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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to attend BJP Parliamentary party meeting at Parliament, in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

MEA, stick to the brief

In attacking the NYT editorial, the government may have exposed itself to the charge of being too touchy about...

27 March 2017 2:28 AM IST

Supreme Court of India. (Photo: Representational Image)

End discrimination in words and deeds

The term dhobi pertains to launderers constituting a profession rather than any caste in the old system.

27 March 2017 2:21 AM IST

Judges should never be bloodthirsty a real concern for the dignity of human life postulates resistance to taking a life through laws instrumentality. (Representational image)

360 degree: Emotions and word of law

Wobbly and inconsistent standards could dilute or confuse India's legal process.

26 March 2017 5:58 AM IST

Supreme Court of India

360 degree: Why capital punishment must stay

When delivered scrupulously, the death penalty can uphold our moral conscience.

26 March 2017 5:53 AM IST

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360 degree: Process to speed up execution is need of the hour

The death penalty is required to be retained in our book with certain amendments.

26 March 2017 3:46 AM IST

Normally capital punishment is reserved for murder, terrorism, war crimes, reason, espionage etc.

360 degree: The legitimacy of Capital punishment

Law Commission felt time has come for India to move towards abolition of the death penalty.

26 March 2017 3:38 AM IST

Kilvenmani massacre, TN (1968): 44 dalits were killed by goons sent by landlords, for protesting and seeking better wages.

Discourse: Discrimination eva jayate

We talk of equality but the bitter truth is that even today, we Indians' discriminate and stereotype fellow Indians.

26 March 2017 3:29 AM IST

The British seized one of the richest countries in the world and, over 200 years of colonial rule, reduced it to one of the poorest, most diseased and most illiterate countries on earth.

Discourse: Forgive but do not forget

Shashi Tharoor is seeking precisely this when he demands that Britain apologise and compensate India for its outrageous...

26 March 2017 3:26 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath,

Dilli Ka Babu: Transfer politics goes hi-tech

Mr Shinde, many hope that the CM will accept the demand and rescind the IRS officer's transfer order.

26 March 2017 3:23 AM IST

Indian Parliament

Expunging parliamentary records: An abuse of power

The Speaker of the House has none of the powers that successive speakers of the Lok Sabha have wielded for decades.

26 March 2017 3:16 AM IST

Congress in 2017 must find its raison d'tre

Few Indians have an incentive to mobilise for the Congress.

26 March 2017 3:09 AM IST

Siddhartha Nath Singh

Sunday Interview: We are committed to good governance and our sankalp...

Adityanath Yogi is known to be a hard taskmaster and this will help in governance.

26 March 2017 3:06 AM IST