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In the book, he writes the Chinese navy are posturing aggressively against the US navy in the Philippines and the Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea near Vietnam. (Photo: Representational/AFP)

India-China will not go beyond warmongering

Kargil was India's first living room war where controlled electronic feeds lit up emotion in homes nationwide that...

2 Aug 2017 12:42 AM IST

RJD chief Lalu Yadav. (Photo:AP)

Since Afghan Taliban were honest...

The investigations sought to establish that Modi had helped the Adani group in securing undeserved tax refunds.

2 Aug 2017 12:29 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: PTI)

Harmless incursion?

he explanation is that since the Line of Actual Control is not demarcated, transgressions do occur from time to time.

2 Aug 2017 12:22 AM IST

The dropped clause pertains to the insertion of a new article 338B about the constitution and powers of the National Commission for Backward Classes. (Photo: PTI)

Parliamentary lesson for ruling alliance

The Bill has to go back to the lower house where the result would obviously be very different.

2 Aug 2017 12:20 AM IST

Exposure to highly idealized representations of peers lives on social media sites may make a person feel isolated. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Mindfully connected

To be mindful, to live mindfully, means to find this state of natural rest in each moment of the day.

1 Aug 2017 12:01 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves the premises of the JIT with son Hussain Nawaz in Islamabad. (Photo: AP)

Pak melodrama is full of twists

Politicians might govern the country after a fashion, but the Army lives by its own rules and is above reproach.

1 Aug 2017 12:01 AM IST

Ram Nath Kovind gestures before the media after being elected as the 14th President of India, in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

BJP's safe man at Rashtrapati Bhavan

The president is a constitutional head of state in a parliamentary democracy in which the prime minister is the chief...

1 Aug 2017 12:01 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (Photo: PTI)

Workers abroad suffer due to India's apathy

Relatives of the missing workers have knocked at every door since June 2014 when they were last heard of but to no...

1 Aug 2017 12:01 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)

Rhetoric not enough

Casteism is an ancient practice that is accentuated in modern days by the differential treatment in the name of...

1 Aug 2017 12:01 AM IST

BJP national secretary Rahul Sinha also demanded that the elections be countermanded and fresh polls be declared by the State Election Commission. (Representational image)

Defection of MLAs: EC must step in

Apprehensions arise because inducing political defections has taken on a new meaning these days.

1 Aug 2017 12:00 AM IST

NSA Advisor Ajit Doval, attends the seventh meeting of BRICS senior representatives on security issues held at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse near front back to camera in Beijing. (Photo: AP)

What's at stake in Doklam stand-off?

India has a special relationship with Bhutan that is detailed in the Friendship Treaty of 2007.

31 July 2017 5:43 AM IST

Pakistani ousted PM Nawaz Sharif addresses people in Islamabad. (Photo: AP)

Nawaz ouster: Let justice be done

The second time Prime Minister Sharif was ousted, he was handed a life sentence by an anti-terrorism court for hijacking...

31 July 2017 5:31 AM IST