History, perhaps, has not witnessed a battle as bizarre as the ongoing tussle between an archaeologist and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for possession of “nearly 4,000 antiquities” retrieved from the fifth century AD site at Sirpur in eastern Chhattisgarh district of Mahasamund.

Priority banking or privilege banking is a relatively new term in the Indian banking.

Political reconciliation is nowhere in sight in Afghanistan. Serious dialogue between the Afghan government and the Taliban has not begun, and may take months to kick-start after Taliban’s overreach in Doha. Yet, anticipating the return of the Taliban, the gains of international intervention already appear to be in trouble.

For them, failure is the first step towards success. The more they falter, the stronger their willpower grows, pushing them to rise higher in life. Hoping against hope, they walk through a tunnel’s darkness only to find light at the end of it.

Besides dangling before the US President George Bush Jr, the enticing prospects of the crude oil price plummeting to $12 per barrels once the US had invaded and occupied Iraqi oil fields, the Cabals in the Pentagon and the state department had also painted an equally fascinating picture of the entire Arab world blooming with democracy. But what actually followed is history.

Elections are not scheduled until next year, but electoral politics is very much in the air. Two of the country’s top English-language news channels are already running polls to predict who will form the next government at the Centre.

The excitement of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation 60 years ago in the royal family has been revealed in private home movies on display at the Buckingham Palace as part of the Queen’s Coronation Exhibition, starting on Saturday at Buckingham Palace to coincide with the summer opening of the state rooms in the palace.

Working through organisational diagnostics, no amount of probing can ever decipher all the reasons that account for poor managers. You can unearth several reasons why some people are poorer at managing things than others but foremost amongst these will remain an individual’s personality and background.

Hundreds of children across the country are falling ill after consuming iron and folic acid tablets under the weekly iron and folic acid supplementation (WIFS) programme to combat anaemia.

Sahir Ludhianvi is regarded as one of the most successful lyricists of Hindi film industry. An eminent Urdu poet of his time, he established his own distinct identity in Bombay in the 5th, 6th and 7th decade of the past century as one of the best Hindi-Urdu lyricist.