Opinion
China, Pak & Kashmir: Testing time for India
China, reportedly supported by Britain, sought some outcome or at least a press statement on the meeting held on Friday.
Wary China watches India-Bhutan bonhomie
India has been Bhutan’s biggest trading partner, investor, infrastructure builder and export recipient.
Shocking hospital negligence
As India’s population ages, the demand for surgical intervention for the elderly is likely to go up.
Will a CDS mean the end of inter-service wars?
It would suffice to say that every major military power in the world has a combined defence organisation.
Do populist leaders pose bigger risk to democracy?
Trump has repeatedly ignored constitutional restraints on conflict of interest by apparently using his office to enrich himself further.
Mystic Mantra: Nankana Sahib has a special place in Sikh history
Gurdwara Chowa Sahib in Jhelum town, where Guru Nanak had found water in 1521, will also remain open.
As pound sinks further, grey skies over UK reflect the circling gloom
It sure does — as bets are being laid on how long the Boris Johnson government will last, and when the next election takes place.
UNSC Kashmir session was not good for India
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had a telephonic talk with US president Donald Trump just before the UNSC meeting.
Shastri-Kohli must deliver
Shastri was able to personally hit it off with a performing captain who gained power with his team’s success.
Repression cannot kill millennium-old Kashmiri dream
Narendra Modi can now claim that he has accomplished what A.B. Vajpayee and L.K. Advani could not.
50 shades of grey in ‘reintegration’ of J&K
The government needed to apply the healing touch rather than alienate the Kashmiris at this juncture.
India’s internal conflicts are bleeding it out
The reality is that all occupying armies, with armed men living far from home, and amid hostile populations, behave in the same way.
Dilli Ka Babu: No more pay panels?
The panel suggested that the pay matrix can be reviewed periodically without waiting for 10 years for another pay commission’s recommendations.
‘Jammu & Ladakh have been victims of Nehru’s sympathy for Sheikh Abdullah’
Article 370 was just an administrative mechanism between the Union government and the state — it was nothing more than that, says Rakesh Sinha.
Interview of the Week
‘I don’t see any Modi tsunami... both Cong and NDA have failed’
On Karnataka pivots the BJP’s hope of launching the southern leg of its Congress-Mukt Bharat operation.
How Kerala flattened the curve, lowest death rates: Health minister Shailaja explains
Health department constituted 18 expert groups in training health care staff for detailed stock-taking of beds, equipment in each hospital
‘India can be argumentative but not intolerant...’
Demonetisation has immobilised a large amount of cash, a part of which was black money on which no tax was being paid, says Pranab.
‘Mayawati no longer talking about dalits... she is scared of losing upper caste votes’
Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has been in the thick of Dalit politics since the dilution of the SC/ST Atrocities Act.
‘Impact of #MeToo will take time... It’s a step towards a just world’
The Act allows for complaints to be made within 30 days of the incident, and in case of delay within an additional 30 days.
The Age Debate
Home truths on foreign soil?
Rahul Gandhi criticising the Modi government in the US is not an insult to India.
The games politicians play
Congress has itself to blame for defection of its MLAs.