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Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

Ayodhya likely to become the issue in 2019

Newspapers and TV channels will get additional income from political advertising, much of it pretending to be news.

18 March 2018 12:17 AM IST

According to agency sources, Sansar Chand, a 1986-batch IRS officer, posted as the commissioner, two superintendents of the department, one personal staff and five private people were nabbed by the CBI in a late-night operation spread across Kanpur and Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

How law enforcement agencies work in India

The CBI is a Central agency, reporting to the Union government, unlike the police, which report to individual states.

11 March 2018 1:38 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

Why local power may hold key to Delhi

The Election Commission keeps watch over this to some extent, but that is only in the phase after elections are...

4 March 2018 1:54 AM IST

(Photo: Nirav Modi website)

Bank frauds: Gujarat model's underbelly

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has still to address the Nirav Modi matter.

25 Feb 2018 12:51 AM IST

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat said, The term Hindu covers all those who are the sons of Bharat Mata (Mother India), descendants of Indian ancestors and who live in accordance with the Indian culture. (Photo: File | PTI)

What will Sangh militia do at the border?

The enemy can compel the less advanced nation to do what it wants, without much violence.

18 Feb 2018 4:56 AM IST

The Army has also submitted photographs of the vehicles damaged in the stone pelting by the unruly mob. (Representational Image)

No justice for Kashmiris in India

The total number of soldiers who have ever faced trial in a civilian court for a crime in Kashmir is zero.

11 Feb 2018 12:11 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing at the Centenary Celebrations of Patna University, in Patna, Bihar. (Photo: PTI)

Let's applaud Modi for the health scheme

The spend on the Army includes a pension payout which is 10 times bigger than Modicare, meaning Rs 100,000 crore.

4 Feb 2018 12:31 AM IST

Donald Trump. (Photo: AP)

Why is dissent confined to litfests?

An example of this is a photograph showing a violent event in one part of the world and representing it as being from...

28 Jan 2018 12:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Insanitation is national crisis, not littering

In the introductory note Mr Modi uses the words clean, cleanliness, litter and littering 21 times.

21 Jan 2018 1:32 AM IST

About 40 per cent of Test matches in India end in draws while only 7 per cent of those played in South Africa are draws. (Representational image)

Let's spin out of Test-ing times

In the 10 places listed as the best venues for bowlers in Tests in the decade 2000-2010, there is not a single Indian...

14 Jan 2018 12:35 AM IST

Former US President Barack Obama at the HT Leadership Summit in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Engaging offline a must for netas, activists

Arguments about politics and religion do not end in name-calling and abuse when they happen face to face.

7 Jan 2018 12:29 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed 1.25 crore Indians for fourth time. (Photo: PTI)

Modi: The popular leader of our times

The middle class is convinced that India is run poorly and needs to be straightened out through radical actions.

31 Dec 2017 1:28 AM IST