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President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (Photo: AP)

Trump-Kim meet: Hopes rise for a calmer Asia

North Korea is also the obvious and only target of the annual joint military exercises between the US and South Korea.

13 March 2018 12:28 AM IST

Subhas Chandra Bose with wife Emilie.

The legend of Bose finally laid to rest?

Subhas Chandra Bose is dead. Despite books such as this, his legend goes marching on.

11 March 2018 12:21 AM IST

Donald Trump Jr. poses for a photograph ahead of a media event in New Delhi, on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

The Trumps & India: Trade follows the flag

President Trump's foreign relations have not been as strikingly successful as his business deals.

27 Feb 2018 12:22 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas (Photo: @PMO/Twitter)

Modi's Palestine visit: Mideast balancing act

Modi promised Palestinians generous financial and technological assistance.

13 Feb 2018 5:40 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the heads of state/governments of Asean countries at the Republic Day parade at the Rajpath in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

India, Asean: Talk less, act; keep eye on China

Being overwhelmingly Chinese, Singapore is acutely sensitive to China's past glory and future aspirations.

30 Jan 2018 4:01 AM IST

A few thousand followers of 20 social organisations across Maharashtra will gather at Shaniwar Wada, Pune, on January 31, 2018, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of defeat of the Peshwas army by the then British Indian Armys Mahar regiment in the battle of Bhima Koregaon. (Photo: YouTube)

It's safer to let the past remain undisturbed

It all began with the innocent fervour of P.N. Oak, who eulogised the saffron paradise before it was born.

16 Jan 2018 12:32 AM IST

On Wednesday, Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha witnessed pandemonium; opposition members in the Upper House shouted shame, shame when Ananth Kumar Hegde, rose to lay the papers listed against his name. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

In politics, caste still a dominant factor

Smart publicists were rewarded handsomely for giving the BJP a worldly gloss.

2 Jan 2018 12:31 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pointed out that while fighting for rights, one should not forget about duties. (Photo: PTI)

Superpower-to-be that is forever emerging'

The UN's criticism of Kazakhstan's curbs on most freedoms didn't discomfit Mr Modi.

27 Dec 2017 1:45 AM IST

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

BJP stooped to conquer, Congress must not follow it

The Congress was accused of concentrating too much on caste and community but not, it must be stressed, of fanning...

19 Dec 2017 12:58 AM IST

US President Donald Trump and daughter Ivanka Trump (Photo: AFP)

After Ivanka, will papa Donald come calling soon?

Trump recently enjoyed what were reckoned successful tours of China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines.

5 Dec 2017 5:37 AM IST

Rabindranath Tagore

What would India be if the British never came?

Britain steered India's transition from medievalism to modernity.

21 Nov 2017 12:02 AM IST

Michael Fallon (Photo: AFP)

Hullabaloo in UK: Is this the biggest scandal?

The expenses scandal seemed specially shameful to us because prominent Indians and Bangladeshis were involved.

7 Nov 2017 12:18 AM IST