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In fact even the British officers who first examined the remains at Harappa did not fully understand what they were and many of the first-rate bricks that were found there were used to build the railways.

Our history is older than Aryan influx

A village right next to it is populated by Punjabis who would have lived there for generations without any interest in...

10 March 2019 12:10 AM IST

Abhinandan Varthaman finally emerged at 9.10 pm(IST) at the Wagah checkpost on the Pakistani side, accompanied by Pakistani rangers, the Indian air attache posted in the High Commission in Islamabad. (Photo: PTI)

We must think beyond rivalling Pakistan

The intensity with which we are focussed on Pakistan, particularly our government and our media, ultimately harms us and...

3 March 2019 12:43 AM IST

A file photo of India captain Virat Kohli and his counterpart Sarfaraz Ahmed posing with the Champions Trophy. (Photo: AFP)

World Cup: Boycotting Pak gets us nothing

India has always beaten Pakistan in the World Cup in the previous six times we have played them.

24 Feb 2019 12:12 AM IST

Masood Azhar is accused of several deadly terrorist attacks in India, including one on the Uri military base in Jammu and Kashmir in 2016, in which 17 security personnel were killed. (Photo: AP)

India must calibrate response to Jaish

The suicide bombing is not preferred by LeT because in its particular belief of Islam, which is called Salafi, suicide...

17 Feb 2019 1:09 AM IST

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf (Photo: AP)

While Pak bans bank interest, India bans cows

Most Indians, including judges, do not take the scientific and economic reading of Article 48.

10 Feb 2019 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election campaign rally in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

We need universal basic income as jobs shrink

The Modi government's scheme is for farmers who have less than 2 hectares (meaning about 5 acres)

3 Feb 2019 12:42 AM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (Photo: AP)

The hypocrisy of Jaitley over ICICI

The finance minister is concerned that this is happening because of the CBI's recklessness and we must commend his...

27 Jan 2019 2:36 AM IST

The SC has agreed to several provisions of the states law on dance bars, including time restrictions and no showering of currency notes on performers, the minister said.

The morality police and dance bars

The dance bar usually has multiple areas and the ones on the higher floors are reserved for clients willing to pay more...

20 Jan 2019 12:02 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi and Amit shah (Photo: File/PTI)

2019: BJP likely to strike an extreme pose

Parties such as the BSP, the SP, the TMC, the BJD etc. also do not have any particular ideology.

13 Jan 2019 6:35 AM IST

With the latest victory, the BJPs tally in the 227-member BMC has risen to 82, while that of the Sena remains at 84. (Photo: PTI)

Defeat of tradition will help BJP in Kerala

The Emergency and then the Ayodhya movement gave the Jana Sangh and BJP the opportunity to mobilise and it grabbed it.

6 Jan 2019 12:31 AM IST

Today Samsung makes the screens that even Apple products use. Traditional and small Korean companies became global giants in this period.

We Indians need to refine our culture

Korea itself is partitioned like India into two countries, which have a dangerous border and the threat of nuclear...

30 Dec 2018 7:15 AM IST

Smriti Irani accused Rahul Gandhi of setting up a not-for-profit company, Young Indians, which then bought a commercial company, Associated Journals Ltd, and its debts worth Rs 90 crore for Rs 50 lakh. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Can we be patriotic the way we want to?

What Smriti Irani and others of her type want us to do for our country begins and ends with crying at the national...

23 Dec 2018 12:10 AM IST