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US President Donald Trump. (Photo: AP)

Protectionism looms, India must innovate

Immigration was one of Trump's key campaign planks and his administration has focused on this issue in a major way.

22 April 2017 12:22 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

Reprieve for Nawaz: Was a deal struck?

If Pervez Musharraf couldn't stand up to his own generals, what chance does Nawaz Sharif have?

22 April 2017 12:21 AM IST

Red beacon lights removed-VIP vehicles parked outside civil secretariat in Jammu. (Photo: AP)

Adieu lal batti, but VIP raj' won't end so easily

Red beacons are just one of the many manifestations of the VIP culture rampant in India.

22 April 2017 12:21 AM IST

Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, wanted by Indian security agencies in multi-million loan default case, has been arrested in London by Scotland Yard on Tuesday. (Photo: AP)

Will the noose around Mallya now tighten?

Theresa May points to them in her argument for a general election, saying that they are disrupters.

22 April 2017 12:20 AM IST

Devotee praying

Mystic Mantra: Guru Tegh Bahadur Hind di Chadar'

Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru, was born at Amritsar in 1621 in the month of April.

21 April 2017 2:04 AM IST

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley speaks to the media after returning from his trip to UK in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Growth crawls, DeMo blues linger

The political strike rate of the Modi government is at a brisker rate than that of the economy.

21 April 2017 2:02 AM IST

CRPF personnel standing guard at a polling station during repoll in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency in Budgam district of Kashmir. (Photo: PTI)

Polls in conflict zones: A Kashmiri lesson

Democracy is presumed to be a great leveller and empowers the very people who fight each other or the state.

21 April 2017 2:01 AM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi wave at people during his visit to Lord Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar. (Photo: AP)

A good move by PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken this step for the whole country not a day too soon, and deserves to be...

21 April 2017 2:00 AM IST

A good monsoon means more money in the hands of rural India and a leg up for the production of consumer goods. (Photo: PTI)

Hopes are high for a normal monsoon

A few NGOs tried to educate people about rainwater harvesting a few years ago, but it ended there.

21 April 2017 2:00 AM IST

File photo of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya (Photo: PTI/)

Ayodhya issue is back as 2019 polls beckon

Let there be no doubt, the Supreme Court order revives interest in the flagging issue.

21 April 2017 1:59 AM IST

Your past is a part of you do not ignore it. Accept it, learn from it, create the gift of life through it and let it go.

Mystic Mantra: The spiritual journey

The more you indulge in it, the more insecure you become of losing it, and more tightly to hold on to it.

20 April 2017 1:10 AM IST

Satyagraha for a hunger-free India

Within one and a half centuries, the East India Company had started to rule India through violence.

20 April 2017 1:01 AM IST