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Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers sweet to Ram Nath Kovind on being elected as the 14th President of India, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Kovind: India's new President

Only once in 70 years has India been able to agree universally on a President.

21 July 2017 12:06 AM IST

Pope Francis (Photo: AP)

Mystic Mantra: Caring for our common home

There is a new fervour among convents and students that go to convent-run schools in this direction.

20 July 2017 2:20 AM IST

Theyre tickboxers

When scientists are irrational

Despite professing to be scientists many of them are subject to superstitions and beliefs in miracles performed by...

20 July 2017 2:19 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)

Trump's ambitions need Indian finesse

Trump's daughter Ivanka was also made an adviser and given an office in the West Wing of the White House.

20 July 2017 2:16 AM IST

File image of Ram Nath Kovind and Meira Kumar. (Photo: PTI)

Kovind and Meira Kumar: The wood in the axe?

PM Modi's handpicked candidate for President is Ram Nath Kovind, a dalit gentleman who was governor of Bihar until...

20 July 2017 2:07 AM IST

Cow slaughter is also a non-bailable offence now. (Representational Image)

The cow agenda

The Modi govt is not serious about cracking down on cow vigilante lynch mobs.

20 July 2017 12:12 AM IST

Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri (Photo: AP)

Player power peaks

The BCCI may be in a bit of a hole thanks to its intransigence over administrative reforms.

20 July 2017 12:07 AM IST

BSP chief Mayawati addressing the media during the the monsoon session at Parliament in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Mayawati's role can ease new alignments

The BSP supremo's Rajya Sabha term was ending in April next year.

20 July 2017 12:03 AM IST

Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Will the lot of dalits change with a dalit Prez?

Only the caste identity matters the identity that was supposed to have become irrelevant long ago.

19 July 2017 2:18 AM IST

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley (Photo: PTI)

Why 2017 is not 1962

Structurally also, the independent PLA is a potential threat to its own regime of the Communist Party of China.

19 July 2017 2:17 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

The Panama drama

Even if the JIT gives obvious proof against Nawaz, the ECP must be allowed to decide.

19 July 2017 2:17 AM IST

Finding your peace, at times, is a lonely journey. Understand that peace can never be handed over to you on a platter by anyone.

Mystic Mantra: Peace of mind is all that matters

It is the human tendency to interfere in other's matters and offer unasked advices.

19 July 2017 2:17 AM IST