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Every politician has a weak spot. Rajiv Gandhi's was Bofors. Narendra Modi's the Gujarat riots. Whatever may be their ultimate achievements, their vulnerability on account of such fateful missteps continue to haunt them throughout their life - and even after death. In Manmohan Singh's case, it will probably be his failure to act against his scam-tainted telecom minister A. Raja, which will mar his otherwise nearly impeccable record.

The forthcoming visit of the US President is unlikely to provide any relief to India in the area of outsourcing of jobs, feels former Campaign Chief of Staff of Barack Obama.

India launched its first National South Pole Expedition this year, coinciding with the international centenary celebration of man's reaching South Pole in 1911.

A time has come for New Delhi to have a second look at its Kashmir policy. This is imperative for three reasons. One. China's not so subtle moves to become a stakeholder in the Kashmir imbroglio. Two. Revival by Pakistan of its aggressive postures on Kashmir. Three, The conflicting stands the Kashmiri separatists as also some Indian political parties have adopted for resolving the Kashmir problem.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tinkering won't do. Bold and imaginative steps to arrest the rapid down-the-hill slide are the need of the hour. That is the clear message thumped out by the voters of Kerala to the Left Democratic Front Government (LDF), which has suffered a stunning defeat in the local bodies elections held on October 23 and 25, 2010.

New York: Afghan opium production has decreased by almost 50 per cent this year, the United Nations said in a new report released today, while cautioning that rising prices on the global market may induce farmers to cultivate more of the lucrative crop.

New York: Prospects for job opportunities have worsened in many countries despite evidence that the global economy is growing again in the wake of the recession, and labour markets are likely to remain depressed until 2015, the United Nations labour agency said in a report unveiled today.

New York: Innovations in clean energy technologies are concentrated in six countries - Japan, the United States, Germany, the Republic of Korea (ROK), France and the United Kingdom - according to a new United Nations-backed study.

New York: All countries must protect the human rights of the tens of millions of migrants worldwide who lack proper legal status and are thus more likely to face abuse, prolonged detention and ill-treatment, enslavement, rape or even murder, a United Nations-backed group warned today.

The G-20 meeting at Gyeongju, the unusually fierce campaign for mid-term polls in US and Barack Obama's visit to India and other places — all bear one unmistakable common strain. They reverberate the growing crisis of the modern capitalist system. Initially we were led to believe that the US had only a 'meltdown' caused by the sub-prime problem, and a brief stimulus would put things back on the track. Then it spread and burst into a full-blown global economic collapse.