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Amit Shah hailed the government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for stand on triple talaq issue before the SC. (Photo: PTI)

Modi faltering on the growth promise

Now we are back to trying to configure how to reindustrialise, given India's persistent economic backwardness.

23 Aug 2017 1:01 AM IST

Vishal Sikka has resigned as CEO and MD of Infosys. (Photo: PTI)

There's blood on Infy's boardroom floor

There are those who will argue that if the founders decided to cut the umbilical cord why have they now jumped into the...

23 Aug 2017 1:01 AM IST

Al-Jazeera (Photo: AFP)

To Chicago via Doha: The joys of the detour

One senses in Al Jazeera's reports a bias for regressive religious ideologues.

23 Aug 2017 12:41 AM IST

A five-judge Supreme Court Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar will on Tuesday pronounce a verdict on pleas challenging the validity of triple talaq (divorce) in the Muslim community. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

For Muslim women, SC verdict is a revolution

There is enough fuzziness in the legal definitions and justifications for triple talaq.

23 Aug 2017 12:32 AM IST

Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. (Photo: PTI/File)

A shocker from Assam

In this scheme of things, people with more than two children will not be eligible for government jobs or any kind of...

23 Aug 2017 12:32 AM IST

Mr Sibal, supplemented by saying this (triple talaq) is something which is not permanent or immutable. (Representational image)

A shot in the arm for gender justice

Triple talaq in one sitting is alien to the Quran, which is the revealed word for Muslims, but is still part of Shariat...

23 Aug 2017 12:31 AM IST

An injured person is carried in Barcelona, Spain, after a white van jumped the sidewalk in the historic Las Ramblas district, crashing into a summer crowd of residents and tourists and injuring several people. (Photo: AP)

Spanish lessons

As ISIS has trademarked self-radicalised do-it-yourself jihad, it places maximum emphasis on drilling Islamist passion...

22 Aug 2017 3:49 AM IST

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Should we keep looking for aliens?

Would we even know it if we did encounter an alien life form?

22 Aug 2017 3:49 AM IST

According to experts one should give equal importance to working out and feeling good for a better life. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Light lamps of love

Rather than being an onlooker cursing God for darkness and disease, why not light a little lamp?

22 Aug 2017 12:53 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. (Photo: AP)

BRI to Brics: Monopoly vs competition

Brics is the forum of five competing powers, apparent bonding thereof, on the lines of the EU or G-7.

22 Aug 2017 12:48 AM IST

A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra, Amitav Roy and AM Kanwilkar told senior counsel Indira Jaising, and other counsel appearing for a batch of students that it would be difficult to disturb the admission process particularly when over six lakh students had passed the NEET, out of 11.74 lakh students who appeared for it. (Photo: File/Representational)

Online JEE: Too soon?

The government has not made public how many of this lot had opted to be tested online at the JEE (Main) hurdle.

22 Aug 2017 12:19 AM IST

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K.. Palaniswami (R) and O Panneerselvam exchange greetings following merger of their factions in Chennai. (Photo: PTI)

After AIADMK merger, some problems remain

The AIADMK's internal contradictions are going to be its greatest enemy.

22 Aug 2017 12:19 AM IST