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King Kong is back again - not climbing the Empire State Building clutching a distressed damsel in his colossal clutches, but as the mighty protector of a remote island in the 1970s. "Kong: Skull Island" opens in movie theaters worldwide this week as the 8th ...

A prestigious US university and Tata Consultancy Services have collaborated to set up a state-of-the-art facility here which its promoters say would lay the groundwork for the fourth industrial revolution by conducting cutting edge research. The collaboration ...

'Whether it is the One Belt One Road project or building relationships in the Indian Ocean Region -- supposedly our area of concern -- the Chinese are seriously outpacing us,' points out Vice-Admiral Premvir Das (retd). IMAGE: People's Liberation Army troops during a military parade in Tiananmen Square. Photograph: Reuters Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his tenure by inviting neighbouring country heads, among them Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, to his swearing-in ceremony. This was ...

On the back of higher award by the Finance Commission raising their share in the centre's tax kitty, state governments have substantially increased public spending giving a big impetus to infrastructure and urbanisation which, at 31 per cent, is at an ...

WHAT MAKES A love story? ‘Love’—well, many people have that. But a ‘story’—only a handful. And what is a better plot twist than death to convert life into literature? Insomniac City is one such love story, immersed in affection and respect, and ...

Haridwar: Narendra Modi leaned to whisper in the ear of the man sitting cross-legged and barefoot next to him, the one clad in saffron robes with a long beard and squinty gaze. It was late in the afternoon of March 23, 2014 in New Delhi and the start of ...

Iranians yearning for more freedom at home and less isolation abroad have emphatically re-elected President Hassan Rouhani, throwing down a challenge to the conservative clergy that still holds ultimate sway. Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli declared ...

The first article in our series Globalisation Under Threat looks at work from the 1930s that anticipated the backlash against globalisation. Economists Eli Heckscher (1879-1952) and Bertil Ohlin (1899-1979) died more than three decades ago. But it’s ...

Masters of intrigue and subterfuge, the Indian Princes through linkages with Paramountcy thought they were infallible. Birthed by the British who chose them to be their allies against the nationalist headwinds with the Congress as its vanguard, the Rulers ...