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New Delhi: With Japan intending to prepare itself for a defence shield in East Asia, it has found a reliable partner in India. Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera is on a four-day visit to India since January 5.

New Delhi: After almost a two decade the India's Presidential Palace - Rashtrapati Bhavan is hosting the stay of a Head of the State.

It is evident that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh quietly played the game of foiling ‘All The Rahul Show’ at the gala 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas beginning from 7 January. Singh deliberately used the official venue – National Media Centre – on last Friday to declare Rahul Gandhi's 'outstanding credentials' for being the prime ministerial candidate from the Congress party for the forthcoming 2014 polls. This has come under a barrage of criticisms.

The Gregorian calendar says it is January now, so for a very many people, it is a new year. One near-constant thing about New Year days, birthdays, 100th anniversaries and the like, is that nothing is very different before and after that day. That does not stop us from making New Year resolutions or seminars about the special relevance of some dead man’s centennial. While each one of us may harbour private dreams about the year 2014 of Common Era, it is events and processes happening around us that would actually shape the year.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the dramatic entry of KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala into the State Cabinet as the Home Minister revive the electoral fortunes of the Congress?

New Delhi: India has no intention to close down its Mission in South Sudan at present A team of senior Indian officials led by Sandeep Kumar Joint Secretary (West Asia & North Africa) in the Ministry of External Affairs left for Juba on Saturday to assess the situation there, sources in the Indian External Affairs Ministry said.

New Delhi: India gives another blow to US in diplomacy in retaliation to the harrasment of its envoy, Divyani in New York. It has asked the US Embassy in Delhi not to screen any movies at the American Center without obtaining a licence.

With the general elections barely three months away, the post-poll scenario looks extremely grim. The possibility — of either the Congress or the BJP—coming anywhere near the magic figure of 272 appears a mirage. Therefore, the fight between the two national parties is for achieving the status of single largest party. A study of BJP’s performance in the last four Lok Sabha elections, starting from 1998, reveals that the party with its present strength and the existing allies, will find it difficult to touch its all-time high of 182 seats registered in 1998 and 1999, let alone 272-Plus.

After CWG, 2G and Coalgate, the poll-bound UPA government now seems to be preparing itself to face a yet another big-time case of corrupt intent involving changes in cost audit rules in the newly created Companies Act to benefit industry and the corporate sector billions of dollars per annum at the cost of the exchequer and consumers. The draft new rules, if allowed in their current scope and content, will substantially undermine the role of cost audit of products and services with effect from April 1 giving industry liberty to fiddle with cost statements to manipulate prices and profits. They open up the biggest single door of ‘authorised’ corporate corruption, making it potentially a mother of all scams.

New Delhi: India has decided to invite an influential Tamilian from Malaysia to be the Chief Guest at the three-day twelveth gala conference of Overseas Indian being hosted here from January 7, thereby indicating that it has not forgone the interests of Tamil people in Malaysia and Sri Lanka.