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D. Raja, CPI national secretary

By destroying statues, can you claim an ideological victory?'

It is unfortunate that the BJP leadership, including the Prime Minister, claimed that they won an ideological victory...

11 March 2018 1:48 AM IST

President Ram Nath Kovind (Photo: PTI)

No university can survive in a society riven with strife

The 70-year-old University of Kashmir has been a victim of the sordid politics of those New Delhi instals in power in...

11 March 2018 1:40 AM IST

According to agency sources, Sansar Chand, a 1986-batch IRS officer, posted as the commissioner, two superintendents of the department, one personal staff and five private people were nabbed by the CBI in a late-night operation spread across Kanpur and Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

How law enforcement agencies work in India

The CBI is a Central agency, reporting to the Union government, unlike the police, which report to individual states.

11 March 2018 1:38 AM IST

India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)

Why is Delhi so eager to kowtow to Beijing?

Has China done anything in recent times to deserve a more compliant India?

11 March 2018 1:31 AM IST

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu (Photo: PTI)

Of RS polls & unhappy Venkaiah

When Rahul Gandhi took over as Congress president, his mother and predecessor made it amply clear that he was the final...

11 March 2018 1:30 AM IST

A meeting between US president Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un would mark a dramatic breakthrough in efforts to resolve the tense standoff over North Koreas effort to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the US mainland. (Photo: AFP)

Trump's striking gamble

Pyongyang has sought top-level talks for years, with Washington being dismissive.

11 March 2018 1:29 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

A bold step towards a more evolved society

It's in giving sanction to living wills that the judges made passive euthanasia a workable idea.

11 March 2018 1:28 AM IST

While private vehicles are increasing, there has been a sharp decrease in the use of public transport which is resulting in traffic issues in the major cities.

Try new ways to rein in unruly traffic

Abolish all traffic policemen and confine our police force to solving crimes and fighting corruption.

10 March 2018 4:56 AM IST

Yog is an experience, experience of reality, and that experience is your own experience.

Mystic Mantra: The salt doll's experience

The doll jumped inand as she did, there was dissolution, she became the ocean, with its limitless expanse and...

10 March 2018 4:55 AM IST

The Oscars take place this Sunday. (Photo: Pixabay)

Law of low returns hits Ocsars. Reinvent the format

Back to the Oscars, we in India are feeling mighty chuffed about Shashi Kapoor and Sridevi being mentioned in the...

10 March 2018 1:59 AM IST

Union Tourism and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma. (Photo: PTI/File)

Rewriting history: Make Hanuman a human first!

The Ramayan wants us to believe they were humanoids with speech, but with the physical features of apes and other...

10 March 2018 1:52 AM IST

Akhila had married a Muslim man called Shafin, embraced Islam and changed her name to Hadiya. (Photo: File)

SC rejects basis of love jihad'

The court's judgment has the effect of outlawing love jihad as a concept.

10 March 2018 1:46 AM IST