The basic objectives of demonetisation - or currency ban announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2016 - have not been met and the measure has had an adverse impact on the economy and GDP growth, former President Pranab Mukherjee writes in the fourth and concluding volume of his memoirs published posthumously and released without fanfare on Tuesday

It was their shared empathy for homeless dogs that sparked an unlikely friendship

Among the multitudes of tombs in the "City of the Dead" in Cairo, there lies buried a lone Indian -- an eminent scholar, writer, debonair statesman and a leader of the Indian freedom movement

A valuable read, Dr. Srimal Fernando’s clear and considered thoughts on current and future South Asian relations in his recently-released book are incredibly insightful for policy analysts

At a time when inter-faith marriages have come under pressure and Uttar Pradesh has even promulgated an anti-conversion ordinance, a new book contends that former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was vehemently opposed to discrimination based on faith and that religious conversions deeply offended his sensibilities - but he accepted them

"I hope that I have managed to establish who Devika Rani really was

Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Atal Bihari Vajpayee spoke to each other on the phone at least five times during the course of the 1999 Kargil war, with the latter veering to the view that Mr Sharif had been bamboozled by then army chief General Pervez Musharraf into the conflict, The Hindu said on Sunday, quoting from a new book by Mr Vajpayee’s private secretary

"I thought India was pretty jammed with poor people and cows wandering around the streets, witch doctors and people sitting on hot coals and bathing in the Ganges, but I did not realize that anybody thought it was important," President Harry Truman had remarked to Ambassador Chester Bowles in 1951

Nothing intrinsic stands in the way of India and China having friendly relations and should they be able to recalibrate their ties, this new compact would have multidimensional possibilities, including joint patrolling of the Malacca Straits through which 75 per cent of the world's commercial sea traffic passes, says a new book by economist-author and Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy

A former Indian military captain has unveiled off late a new behind the scene story to add to the prelude of Pakistani surrender in 1971, sketching the first moments of the victors' interactions with the defeated Pakistani forces

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a bolt from the blue. This is a kind of crisis that most of us are unlikely to experience more than once in our lifetimes. Individuals and companies are trying hard to cope and adapt

Manmohan Singh was preoccupied with saving his coalition during his second stint while Narendra Modi was "autocratic" in his first term as prime minister, former President Pranab Mukherjee wrote in the fourth and concluding volume of his memoirs to be posthumously published next month

India’s politico-bureaucratic establishment remained 'sea blind' in the first two decades after Independence despite having a 7516.6 km vast coastline to defend

Pakistan was born amid communal violence and the collective consciousness of danger. Right from the outset, democracy was up for debate between the politicians nurtured by the British Raj and an orthodox clergy that advocated a utopia in which Islam was to be the ideological guide

For this former Special Forces officer in the UK Navy, making the world record of climbing all 14 of the world's highest peaks above 8000-meters (called the 'eight-thousanders') in a record time of six months and six days, it was about proving to the world the reach of human body and mind