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The Green Tribunal observed that the ecology of the area surrounding the Taj Mahal cannot be compromised. (Photo: PTI)

Monumental neurosis: Taj is India's heritage

Hindu right-wingers need not be liberal secularists, and they should not be.

18 Oct 2017 1:25 AM IST

Harvey Weinstein.

A sordid saga

It's the reaction to revelations on Weinstein and Bill Cosby that should interest observers more.

18 Oct 2017 1:23 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath (Photo: PTI)

Communalising politics before polls in Gujarat

Communal politics and communal history demonise the other in this case India's Muslims.

18 Oct 2017 1:22 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: The age of meditation and enlightenment

At the age of 11 it is almost impossible even to understand it and Shankara wrote the greatest commentary.

17 Oct 2017 6:37 AM IST

US economist Richard Thaler on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Economics. (Photo: AP)

Disrupting the myth of objectivity

Our media still shies away from expressing bias, while its counterparts in many countries do not.

17 Oct 2017 6:33 AM IST

Nupur and Rajesh Talwar coming out of Dasna jail in Ghaziabad on Monday after their release. (Photo: PTI)

Sloppy CBI-police work gives a licence' to kill?

In our topsy-turvy, anything-is-possible, adversarial, judicial system, the better argued case inevitably wins.

17 Oct 2017 6:27 AM IST

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Virtual war: Rewriting all the rules

Facebook has confirmed that Reddick is an imposter and has removed his and many other accounts.

17 Oct 2017 6:18 AM IST

Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar celebrates with State Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu (with dhol) and other party leaders after winning the Gurdaspur parliamentary bypoll, in Gurdaspur. (Photo: PTI)

Signs of hope for Congress

Last week, the Congress won the municipal corporation polls in Maharashtra's Nanded impressively, giving the BJP a rude...

17 Oct 2017 2:30 AM IST

The countrys serious hunger level is driven by high child malnutrition and underlines need for stronger commitment to the social sector, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) said in its report. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

#100 in hunger index is a real shame for India

The problem of numbers may be self-defeating given the Indian scale, although that argument too is beaten if we compare...

17 Oct 2017 2:24 AM IST

It is a journey from a mundane to a spiritual field of life, though remaining within the householders way of life.

Mystic Mantra: The gift of adversity

Even when life is hardest, there are meanings to be found, riches to be harvested, and gifts to be reaped from the...

16 Oct 2017 5:07 AM IST

Mayor Sadiq Khan called for Londoners to attend a candlelit vigil at Trafalgar Square on Thursday evening in solidarity with the victims and their families. (Photo: AFP)

A dose of Bharatiya Sanskriti in UK

There have been protests by 1.8 million people with Sadiq Khan also remaining firmly opposed to it.

16 Oct 2017 4:54 AM IST

The court also maintained that people will burst only those firecrackers which they have purchased before its order banning the sale. (Photo: Representational/File)

Flip-flops of the superior court

There were many inherent problems in the issue and the solution offered, but most were not envisaged by the court.

16 Oct 2017 4:48 AM IST