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India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)

The challenge of living next to China

For India to pick up the Chinese slack and matter to the world, it needs to be posting a more frenetic 9-10 per cent...

6 March 2018 6:15 AM IST

US President Donald Trump thanks the audience at the end of joints statements with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Photo: PTI)

Trump's America now a global rule-breaker?

The US trade deficit in 2017 in goods and services was $566 billion, though this balloons to $810 billion if you exclude...

6 March 2018 6:15 AM IST

British-Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh (L), producer Peter Czernin (2L), US actor Sam Rockwell, and British producer Graham Broadbent (R) pose with citation reader US actress Frances McDormand (2R) after receiving the award for Best Film for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. (Photo: AFP)

Love wins at the Oscars

Women may still be only 28 per cent of the Academy's membership and its minority representation is up to around 13 per...

6 March 2018 6:15 AM IST

BSP chief Mayawati addressing the media during the the monsoon session at Parliament in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

BSP-SP deal' in UP: Many wait and watch

In 2014, the BJP won 71 of UP's 80 Lok Sabha seats, riding on the Narendra Modi wave against the incumbent UPA-2...

6 March 2018 6:14 AM IST

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

The N-E verdict: BJP's regionalisation is total

Meghalaya has given a fractured mandate, but there is a clear story there that the verdict has been anti-Congress.

5 March 2018 6:04 AM IST

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

Build-up to Pak polls: Wild, woolly, wacky, maddening

The legal vice Nawaz is in may not reverse itself even if Nawaz wins his war with the boys.

5 March 2018 5:50 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: A silsila of awareness

A man who lives like a robot, howsoever efficient and successful, cannot be called a living person, as life and...

5 March 2018 5:08 AM IST

She then rushed back to Prince Harrys side, as they continued greeting the crowds. (Photo: AP)

Of Fab Four & UK's white Holi

Meghan drew applause when she spoke up about the Me Too and Time's Up campaigns and in support of women's empowerment.

5 March 2018 5:05 AM IST

Union defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the 90th annual general meeting of Ficci in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Welcome news on Tejas

The Indian Navy too badly needs jets and helicopters, and the current scenario requires more speed than the traditional...

5 March 2018 12:32 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Shocking gesture in a bid to appease China

Beijing regularly expresses annoyance when the Dalai Lama is received by any world leader.

5 March 2018 12:13 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Politics and policing

Reportedly, Sherpa was missing for four years and rejoined the UP police in 2012 as superintendent of police.

4 March 2018 1:56 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

Why local power may hold key to Delhi

The Election Commission keeps watch over this to some extent, but that is only in the phase after elections are...

4 March 2018 1:54 AM IST