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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

In UP, Priyanka's entry changes everything

Priyanka Gandhi had been given the task in overall, political control of the fiefdomsâ€.

1 Feb 2019 12:38 AM IST

Former US President Jimmy Carter (Photo: AP)

1979: How Afghanistan & Iran changed forever

The plan was to eliminate the Communist parties, which were gaining in influence around President Mohammad Daud in...

18 Jan 2019 5:08 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

Mideast in ferment: Riyadh-Doha tussle expands

Hamas were supple enough to mobilise support from another formidable axis Iran, Hezbollah and Syria.

4 Jan 2019 12:05 AM IST

It took our state government hours to waive loans of farmers, Opposition will force (PM) Narendra Modi government to waive farm loans, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said. (Photo: ANI)

Can Rahul's Hinduism redefine composite culture?

The Indian National Congress has, with unprecedented honesty, embraced its Hindu credentials.

21 Dec 2018 12:04 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Of cow urine, gaushalas & Cong's future

When a lynch mob in Haryana forced two Muslim boys to swallow a paste of cow dung and urine, they vomited.

7 Dec 2018 12:15 AM IST

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul more than two weeks ago, amid persistent reports he was killed inside. (Photo: AFP)

A new Mideast game: Trump & MBS vs The Rest

It would be rank bad manners to liken the US President to Caligula, but there's a difficulty finding other comparables.

23 Nov 2018 12:05 AM IST

Sabarimala Temple

A Sabarimala tale: When the celibate god rewarded an actress for...

Amit Shah has chastised the Supreme Court for having ruled that young women, whose entry to Sabarimala was banned, be...

9 Nov 2018 12:37 AM IST

Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader

Chance for Corbyn if May trips on Brexit

The Conservative Party is in desperate straits over both Brexit and Corbyn. PM Theresa May is looking at the Exit door...

26 Oct 2018 12:08 AM IST

Still from the movie Manto

When subcontinent's greatest short story writer got just Rs 20 for a...

Thanda Goshtâ€, or Cold Meatâ€, another Manto masterpiece, becomes one of the film's supporting columns.

28 Sept 2018 12:47 AM IST

LGBTQ community members celebrate after the Supreme Court verdict which decriminalises consensual gay sex, in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

Is smutty 'gay love' poetry now kosher?

If men were going to be so unidirectional, women too were beginning to experience things they called freedom.

15 Sept 2018 12:05 AM IST

Muslims in Britain who are causing raised eyebrows by an obstinate insistence on a wardrobe which the host population finds outlandish and worse, must realise that they are at risk of bartering away priceless goodwill. (Photo: Representational Image)

To ban or not: Troubling questions on the burqa

Women on the Haj pilgrimage do not have to cover their faces in front of the Kaaba, the building at the centre of the...

31 Aug 2018 1:23 AM IST

Late DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi.

Battle for Dravida dynasty to strain Centre-TN ties

The MGR-Jayalalithaa charisma had obscured the Dravida movement's earlier anti-Hindi, anti-north and anti-brahmin edge.

17 Aug 2018 2:31 AM IST