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The European Union plans more legal action soon against governments that have failed to police emissions test cheating by carmakers in the wake of the Volkswagen diesel scandal, a top official said on Thursday.

An icon to go off roads

The true revolution, however, came with Maruti 800 in the 1980s, since when the Indian automobile industry took off.

17 Sept 2018 12:11 AM IST

Dalit stars political pitch

Dalit star's political pitch

The release at 2.30 am was reportedly attended by hundreds of young dalits from different parts of the country.

16 Sept 2018 12:17 AM IST

Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal has assured of his cooperation in the investigation of the case. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Church must act to save its fair name

Unbiased probes to establish the truth would be a start, much as it will in the case of Bishop Mulakkal.

16 Sept 2018 12:16 AM IST

Prime Minister of Nepal K P Sharma Oli. (Photo: AP/ File)

India-Nepal ties go steadily downhill

A more proximate relationship with China poses obvious practical difficulties one of massive physical distances.

15 Sept 2018 12:27 AM IST

Team India captain Virat Kohli on Tuesday hit back at a journalist when he was asked about the best Indian team in last 15-20 years remark made by coach Ravi Shastri. (Photo: AP)

He's no thinking captain!

In the end, Kohli's squad was incapable of displaying the will to win.

15 Sept 2018 12:23 AM IST

People trying to pull out victims from the ill-fated bus which skidded into a deep gorge on the Kondagattu ghat in Jagtial district on Tuesday. (Photo: DC)

Yet again, no lessons learnt

The sheer inadequacy of transport services, both public and private, is mind-boggling.

13 Sept 2018 7:07 AM IST

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan (Photo: AP)

Heed Rajan's advice to save India's banks

Rajan gave the PMO a list of fraudsters and suggested that if one or two of them were punished, it would send a strong...

13 Sept 2018 7:02 AM IST

Dilemma over Rajiv Gandhi killers

The governor has been urged to act under Article 161 of the Constitution, as other legal avenues for clemency have been...

12 Sept 2018 1:40 AM IST

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (C) and Congress President Rahul Gandhi (L) during Bharat Bandh protest. PTI called by Congress and other parties against fuel price hike and depreciation of the rupee, in New Delhi, Monday, Sept 10, 2018. (PTI Photo)

Bharat Bandh shows government, Opposition mismatch

Mamata Banerjee's Trinamul Congress didn't do so in West Bengal. The SP and BSP did hold sporadic protests in UP.

12 Sept 2018 1:37 AM IST

From sex causing heart attacks to headache being a reason to avoid sex, here are myths that need to be busted (Photo: AFP)

Sex as a bribe is surreal

The Prevention of Corruption Act, since its earliest avatar, was in response to a particular problem within the system.

11 Sept 2018 12:17 AM IST

Supreme Court of India

States must act swiftly, firmly to halt lynchings

The President and the Prime Minister have also spoken up in this regard, raging against mobs taking the law into their...

11 Sept 2018 12:14 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Secretary of Defense James Mattis at the joint press conference after the India-US 2+2 Dialogue, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

A close US embrace can have costs

COMCASA will doubtless bring critical defence strengths essentially communications interoperability .

10 Sept 2018 12:45 AM IST