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A liquor shop being shifted following the directive of the Supreme Court banning liquor sale along highways, in Mumbai.

Tame killer highways, liquor ban just optics

Curbing drunken driving requires that drivers, a small fraction of all travellers, be targeted. Most travellers are...

8 April 2017 3:57 AM IST

MoS for Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi speaks in the Rajya Sabha in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Preposterous conduct

In Parliament on Thursday, minister of state for parliamentary affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi flatly denied the whole...

8 April 2017 3:56 AM IST

Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad speaks in the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Wrong signal sent as MP goes scot-free

The Speaker may have voiced concern over how MPs could attend Parliament if banned from flying.

8 April 2017 3:55 AM IST

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, greets his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina upon her arrival in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

Some good deeds for good neighbours

There are some issues that seem to have moved to an unnamed list of items that are currently non-negotiable for India.

8 April 2017 12:54 AM IST

In karma yoga, there is a desire, but not for material comforts and enjoyment. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Yoga The art to find yourself

You are missing out because you identified yourself with something.

7 April 2017 2:26 AM IST

The latest reforms of the CBSE Board with regard to examinations indicate yet another rollback , and not an attempt to modernise the assessment system. (Representational image)

One step forward, two steps back

It is our children who usually pay the price for the vagaries of politics.

7 April 2017 2:26 AM IST

People gather at a symbolic memorial at Technologicheskiy Institute subway station in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, April 6, 2017. A bomb blast tore through a subway train under Russias second-largest city on Monday, killing 14 people and wounding more than 40. (Photo: AP)

As ISIS faces collapse, step up vigil

In January 2011, in a suicide attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport by the Chechens, 37 people were killed.

7 April 2017 2:25 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Chenani-Nashri Tunnel, in Chenani (J&K). (Photo: PTI)

Devise new strategy in J&K, time running out

Jammu and Kashmir needs much more than Vajpayee's poetry and Modi's oratory.

7 April 2017 2:25 AM IST

RBI Governor Urjit Patel at a press conference after the monetary policy review meeting in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

Waiting for the monsoon

Monetary Policy Committee headed by RBI governor Urjit Patel raised the projected growth estimate for 2017-18 to 7.4 per...

7 April 2017 2:24 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Photo: PTI)

HC's meat directive: Will Yogi see sense?

India is the world's largest exporter of buffalo meat and Uttar Pradesh is the hub of this export.

7 April 2017 2:24 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Photo: PTI)

Hindutva hypocrisy?

BJP allowing beef in N-E, while banning it elsewhere, shows its double standards.

6 April 2017 6:30 AM IST

The Quran clearly states that the only rank that eventually matters is marked by the relationship that one has with God.

Mystic Mantra: Journey of the soul

According to Islam, the soul enters the womb of its mother 120 days after conception, which is when the individuation of...

6 April 2017 6:20 AM IST