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Chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses the TMC Chhatra Parisad foundation day rally at Mayo Road in Kolkata on Tuesday. (Photo:Asian Age)

Centre-state war may destroy the executive

The SC's directive was hailed as a victory by both the opposing sides the BJP and Ms Banerjee.

10 Feb 2019 12:00 AM IST

The election commission conducts FLC of new machines followed by rehearsals of EVMs and voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPATs) before the polling day in front of representatives from registered parties.

Claims of mass rigging of EVMs are laughable

It is utter nonsense to postulate that EVM machines are capable of mass hacking.

27 Jan 2019 2:30 AM IST

Alok Verma has challenged the government order on the grounds that a 1998 verdict by the Supreme Court stipulated that the CBI Director should have a fixed minimum tenure of two years. (Photo: PTI)

The CBI director's removal was unfair

The CVC finding is that it could not look into these allegations for want of time, and that further inquiry is needed.

13 Jan 2019 2:05 AM IST

55,012 farmers of Konkan division took the insurance cover

A wishlist for 2019: To brighten India's future

Let us hope that the parliamentary elections in 2019 throw up a result that is good for the country.

30 Dec 2018 12:10 AM IST

Congress Party workers celebrate the party victory in the states Assembly elections, at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

BJP gets wake-up call, Cong needs an agenda

In Madhya Pradesh the fight went down to the wire, a see-saw battle where sometimes the BJP was ahead and sometimes the...

16 Dec 2018 12:10 AM IST

The art of civilised dialogue is dead

When our political leaders are culpable in taking discourse to its lowest common denominator, TV channels do the same.

2 Dec 2018 12:23 AM IST

Priests perform Shila Pujan of stones for construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya. (Photo: PTI/File)

Dialogue could resolve Ram temple issue

For Hindus, the site where Lord Ram was born irrespective of whether this can be historically proved or not has very...

18 Nov 2018 12:05 AM IST

Sardar Patels Statue of Unity in Gujarats Narmada district is twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in the US. Iron was collected from all over the country to build the statue. (Photo: @PMOIndia twitter via PTI)

A befitting tribute to Patel was long overdue

The BJP, which is joined at the hip to the RSS, has internalised a convenient amnesia about what Sardar Patel actually...

4 Nov 2018 12:05 AM IST

The police booked Ashish Pandey, son of ex-BSP MLA Rakesh Pandey, for allegedly brandishing a gun at guests and threatening them in foyer of The Hyatt Regency hotel in R K Puram. (Photo: Screengrab)

Lawmakers and their law-breaking progeny

The powerful need to have their egos massaged, and the supplicants must outdo each other in the most abject display of...

21 Oct 2018 12:24 AM IST

Rafale aircraft

Rafale deal not yet BJP's Bofors

The perception that there has been a huge defense scandal has hardly percolated down to the common people.

7 Oct 2018 1:34 AM IST

Imran Khan declared his victory on Thursday and dismissed the allegations of fraud calling it the most transparent election in Pakistans history. (Photo: AP)

We need a more robust Pak foreign policy

Diplomacy to be effective must be embedded in a strategic matrix. The question is not whether we should talk to Pakistan...

23 Sept 2018 2:32 AM IST

The decision to dissolve Telangana Assembly came after KCR held a meeting with his Cabinet on Thursday. (Photo: File | ANI)

India needs dignity in its political repartee

KCR is entitled to his point of view, but I have a foundational problem with the manner in which he expressed it.

9 Sept 2018 7:00 AM IST