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The Centre has withdrawn the SPG cover of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and his wife. (Photo: Asian Age)

Modi should reinstate SPG cover to Gandhis

The government has said in Parliament that security to the Gandhis has not been withdrawn .

24 Nov 2019 6:58 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Maharashtra: Modi's poll prowess fearsome

The Sena, the Congress and the NCP fear increasing irrelevance because of the BJP.

17 Nov 2019 12:03 AM IST

Hindu activists climb up the dome of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya which was quickly demolished by end of the day. (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Ayodhya verdict sets precedent: Doctrine of necessity invoked?

It has become clear that legally India has done what the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the BJP were demanding all this time.

10 Nov 2019 12:28 AM IST

A statement from the Union minister for information technology instead said India had asked WhatsApp to explain what the nature of the breach was and what it was doing to protect the privacy of Indians.

When govt snoops, it's never held to account

The important fact here is that all of the NSO Group's clients are national governments.

3 Nov 2019 12:42 AM IST

US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Patriotic Trump: To impeach or not?

Presidents are immune from crimes committed while they are in office but they can be removed through the process of...

27 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST

There are chances of Pakistan following this worldwide trend not so much for reporting, but because of the haphazard world of social media.

Sanctions on Pak might not curb terror

It is essentially those Kashmiris who are motivated enough to fight against the Indian state who are keeping our Army...

20 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST

Ray Kurzweil (Photo: AFP)

A very interesting future awaits, courtesy tech

Our current problem is the data rate, meaning we are slow to input data because we using only our thumbs to type.

13 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST

The United States has fought its recent wars with guided missiles because manned aircraft are dangerous (to the pilot) and ineffective.

War, as we have known it, is no more

The fighter plane is 100-year-old technology, having been first used in World War I in 1914.

6 Oct 2019 4:39 AM IST

World needs to be clear on what terrorism is

The lack of unanimity amongst us on the issue of terrorism dents those very principles that are the basis for the...

29 Sept 2019 7:21 AM IST

We have seen an example of one such action, and that is the cut in the rate of taxes paid by Indias corporates. The stock market reacted very positively to this step by the Narendra Modi government and we shall see in the coming days if this enthusiasm continues and delivers stronger growth. The state that is efficient can devise and implement policies that it believes can boost growth. However, this can happen only when the state is efficient in doing this. (Representational image)

Can a risk-averse India be a $5 trillion economy?

The first, and this may surprise some readers, is the former Soviet Union.

22 Sept 2019 3:11 AM IST

The irony in its behaviour, and its impact on Saarc, lies in the fact that it was India that stalled the framing of the Saarc Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism (RCST).

Let's have free movement within Saarc

The citizens of Poland and Portugal can move to London or Copenhagen freely and set up home and family there.

15 Sept 2019 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with ISRO Chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan after connection with the Vikram lander was lost during soft landing of Chandrayaan 2 on lunar surface, in Bengaluru on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Exploring space: Our next evolutionary step

The next step in such a scale would be to make life and consciousness multi-planetary.

8 Sept 2019 7:48 AM IST