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Englands team members celebrate during the presentation ceremony after winning the the FIFA U-17 World Cup trophy in Kolkata. (Photo: AP)

Under-17 soccer: Well done!

Team England may have become famous for waiting eternally after winning the senior World Cup over 50 years ago.

30 Oct 2017 12:11 AM IST

The committee comprises of top leaders including party president Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI/File)

As Guj polls get near, BJP-Cong friction up

Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani led the assault, disregarding the fact that Mr Patel ceased being a trustee long before the...

30 Oct 2017 12:11 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: AP)

Will China's dream' be a nightmare for India?

From the Indian perspective, the prominence given to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the deliberations is...

30 Oct 2017 12:07 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan. (Photo: AP)

The coup trap in Pakistan

The good thing about the current silliness is that we don't have to be radically hypothetical.

30 Oct 2017 12:00 AM IST

Pranab Mukherjee (Photo: Biplab Banerjee)

India can be argumentative but not intolerant...'

Demonetisation has immobilised a large amount of cash, a part of which was black money on which no tax was being paid,...

29 Oct 2017 1:01 AM IST

Former Intelligence Bureau director Dineshwar Sharma said he would go to Kashmir in eight-to-ten days. (Photo: ANI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Ending VIP culture in Railways

Lohani's biggest decision has been to do away with a 36-year-old protocol that many believe led to the creation of a VIP...

29 Oct 2017 12:48 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday directed the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to issue visa to a Pakistani child for medical treatment in India. (Photo: File | PTI)

Sushma's e-durbar: Today's Adl-e-Jahangir

We have no real coherent foreign policy on Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh or Myanmar.

29 Oct 2017 12:38 AM IST

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said there will be a solution soon on Doklam standoff. (Photo: PTI)

Truth , the first step to restoring J&K's dignity

The conference was an appeal to listening and the vital role that listening as an art and a ritual plays in a...

29 Oct 2017 12:31 AM IST

People wave estelada or pro independence flags outside the Palau Generalitat in Barcelona after Catalonias regional Parliament passed a motion with which they say they are establishing an independent Catalan Republic. (Photo: AP)

Spain's Catalan dilemma

It may well be a test case in long running battles between European regionalism and federalism.

29 Oct 2017 12:30 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech during the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum the China National Convention Center in Beijing Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

Four-nation strategic talks will be useful

The talk of a US-Australia-Japan-India strategic huddling is not new.

29 Oct 2017 12:30 AM IST

Former Intelligence Bureau director Dineshwar Sharma said he would go to Kashmir in eight-to-ten days. (Photo: ANI)

A policeman posing as a postman in Kashmir

Sharma will have sustained interaction and dialogue to understand the legitimate aspirations of a wide cross-section of...

29 Oct 2017 12:30 AM IST

Under the influence of maya, the glue that binds us to the physical, one forgets the path of karma and is driven into the whirlpool of destruction by living for just self.

Mystic Mantra: Laws of creation same for everyone

Lord Vishnu, the energy responsible for running creation, ensures that one is amply warned and reminded of his/her karma...

28 Oct 2017 6:56 AM IST