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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addresses a press conference after releasing white paper on completing six months in office, at Lok Bhawan in Lucknow. (Photo: PTI)

A distorted version of faith makes us blind to truth, beauty

The Yogi was the chief priest of the main Hindu temple at Gorakhpur, so one would expect his worldview to be a bit...

8 Oct 2017 1:04 AM IST

Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh: A true Indian

Khushwant Singh (KS), loved to deliberately project an image that would provoke some kinds of people to hate him.

8 Oct 2017 12:58 AM IST

People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo: AFP)

When Muslims do it, it's called terrorism

India's law against terror is called Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) and was legislated by the Vajpayee government in...

8 Oct 2017 12:46 AM IST

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman after taking charge at her office in New Delhi, becoming the first full-time woman Defence Minister of the country. (Photo: PTI)

Of defensive Sitharaman & sidelined neta

Sitharaman has grown in stature after she was elevated to Cabinet rank and moved from the commerce ministry to the...

8 Oct 2017 12:41 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: File)

How transparent collegium?

An unusually high number of vacancies in high courts reflect on how long the decision-making process takes.

8 Oct 2017 12:33 AM IST

GST, which will replace more than a dozen central and state levies like factory-gate, excise duty, service tax and local sales tax or VAT, is Indias biggest tax reform in the 70 years of independence. (Phtoto: Representational/PTI)

GST course correction: Only time will tell

The Gujaratis are an enterprising trading community and they have been hit hard by demonetisation and GST.

8 Oct 2017 12:33 AM IST

Theresa Mays party failed to win a majority in parliament in Britains elections. (Photo: AP)

Leadership battles conquer Brexit

Johnson is supposed to use the Manchester conference to assert his leadership while it appears that May will try to...

7 Oct 2017 4:35 AM IST

Dont eat foods that are high in calories such as deep-fried samosas, papads and puri.

Indian meal in UK: Keep it simple

Several surveys assert that chicken tikka masala has overtaken roast beef in the Brit popularity stakes.

7 Oct 2017 4:32 AM IST

Union minister of railways Piyush Goyal at the India Economic Summit 2017 in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

This is not what I voted for in 2014

Nobody could have seen this coming after that stupendous, sweeping BJP win in the last general elections.

7 Oct 2017 12:18 AM IST

Union minister of railways Piyush Goyal at the India Economic Summit 2017 in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

This is not what I voted for in 2014

Nobody could have seen this coming after that stupendous, sweeping BJP win in the last general elections.

7 Oct 2017 12:18 AM IST

Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (Photo: AP)

Move closer to Japan, but respect the past

Technically, Andaman and Nicobar Islands became the first territory to be liberated from the British by flying the...

7 Oct 2017 12:18 AM IST

The Nobel Prize for Literature for 2017 has been awarded to British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. (Photo: AP)

Kazuo Ishiguro, an apt choice

The Swedish Academy thinks he is a mixture of Jane Austen and Franz Kafka with a bit of Marcel Proust thrown in.

7 Oct 2017 12:17 AM IST