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Prime MInister Narendra Modi. (Photo: File)

Verdict 2017's lesson: Nurture local leaders

Mr Modi and Amit Shah, the two senior men in the BJP today, are alive to the need to build regional figures and icons.

19 March 2017 2:13 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (Photo: PTI)

A blow to Mamata

The ease with which politicians run rings around the system even while being investigated suggests a much deeper...

19 March 2017 2:09 AM IST

President Pranab Mukherjee (Photo: PTI)

Rashtrapati has set very high standards

Politics at the top is a high-stakes game that needs boldness and nerves of steel.

19 March 2017 2:08 AM IST

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

360 degree: It's time the AICC revitalises itself

Congress needs to fashion itself as a unit that reflects and respects talent and capability.

19 March 2017 1:43 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a road show in Varanasi during the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election campaign. (Photo: PTI)

360 degree: Numbers look good for Modi

BJP's Uttar Pradesh win is thought to have made Narendra Modi's return to power in 2019 inevitable.

19 March 2017 1:22 AM IST

A person reading the Holy Quran

Mystic Mantra: The fragrance of enlightenment

In Islam, the primary source of spiritualism (ihsan or tasawwuf) is the Quran.

18 March 2017 2:10 AM IST

Robin Rhodes approached Rabeeya Khan, who wears a hijab, at the Sky Club in Terminal 2 while she was sitting in the utility office, authorities said. (Photo: Representational Image/AFP)

Battles over hijab, niqab, beards

The judgment could apply to dangling crucifixes, yamulkas, hijabs and of course niqabs the full face covering.

18 March 2017 2:08 AM IST

BJP workers carry a giant cut-out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they celebrate the partys victory in the UP and Uttarakhand Assembly elections, at the party headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Up shows caste, group voting abating

Voters have cast their vote to a reasonable extent, and not voted their caste' as it used to happen in UP.

18 March 2017 2:05 AM IST

Osama bin Laden

Pak needs to come clean on Osama raid

Haqqani who did meet with the commission has always publicly criticised the attack.

18 March 2017 2:03 AM IST

The government has proposed a penal tax rate of 50 per cent to incentivise black money hoarders to switch to formal economy.

World needs shift to a fairer deal for the 99 per cent

Today, just eight people in the world own as much wealth as half the human population does.

18 March 2017 2:01 AM IST

Gilgit-Baltistan region. (Photo: AFP/File)

Gilgit move unacceptable

The scheme to detach Gilgit-Baltistan from the political geography of J&K is not new.

18 March 2017 1:56 AM IST

Yamkeshwar has around 84,000 voters, and about 70 per cent of them reside in villages.

Despite hue and cry, EVMs still best way

Still, the EC should run tests to establish that the Indian system is by far the world's best.

18 March 2017 1:54 AM IST