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Annually, Rs 2,500 crore of fuel is bought at petrol pumps and now a part of it being talked of being home delivered.

Pay more for fuel as economy in a mess

The reason isn't far to seek. India's tax component in a litre of fuel is one of the world's highest.

15 Sept 2017 1:51 AM IST

Aung San Suu Kyi

Rohingya: Myanmar's unpeople'

Suu Kyi is certainly not the only leader who can be accused of hypocrisy.

14 Sept 2017 2:09 AM IST

Residents of Delhi-NCR take part in a candlelight march on Sunday to seek justice for the boy who was killed in Ryan International School in Gurgaon. (Photo: G.N. Jha)

Why CBI? Upgrade, reform police forces

The CBI, during its nearly seven decades of existence, has in its functioning slipped, and slipped badly too, several...

14 Sept 2017 2:09 AM IST

Supreme Court of India. (Photo: PTI)

Making divorces easier

The court made just an enabling provision by which the said period can be waived off, not a blanket order scrapping it...

14 Sept 2017 2:08 AM IST

We want a new India where a poor can take his/her child for treatment and return back happily, Rahul Gandhi said. (Photo: PTI/File)

Rahul's candid talk: Why BJP sees red

The first doesn't wash since the present Prime Minister, times without number, has hit out at his political rivals when...

14 Sept 2017 2:08 AM IST

Sufism (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Let's be humble, we come from him

The Sufis teach that if you are aware of your humility, then you are among the arrogant ones.

14 Sept 2017 2:08 AM IST

Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks to journalists after a Memorandum of Understanding ceremony at the President House in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Wednesday, Sept 6, 2017. (Photo: AP)

How India normalises' violence

Narendra Modi is symptomatic of it, but he is a mere case study than an analytical tool.

14 Sept 2017 2:07 AM IST

Congress Vice President, Rahul Gandhi delivering a speech at Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley, California. (Photo: PTI)

Home truths on foreign soil?

Rahul Gandhi criticising the Modi government in the US is not an insult to India.

14 Sept 2017 2:07 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Mother Teresa lives on in our hearts

Jesus became everything for her. She burnt with a desire to sacrifice everything for him.

13 Sept 2017 2:00 AM IST

RSS volunteers at Hindu Samagam, in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. (Photo: PTI/File)

RSS had no role in Hyderabad's liberation

The BJP's only power base is in the old city of Hyderabad, which is the political domain of the MIM, its mortal enemy.

13 Sept 2017 1:59 AM IST

Editor, social activist and a virulent critic of right-wing groups, Gauri Lankesh, was shot dead Tuesday night outside her residence in Bengaluru. (Photo: Facebook)

Of Lankesh, Ambedkar and Hinduism

Lankesh saw Hinduism not as a religion open to change but as a hidebound hierarchy ranged against women and the lower...

13 Sept 2017 1:58 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during a function on the occasion of 125th anniversary of Vivekanandas Chicago Address and birth centenary of Deendayal Upadhyay in New Delhi . (Photo: PTI)

Modi and Vivekananda: Can govt bridge gap?

The glaring difference between preaching and practice makes the PM's speech mere rhetoric without intent.

13 Sept 2017 1:57 AM IST