Good on India. Good on Modi. He has moved the envelope to the edge of the table not so much by telling Pakistan to show the intent but by placing on it a deadline of 72 hours.Time bound deadlines are something India has seldom…

Do you remember when the iPhone 5s was launched with a fingerprint scanner? That was certainly a turning point. Well, Motorola did launch the Atrix in 2011 with a fingerprint scanner. Yet, it was the iPhone that made it a mainstream feature with TouchID.Soon…

Jammu: The Vaishno Devi Shrine Board has asked the DGCA to conduct a detailed safety audit of the helicopter operations between Katra-Sanjichhat sector in Jammu and Kashmir's Katra belt, where a recent chopper crash killed six pilgrims and one pilot.The chopper services, which were…

The fear of revival of terrorism has started haunting Punjab again. A spate of recent incidents suggests that the sub-surface disquiet over matters religion is getting intense in the state and it might prove conducive to the growth of radicalism.The tension in the Sikh…

New Delhi: The facts emerging in the murder of Uzbek escort Shakhnoza Shukurova alias Shahnaz have turned the spotlight on the thriving flesh trade racket in the National Capital. The 19-year-old woman from Tashkent was allegedly invited by another Uzbek woman, Naaz, to join an…

CHENNAI: One hour. 50 mm rainfall. That is the kind of pounding the city took between 4.30 pm and 5.30 pm on Monday after a deceptively sunny day.The sudden downpour not just dragged the city back into sheets of water, but paralysed traffic in…

The iPad Pro can be a laptop replacement – that’s my first take-away from Apple’s newest and biggest iPad.I’m more optimistic about the iPad as a laptop stand-in than I was a few days ago after more hands-on time with the 12.9-inch tablet over…

Antalya: Pressing for the need to delink terror from religion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said some countries still use terrorism as "an instrument of state policy" and the world must act against radicalisation without any political consideration.Modi said terrorism is the main global…

The Tibetan spiritual leader said recent elections in Bihar state - which the BJP lost - showed a "majority of Hindus believed in religious harmony".He was answering a question on "intolerance" in India - an issue that has seen filmmakers, writers and actors return…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister David Cameron met in London on 12-13 November. The two Prime Ministers celebrated the growing strength, breadth and depth of the relations between the two countries. They emphasised that this enduring connection between the UK and India plays…