The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) celebrates its 33rd anniversary today. The interim ICG was founded on February 1, 1977, with two frigates, five patrol boats and a few officers and sailors from the Indian Navy, with the aim of carrying out constabulary functions in India’s 2.01 million sq km EEZ (exclusive economic zone), extending 200 nautical miles (nm), seawards from the coast.

When you think art, you think Paris. The art capital of the world, the film centre of the world, the centre of literature and ideas, the mecca of food and fashion... Images arise of people of all ages from all parts of the world, sitting in cafes engaged in passionate argument about art, literature, cinema, theatre, about ideas and ideals.

DURING WORLD War II, Eva Kor, a 10-year-old Jewish girl, was marched off to Auschwitz with her family. She and her twin sister Miriam got separated from her parents and other siblings, and she never saw them again. They were gassed. Her first view upon entering the death camp was one of scattered corpses of children — stiff, hollowed out, naked, fly-infested.

It’s an oasis of tradition and modernity under one roof. But the contrasts are never at loggerheads with each other. They rather bridge the gap of ages between them.

Tata Steel recently announced to build a 200-bedded hospital near its proposed Rs 18,000-crore integrated steel project at Gobarghati near Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex in Orissa.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram, defence minister A.K. Antony and Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor have warned about the possibility of a repeat of 26/11, when the attack by highly trained Pakistani terrorists rocked Mumbai, shocked India and shook New Delhi.

A man who is not a Communist at the age of 20 is a fool. Any man who is still a Communist at the age of 30 is an even bigger one.