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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah (Photo: File)

Karnataka CM can smile

This includes wealthy industrialist Ashok Kheny, for whom he wangled Bidar South in the face of objections by senior...

17 April 2018 12:11 AM IST

Promising youthful athletes capable of putting their best foot forward in the heat of international competition represent the best sign for Indian sport. (Representational image)

A creditable show on the Gold Coast

The women have done the nation proud once again, while the men have bounced back after a bad Olympics.

17 April 2018 12:09 AM IST

A senior RSS leader jumped into the poll cauldron by sending messages to almost all journalists, asking them how the RSS could play a role in the elections in the larger national interestâ€.

Reporters' Diary: Journalists turn saffron

The BJP, on the other hand, is also said to be keeping a close watch on the elections and is even backing some...

16 April 2018 6:31 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May. (Photo: AP)

Of media slandering, CHOGM summit and the escalating Cold War freeze

While PM Theresa May might personally be more popular than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, some uncomfortable questions...

16 April 2018 6:31 AM IST

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

How a fake crisis turned into a real one in Pak

The barrage of judicial verdicts against Nawaz has destabilised the system.

16 April 2018 6:29 AM IST

Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said, With a belligerent India on our East and an unstable Afghanistan on our West, the region remains captive due to historical baggage and negative competition. (Photo: AP | File)

'Bajwa Doctrine' spells Army raj without coup

As Gen. Qamar Bajwa slowly but surely consolidates his power and legitimises his angst in the popular imagination.

16 April 2018 6:28 AM IST

Ram Kumar (Photo: www.focusartgallery.co.in)

A legend passes

A pivotal journey to Varanasi in the 1960s saw him take to abstract art and he excelled in it, never to return to...

16 April 2018 3:02 AM IST

Several organisations, including the Bar Association and the Hindu Ekta Manch, had staged a sit-in in Kathua town on March 3 demanding a CBI inquiry into the case. (Photo: File/PTI)

An opening in J&K... but can govt take it?

Kashmiris might have felt better if the CM had dismissed the two BJP ministers, but they realise she is hamstrung.

16 April 2018 3:00 AM IST

Ashwani Kumar, Congress leader and former Union minister (Photo: G.N. Jha)

'2019 polls will be a watershed event in the political history of our...

Kumar said it was imperative to have leadership that was anchored in idealism and committed to the idea of India to take...

15 April 2018 6:53 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: A surprise transfer

Rajeev Rautela is a Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officer of the 1982-batch and was promoted to the IAS in 2002.

15 April 2018 6:12 AM IST

An American national who was allegedly drugged and gangraped at a hotel in Delhi in April, has returned to India to record her statement and identify the accused. (Representational image)

Death sentence won't stop rapes

In 2016, the total number of rape cases registered in India was 38,947 and there were over 106,000 crimes against...

15 April 2018 6:11 AM IST

World is more divided than before though its not just because of social media. People were already divided; but all of this is getting exaggerated by social media.

Invasion of privacy is the cost of free Net

Social media applications like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and millions of other websites are only the flora...

15 April 2018 6:11 AM IST