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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping exchange greetings at the BRICS leaders informal gathering, in Hamburg. (Photo: AP)

Hamburg handshake shows the way ahead

Xi praised India's role in the fight against terrorism and made laudatory references to India's economic progress.

8 July 2017 5:30 AM IST

In the run up to International Yoga Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suggested setting up of yoga parks where people can find inner peace in the lap of nature. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: From stagnation to stillness

Physically, stillness and stagnation could be seen as about the same, but qualitatively they are worlds apart.

7 July 2017 6:43 AM IST

China had mentioned that Donglang is being considered in their territory since ancient times . (Photo: Chinas Foreign Ministry)

Bhutan as target: Fear is the key

Bhutan and India have always respected, honoured and treated each other well in the best of South Asian traditions.

7 July 2017 6:39 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's fallout: Chaos & new licence raj likely?

The compliance burden and GST's complex structure it has four main rates from five to 28 per cent have sparked fears...

7 July 2017 6:24 AM IST

US President Donald Trump thanks the audience at the end of joints statements with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Photo: PTI)

Don's policies making US a sadder, more dismal place

The sadness of America, the hopelessness of America, will in this way spread its wings and tentacles.

7 July 2017 12:52 AM IST

Britains Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn (Photo: AP)

People vs Establishments: Crisis for the West

The electorate trounced Prime Minister Theresa May and pushed Labour's Jeremy Corbyn way up on the charts.

7 July 2017 12:46 AM IST

Calcutta High Court Justice C.S. Karnan (Photo: PTI)

Keeping watch over judges

The question of selection procedure was settled in favour of the Supreme Court in the collegium versus NJAC case.

7 July 2017 12:25 AM IST

Using the opportunity to target West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over her remarks against state Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi, Vijayvargiya said she is making such comments out of frustration. (Photo: PTI)

Those in high office must act with dignity

West Bengal's Trinamul government has taken a fairly tough line on the communal issue.

7 July 2017 12:22 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu prior to a meeting in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo: AP)

Mission Israel: India's new strategy evolving

Modi is not necessarily shunning a relationship with Palestine but rather giving it a status separated from Israel.

6 July 2017 5:51 AM IST

Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq (Photo: AFP)

How the 1977 Zia takeover sealed fate of Pakistan

Many of us back then saw Zia's unrepresentative incumbency as a temporary phenomenon that would wear off once he...

6 July 2017 5:50 AM IST

Whatever is happening in your life has a purpose, even if it is a painful experience. Believe that great things will unfold through that.

Mystic Mantra: Longing for God

Mahatma Gandhi's experiments with truth was another path in a similar search for God whom he defined as Truth.

6 July 2017 5:46 AM IST

Another option is that the Centre allows Air India to remain a national carrier by controlling at least 51 per cent stake.

Time for Air India's makeover?

India no longer needs a state-owned national airline.

6 July 2017 5:40 AM IST