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The Supreme Courts order banning firecrackers has received mixed reactions from various quarters.

Costly flip-flops over ban on firecrackers

The CPCB has yet to submit the report due on January 11, 2017, on the air pollution impact.

12 Oct 2017 12:12 AM IST

People wave pictures at an event paying tribute to Cuban Revolution hero Ernesto Che Guevara marking the 50th anniversary of his death in Santa Clara, Cuba. (Photo: AP)

Salute Che! 50 years on, the legend still endures

The official commemorations in recent days in the Cuban city of Santa Clara and Vallegrande in Bolivia come as no...

12 Oct 2017 12:11 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Photo: PTI)

Statue power in UP

Lord Ram lives in the heart of his devotees and has done so for millennia.

12 Oct 2017 12:11 AM IST

Euthanasia law needs foolproof safeguards

The government may be right in its judgment in trusting the legislature to come up with a comprehensive, compassionate...

12 Oct 2017 12:09 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: We all are different

Osho points out that the educator, from kindergarten to university, is in the service of the vested interests, is in the...

11 Oct 2017 1:12 AM IST

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Photo: AP)

Amid Mideast turmoil, Saudis look to Moscow

The King's visit has also taken bilateral ties into the new area of defence cooperation.

11 Oct 2017 1:11 AM IST

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury (Photo: PTI)

Why is Left dithering over doing battle with the Right?

It is true that Hindutva has thrived and prospered by vending spurious historiography and a questionable sense of...

11 Oct 2017 1:05 AM IST

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Khadi faces dark days: Handloom's GST blow

Handloom is not merely an economic activity. It's an art that its practitioners dedicate their lives to learn.

11 Oct 2017 1:04 AM IST

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government will take cognisance of UGCs suggestion to remove words such as Hindu and Muslim from BHU and AMU. (Photo: PTI | File)

A needless controversy

The British helped found Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875, which evolved into AMU.

11 Oct 2017 1:01 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: PTI)

Cracker ban welcome, but questions do arise

On Monday, a three-judge bench reinstated the Delhi-NCR ban on the sale of firecrackers that was imposed in November...

11 Oct 2017 1:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the inauguration of the Golden Jubilee Year Celebrations of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Modi needs to govern quietly, stop bragging

Whether it is convincing or not, it showed that Modi was seriously engaging with his critics.

10 Oct 2017 2:25 AM IST

No saviour' is coming to rescue Pak from itself

Movements require a mobilising vision, commitment, organisation, struggle, feedback, and participatory decision-making.

10 Oct 2017 2:16 AM IST