The eurozone crisis, which seemed to be abating a few months ago, is back on the boil. And this time something may give.
The one country which can ease the eurozone crisis - Germany - is not doing enough by importing more from the rest of Europe.
The US Fed has announced an official inflation rate it will be targeting - 2 percent. It proposes to make policy more transparent.
Yields on eurozone debt have fallen, but don't assume that the crisis is abating. This is just the result of the ECB's liquidity boosting activities.
Everyone and the dog at the lamp-post knows Greece is insolvent and can't repay its debt. If it is allowed to default under controlled conditions, it will be a positive for the markets
More Indians lost lives in World War I than in any other. Most of those who fought, like Gurbux Singh, went to war for economic reasons and life-long Pensions. Most of them were just cannon fodder in a war that had nothing to do with them
Security and terrorism-related issues top the concerns of the Indian strategic establishment. One must not forget that the five years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan (1996-2001) proved to be a security nightmare for India.
It is déjà vu in Pakistan’s theatre of the absurd again as Musharraf finds himself in a snake pit having been indicted by a special court.
Few US ambassadors in India would have had such a disastrous tenure as Powell’s two-year stint in New Delhi has proven to be.
US ambassador Nancy Powell’s resignation is the first real indication that Washington has woken up and is starting to smell the “chai.”
No terror outfit in the world has a proven capability of dealing with such complex avionics.
Editor's note: This is a reader we received on the piece 'Another Cold War? India can’t ignore Crimea crisis in Ukraine'. As per Firstpost policy, the comment has been lightly edited for spellings and grammar.
The former Microsoft boss’s faith in the system that gave him all the money he now spends to fight inequality is perhaps instinctive. But there is ample evidence now that inequality is inbuilt in the capitalist system.
Indian officials believe Raghavan is an old Russia/Soviet Union hand and should be able to smoothen rough edges in the Indo-Russian defence relationship.
Isn't strip and cavity search a violation of human dignity in the US? What are the human rights organization in US doing?
The Indian reaction, screaming Tit for Tat, an Eye for an Eye, will leave everyone blind. It's immature and ridiculous
I just want to reminisce about growing up with “Mandela.” His name was a plank on which we rested many fond hopes for a better world. He always seemed solid. Unbreakable.
Her visit comes at a time when the Indo-US bilateral relationship has seemingly reached a plateau
This was a conscious, deliberate and well-thought policy initiative by the Americans to counter China’s increasingly aggressive moves in the East China Sea vis a vis Japan and to demonstrate Washington’s rock solid support for Japan.
Why Indian racists were not so pleased with America's backlash after Nina Davuluri won Miss America.
The PM will have a nice visit, no doubt, with the right amount of cheer and goodwill but there is no real jaan in it
In the context of the recent continuous tensions on the LOC, it is useful to take a hard look at the unhealthy US-Pakistan relationship of dependence, if only as a reminder of how some things never change.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has acknowledged that truth and assigned S Jaishankar to be India’s next ambassador to the United States, a man he thinks can stem the drift in Indo-US relations and inject new energy, FirstPost has learnt.
Americans will object on Pakistan’s behalf but surely they understand India can’t keep absorbing attacks from both sides – in Afghanistan as on its Jalalabad consulate and along the LOC.
At the present rate of habitat loss due to rapid and mindless development, the World Bank’s promise of doubling the number of wild tigers by 2022 is a joke.
The failure cuts across party lines. If you have BJP leaders who should read their speeches in Hindi with simultaneous translation rather than in English, you have Congress Party leaders whose pomposity can give you nausea.
While @BarackObama may have the largest number of followers, he is also the “least connected”. If the issue is digital diplomacy on platforms like Twitter, connections between world leaders becomes more important than number of FLU (followers like us).
Here’s some of the fun William and Kate could have indulged in if they were just our run-of-the-mill celebrities instead of being the blue-blooded variety
What possibility does the yet-to-be-born royal baby have for privacy?
The exhaustive 336-page report is a strong indictment of the entire government machinery – from the all-powerful ISI and the military to the lowly beat policeman and revenue officer.