib. In West Bengal, the possibility of re-election of its sitting MP Jaswant Singh from the Darjeeling constituency seems very bleak as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) may not support his candidacy this time again.

Why is the United States so paranoid about India’s pharma industry? How genuine are its concerns over oft-alleged laxity in manufacturing processes and practices followed by India’s drug manufacturers? Can India’s drug industry afford to take the concerns of the powerful US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lightly?

New Delhi: Just few days before the finance minister P Chidambaram is slated to present the interim Budget in Parliament and annouce the country's growrth figure, a study by the United Nations said that the Indian economy grew at 4.8% in 2013 and is slated to grow at 5.3% in 2014 and 5.7% in 2015.

The Congress had been preparing itself somewhat leisurely for what may turn out to be a battle for its survival, in the April-May elections to the 16th Lok Sabha, as if lending credence to its widely perceived rejection by the electorate for its sins of omission and commission. The Congress-led UPA gives a look of weariness after ten long years in the saddle while its complacency in the middle years had done damage to both the economy and reputation of the rulers not only here but abroad as well.

With general elections round the corner, two states – Delhi and Andhra Pradesh - appear to be moving towards President’s rule as chief ministers of both the states are in a mood to quit for different reasons. They are two different personalities and can no way be clubbed together as comparing them may be like apples and oranges. Their situations are also entirely different but both want to leave as martyrs for their respective causes. While Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is threatening to quit if the Janlokpal bill is not passed by the Delhi Assembly, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Reddy wants to quit if the Telengana bill is passed by Parliament.

New Delhi: India is slated to provide indelible ink to Fiji for elections to be conducted under its new Constitution for effecting adult universal sufferage for the first time.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party and its supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav are desperate to project as they are the only one political party that is in direct fight with the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.

Woody Allen is quite an idol to many people. They like what films he makes, what he says, and often nod at what they think are ‘deep’ statements on life itself. Recently, he has denied the allegations by his foster daughter that he had sexually molested her when she was 7. She describes the sickening details and bit-by-bit the pretension behind the awkward, bespectacled one comes apart. When such idols are exposed, the reaction of idol-worshippers are a good clue to how sections of society are happy to look away from the sins of one person, if they like some other aspect of the person. Whether these aspects are different from each other is a different matter.

The alacrity with which the Ministry of Finance has come out with a clarification on the recent findings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the former has disbursed Rs 37,365 crore in interest on excess tax refund without proper authorization from Parliament is astounding at the best and confounding at the worst.