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Benazir Bhutto (Photo: AP)

Parties need to keep patricians in good humour

The trigger for this cursory detour through history is the steady stream of political entrants to the Pakistan...

24 April 2018 12:33 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Theresa May welcomes Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 10, Downing Street in London on Wednesday. (Photo: AP)

It ain't good to plead UK for jobs, Mr PM

Ms May's government speaks in so many voices that everyone is confused. Perhaps this is intentional.

24 April 2018 12:32 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

PM's diktat is justified

The realisation that all this is their creation should be a good beginning for the reappearance of commonsense.

24 April 2018 12:32 AM IST

CPI(M) general-secretary Sitaram Yechury also criticised the Narendra Modi-led government for delaying the winter session of the parliament and said these were the signs that it was not willing to face the House. (Photo: PTI)

Yechury re-elected, CPM gains focus

Mr Karat has hewed to the traditional anti-Congress line of the communists formulated to defeat Jawaharlal Nehru's...

24 April 2018 12:32 AM IST

The Yogi Adityanath government is having a strange impact on BJPs Muslim leaders and almost all of them are turning into Hanuman bhakts .

Reporters' Diary: The new Hanuman bhakts

However, their Hanuman leanings have not gone down too well with a section of the party leadership.

23 April 2018 2:41 AM IST

Asias century: Defining moments in history!

Asia's century: Defining moments in history!

Military historians see this as one of the greatest battles of the 20th century and a defining moment in the history of...

23 April 2018 12:39 AM IST

Public protests have been held in every major city condemning the gruesome and inhuman violence inflicted upon the young girl. (Representational image)

Death penalty for child abuse more harmful

The Kathua rape is not the norm; most cases of child abuse take place within our homes and in our neighbourhoods.

23 April 2018 12:26 AM IST

This is about keeping Pakistan: first, safe; second, strong; third, prosperous; and maybe eventually all three at the same time.

Pakistan's sweeping agenda

Always fighting to be safe, never stable enough to become strong that's goals one and two evaporating right there.

23 April 2018 12:21 AM IST

CPI(M) general-secretary Sitaram Yechury also criticised the Narendra Modi-led government for delaying the winter session of the parliament and said these were the signs that it was not willing to face the House. (Photo: PTI)

CPM's dilemma: How it should remake itself

In claiming that it is the only party that can offer an alternative policy agenda, the CPI(M) has to fully and finally...

23 April 2018 12:12 AM IST

Sinha's departure exposes BJP

The party, which Mr Sinha left on Saturday after the association of a quarter century, is not the party he had joined.

23 April 2018 12:11 AM IST

Unless the states act to bring investigation and trial to a close within four months of a rape incident as is envisaged now, the toughest laws on the statute books are unlikely to be deterrent enough to stop these barbaric crimes. (Representational image)

Will death penalty deter child rapists?

The planned national registry of sex offenders is a good initiative though as it could help in outing the names of...

23 April 2018 12:11 AM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti during a meeting in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

There seems to be no end to Kashmiri's suffering

This year marks 30 years of militancy in Kashmir. No end is in sight to the people's sufferings but they will never...

22 April 2018 6:02 AM IST