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Events slated to take place during 2013-2014 may prove to be a turning point for Jammu and Kashmir. The first event was the May 11 elections in Pakistan which have catapulted Nawaz Sharif as prime minister-designate. The second will be the Lok Sabha elections in India which will decide whether the Congress-led UPA or the BJP-led NDA will form the government. The third event will be the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir to be held late in 2014 after Omar Abdullah completes his six-year term as chief minister. The fourth, an important but, in a way negative event, will be the US forces pullout from Afghanistan and the likelihood of the Pakistan and Afghanistan-based terror organizations intensifying their activities in Pakistan and India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir.

It was meant to be an exercise aimed at refurbishing the badly tarnished image of the Congress and redress the ‘communal imbalance’ in the State Cabinet. But the move is threatening to degenerate into a no-holds-barred factional feud.

New Delhi: About 83% of the people in India consider China as a security threat while at the same time 63% Indians like relations with China to strengthen.

New Delhi : India’s greater involvement in maintaining internal security and defence of Afghanistan post-NATO forces withdrawal is likely to decided when the Afghan President Hamid Karzai will be here on a three-day visit beginning on Monday.

Two studies by the World Bank and OECD make rosy projections for developing countries to account for 50 per cent of global accumulated capital stock, with more than two-thirds of world investment, by 2030 but these assumptions are on a given set of policies to unfold and challenges to be overcome.

Can the Central Bureau of Investigation be truly made independent or granted complete autonomy? Perhaps not, till politicians stop using the premier investigation agency for settling scores with their rivals. Once in opposition politicians decry political misuse of the agency but when in office, they cheerfully lord over the CBI.

As the Trinamool Congress(TMC) Government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee steps into the third year of its tenure in West Bengal, official celebrations have been muted, if not sombre.

It may sound rather odd that India’s public sector (PSU), set up with great fanfare during the Nehru-Indira Gandhi era to champion the cause of the country’s socialist agenda, is now being projected as a symbol of success of the economy’s conversion into market capitalism. This is despite the fact that only a small portion of their equity is sold to the public by the government in the last two decades of India’s economic and market reform. And, the big buzz around these PSU shares belies their miniscule market presence.

New Delhi: After the recent face off at Daulat Beg Oldi, India and China are slated to discuss the draft of the border defence cooperation agreement at the prime ministerial level.

New Delhi: Thanks to the influence of tropical cyclone, Mahasen. The South-West Monsoon on Friday made a debut in the Andaman Sea and southern parts of Bay of Bengal, three days ahead of its scheduled arrival.