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New Delhi: India is all set to reward its faithful strategic partner, Bhutan with a package of Rs 5,400 crore to finance its five-year plan and an additional Rs 500 crore for economic stimulus.

Ever heard of a run on a country’s central bank? The continuing collapse of Indian rupee threatens to lead to a run on the Indian Reserve Bank’s foreign exchange coffer. Both foreign financial institutions (FIIs) and rich resident Indians are fast losing faith in the Indian currency and the country’s economic stability.

Who gained and who lost in the recent confrontation on the Ayodhya temple issue between the VHP and SP? The VHP’s renewed push aimed to build a temple at the disputed Ramjanmabhoomi/Babri Masjid site may ultimately not only polarize the Hindutva votes, but also sharpen communal politics in Uttar Pradesh to benefit both SP and BJP.

The National Security Archive, a Washington-based NGO, has made the sensational disclosure that the United States launched secret spy missions against China from an airbase in Odisha after the China War of 1962. The missions, using the (in)famous U-2 reconnaissance plane, were approved by none other than Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, an apostle of non-alignment.

It was a coincidence that on the day the rationalist, Narendra Dabholkar, was shot dead in Pune, the newspapers carried the report that all the local bodies in Niyamgiri, Odisha, had voted against the proposed mining for bauxite in the region by a multinational company.

New Delhi: India will be represented by its Minister of State for Defence, Jitendra Singh at the two-day 2nd ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (Plus) ADMM Plus beginning on August 28 at Brunei.

Haryana’s political scenario is set to change. A close look at the developments of the past few months will help perceive the form the changes may take.

Rising Muslim-Buddhist tensions in South Asia are emerging as a new destablising factor in the regional as well as domestic security scenarios of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There has been an alarming escalation in the tensions between the Congress and its ally, the Kerala Congress(M), which is threatening to affect the cohesion and stability of the already (dis)United Democratic Front(UDF).

The most optimistic assumption at the end of a tumultuous August week in our financial market was that the rupee might after all stabilise at rs.60 to the dollar, by the end of fiscal 2014 (March), from the peaks it was scaling to above 65, let alone the uncertainty still hanging over its course in the coming days and months.