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Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

Stop this muscle-flexing

We've reason to fear that the year we have just stepped into will develop into a fiercely contentious one.

4 March 2018 1:48 AM IST

BJP president Amit Shah gets rousing welcomed by party workers outside the party headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo: Biplab Banerjee)

BJP's triumph in N-E exposes Cong failure

In Meghalaya, it appeared likely that the Congress may not return to government if the regional parties can join hands...

4 March 2018 1:48 AM IST

By humbling before God five times each day, supplicating to God in private moments, and remembering God through the repeated phrases of dhikr, they seek to mould their minds and thoughts into a way pleasing to God.

Mystic Mantra: The way to mindfulness

Dhikr is a powerful means of building self-control and striking a balance between the spiritual and the mundane.

3 March 2018 2:05 AM IST

How to teach science: Not just granny's tales

Singh's invitation to the celebration of a national science day is the ironic reversal of the Galileo indictment.

3 March 2018 1:59 AM IST

Actors Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan during a meeting in Chennai. (Photo: Asian Age)

Can Kamal, Rajini fill the void left by Jaya?

If any of the two new parties is to form the government in Tamil Nadu, it has to score at least 20 per cent votes in the...

3 March 2018 1:39 AM IST

India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)

Our beliefs on a nuclear war might have to be revised

Ironically, attention drawn to a US-North Korea crisis or other potential flashpoints makes the nuclear establishment in...

3 March 2018 1:35 AM IST

Social activist Aanna Hazare. (Photo: PTI/File)

Lokpal on backburner

There are at least 11 states now without a Lokayukta.

3 March 2018 1:26 AM IST

40% anticipate GDP growth to range between 6.5-7% in FY18 which is in line with various international organisations.

India's GDP gets back fastest growing tag

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had indicated equal opportunity for all and his mantra of ache din aane waale hain...

3 March 2018 1:21 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Meditation for politicians

Meditation has to become the foundation, the essence of human life, particularly in today's chaotic, terrorized, cunning...

2 March 2018 4:38 AM IST

(Photo: Nirav Modi website)

Corruption across the globe, as crime and literature

Governments at the Centre and in Maharashtra, big names in industry, all got embroiled in a project riven with scandals.

2 March 2018 4:35 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Modi playing with fire, driving J&K to despair

Pakistan has tended to concentrate its fire downwards of Poonch on the LoC where it has an advantage over India and...

2 March 2018 4:27 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

Sharifs' power play: Shahbaz chief, but Nawaz still supreme

The most serious concern for senior party leaders at the moment is how to stop the party from fragmentation.

2 March 2018 4:17 AM IST