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Palestinian protesters carry an injured man who was shot by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strips border with Israel, Monday, May 14, 2018. (Photo: AP)

Is the Cold War starting all over again?

To a watching world it was a graphic demonstration of iron-fisted crowd control by the Israeli security forces, circa...

30 May 2018 1:23 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

After swings and hugs, some realism returns

Relations with Pakistan represent a major policy failure.

30 May 2018 1:21 AM IST

Section 144 which was imposed last week was lifted off on Sunday and the Sterlites copper smelter plant in Thoothukudi was permanently shut down on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Sterlite: SC will take call

The land allotted for doubling the plant's capacity, which would have made Sterlite India's top copper producer, was...

30 May 2018 1:19 AM IST

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj with minister of state V.K. Singh in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

India's foreign policy: So much left unsaid

The external affairs minister holds an annual press conference, but these are, in reality, events without updates.

30 May 2018 1:17 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Everything or nothing

The Bible has some characters who give up everything worldly in order to attain something spiritual or something of...

29 May 2018 6:53 AM IST

Archbishop of Delhi Anil Couto (Photo: Youtube screengrab)

Church and State: There's a long history

Archbishop of Delhi could be defended or rejected, depending on which angle you are looking at.

29 May 2018 6:51 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina share a laugh after a signing of agreements in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

Modi, Hasina & Didi: Teesta on their mind

It is significant that Sheikh Hasina made the time to meet Mamata Banerjee separately and alone.

29 May 2018 2:55 AM IST

Ivanka Trump. (Photo: AP)

Evangelicals are hardcore Trump supporters

Many Jewish fundamentalists share the evangelicals' beliefs up to a point.

29 May 2018 12:49 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru (Photo PTI)

Of Nehru & Savarkar

Modi attempted to club Nehru with the progenitor of Hindutva, saying this time of year was also associated with Savarkar...

29 May 2018 12:37 AM IST

Shane Watson (Photo: BCCI)

IPL-11 lesson: Fitness counts most, not age

A successful IPL season capped the efforts of Indian cricket to clean up its stables.

29 May 2018 12:30 AM IST

Yoga is the journey from A to B. A, is where you are, B is the finality. Guru, is someone, who has already walked that path and has the experience of finality. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Tathata The way of tathagata

According to Buddha, the key to going beyond sorrow is to know the truth about yourself to understand who or what you...

28 May 2018 5:03 AM IST

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave after their wedding ceremony at St. Georges Chapel in Windsor Castle in Windsor, near London. (Photo: AP)

On lingering frenzy over royals, and an Anglophile Khushwant

Khushwant Singh's affection for the undivided India in which he was born, was well known.

28 May 2018 5:02 AM IST