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Thursday, September 25, 2025
TopicMamallapuram

Topic: Mamallapuram

All the PM’s interpreters — the select IFS officers who translate and keep many secrets

The role of interpreters has taken on new meaning under PM Modi who is looking to forge personal chemistry with leaders via informal summits.

From Wuhan spirit to Chennai vision, Modi-Xi agree differences shouldn’t dominate discourse

Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale says PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to create a separate mechanism on trade, investment and services.

India isn’t China’s economic or military equal but Mamallapuram lets Modi stand as tall as Xi

Wearing a crisp white Tamil veshti and a cream angavastram, Modi played the storyteller to the visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping.

What can Modi-Xi agree on to call their Mamallapuram meeting a success?

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have a one-on-one meeting Saturday morning in the temple town of Mamallapuram.

Mamallapuram ‘informal’ summit set to begin, Modi & Xi to discuss trade, border and Kashmir

The resort town of Mamallapuram has been turned into a fortress for the Modi-Xi summit. India & China will discuss issues that have come up since Wuhan.

Modi & Xi don’t need to sign a dozen trade pacts to make second informal summit a success

The two popular leaders will have to seriously work towards assuring their constituencies that it is imperative to keep the region free of crises.

Modi and Xi are unequal leaders who won’t tango in Mamallapuram but size each other up

There is virtually no comparison between the economic strength of India and China. And yet, Modi is employing all his resources to stand eyeball-to-eyeball with Xi.

On Camera

Bads of Bollywood brought Emraan Hashmi out of our guilty pleasure closet, made him cool

With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Govt inks deal with HAL for 97 new Tejas Mk1A; previous order’s deliveries likely to begin next yr

There were no plans to have Mk1A version. However, compromise was reached between HAL & IAF in 2015 since original plan for getting Mk2 would've been time-consuming affair.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.