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Union Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj during an interaction with women and girl students at a Women Townhall in Ahmedabad. (Photo: PTI)

Of pally netas & the charming Ms Swaraj

Modi has publicly praised Swaraj for giving a human face to her ministry and for her strong speech at the UN General...

31 Dec 2017 12:53 AM IST

Fire fighters rush to douse the flames that engulfed three rooftop pubs inside the Kamala Mills Compound at Lower Parel early on Friday.

Callous attitude towards safety

Safety in crowded urban spaces is not something to be practiced so much as talked about in media debates.

31 Dec 2017 12:49 AM IST

Fiscal deficit for the financial year 2016-17 is budgeted at 3.5 per cent.

High fiscal deficit not good news

India, according to the International Monetary Fund has a fiscal deficit that is among the highest in the G-20...

31 Dec 2017 12:42 AM IST

God always wants us to triumph over our karmic hurdles because only then will we fulfill the purpose of life, which is to grow into better human beings.

Mystic Mantra: A mindful New Year

The Mahatma encouraged inmates to follow frugality as a life-choice, not out of a sense of deprivation, but because it...

30 Dec 2017 12:50 AM IST

President Donald Trump will dispatch his top diplomatic and military advisors to Pakistan in the coming weeks. (Photo: AFP | File)

A year of self-deceptions?

Chinese investment in Britain may create jobs but will come with demands for huge returns to China.

30 Dec 2017 12:27 AM IST

Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma tied the knot in Italy on Monday. (Photo: Twitter / Anushka Sharma)

Enough of looking back... it's time to look ahead

2018 is likely to be a rough and tough year politically, not just for India but the rest of the world.

30 Dec 2017 12:18 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Short-term-vision netas India's growing danger

The threat to the BJP in the beginning of the year and the challenge it faced in the last weeks of the year were...

30 Dec 2017 12:15 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)

Understanding harassment, in workplaces and in homes

According to UN Women, 120 million girls around the world have experienced forced sexual acts.

30 Dec 2017 12:14 AM IST

Eighteen opposition parties have come together to take on the government in parliament during the Monsoon Session beginning July 17 over demonetisation, GST and various other issues, according to political sources. (Photo: PTI)

This loose talk must stop

It's becoming harder to forgive politicians for this inexplicable tendency to put their foot in their mouth.

30 Dec 2017 12:13 AM IST

Under the proposed law, instant triple talaq in any form will be illegal and void, be it through a pronouncement by the husband, or in writing, by email, SMS or on WhatsApp.

Talaq ban bill can be made more effective

Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, while moving the bill, said 300 cases were reported in the present year.

30 Dec 2017 12:13 AM IST

Malik ibn Deenar devoted his life to God and made a living as a calligrapher of the Quran.

Mystic Mantra: Tawhid The heart of Islam

Tawhid further refers to the nature of that God that he is a unity, not composed, not made up of parts, but simple and...

29 Dec 2017 1:37 AM IST

Social media connects us to the big wide world outside but ironically disconnects us from the real one. This yawning chasm between the offline and online only further isolates us, defeating the very purpose of going online at all.

Tech gamechanger in politics, governance

Hardik Patel had shown that even a skeletal organisational network leveraging technology could almost overnight become a...

29 Dec 2017 1:31 AM IST