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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before the group photo session at 2017 Brics Summit in Xiamen, Fujian province in China, on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Don't expect China to change its ways soon

New Delhi and Beijing should get serious if they seek to grow a healthy bilateral relationship.

6 Sept 2017 12:32 AM IST

While PM Modis bear hug with President Trump and a clutch of deals at their encounter in June symbolised a budding friendship, trade between the two nations has underperformed and Washington wants to narrow a $31-billion deficit. (Photo: AP)

2nd class' UNSC seat: Is that what we want?

US President Donald Trump, with his many preoccupations, backs a seat for India in a reformed UNSC and in other...

5 Sept 2017 4:57 AM IST

Mother Teresa (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: Pranaam, dear Gurujis!

Many teachers tirelessly teach us much more by their works than by their words.

5 Sept 2017 4:50 AM IST

The communication is in line with the decision announced by President Donald Trump recently, which was one of his key electoral promises. (Photo: AP)

Trump's Twitterification: Truth, facts & beliefs

The Twitterification of Trump's public discourse may have marked a degeneration in electioneering.

5 Sept 2017 12:53 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed 1.25 crore Indians for fourth time. (Photo: PTI)

BJP's allies are left out

Kumar was playing at being equal partners without possessing sufficient firepower.

5 Sept 2017 12:05 AM IST

In this undated image distributed on Sunday by Pyongyang shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an undisclosed location. North Koreas state media said Kim inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new ICBM. (Photo: AP)

World on edge, but talks with Kim vital

The US President's rhetoric has also risen in direct proportion to the scale of Kim's insouciance.

5 Sept 2017 12:04 AM IST

The Bhagavad Gita (15.8) says just as the breeze carries the fragrance from the flower, the jiva is carried from the body.

Mystic Mantra: Living with people

Sometimes people behave nicely, sometimes they don't. This neither elates nor depresses the wise person.

4 Sept 2017 12:40 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on Thursday, June 22, 2017. (Photo: AP)

Amid murmurs about early elections, will Modi learn from May's...

One of the biggest controversies raging in the media these days is over adoption, and particularly about foster care.

4 Sept 2017 12:39 AM IST

The incident happened in the first week of June near the Lalten post in the Doka La general area in Sikkim after a face-off between the two forces, which triggered tension along the Sino-Indian frontier, official sources in New Delhi said. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

After Doklam, it's time for a new beginning

It was not then a bilateral but a quadrilateral issue, imvolving the British, Tibetans, Chinese and Indians.

4 Sept 2017 12:39 AM IST

US President Donald Trump signed into law a new batch of sanctions on Beijing, Tehran, and Moscow. (Photo: AP)

Afghanistan: Trump has changed the big picture

Mr Trumps announcement failed to elicit a highly positive response in the United States and India, where it should have.

4 Sept 2017 12:34 AM IST

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seventh left, President Ramnath Kovind, eighth left and Vice President Venkiah Naidu, nineth left pose with the newly sworn-in ministers after a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India. (Photo: AP)

Will optics be enough to make govt efficient?

The BJP is mostly in a self-congratulatory mood, and Prime Minister Modi leads the way. There is very little of...

4 Sept 2017 12:32 AM IST

The court said that the state cannot disallow a student from changing courses. (Representational image)

Questions about Neet

Having been exempted so long, NEET was thrust upon Tamil Nadu from this academic year by a Supreme Court ruling.

4 Sept 2017 12:27 AM IST