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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who began a two-day visit to Sri Lanka on Thursday, with Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe as they carry trays with flowers at Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo. (Photo: PTI)

Modi needs a strategy for post-Trump world

Sri Lanka leaked the news on the eve of Modi's visit that it was denying permission to a Chinese submarine to dock in...

13 May 2017 12:10 AM IST

There are also those who become loving mothers, like Saint Teresa, to some unfortunate one of us, who, for one or the other reason missed out on the love of our biological mothers and fathers. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: Sweetest day of the year

For, except God's love, which is sometimes difficult to experience tangibly, what could be sweeter than mother's love?

12 May 2017 12:19 AM IST

Kashmiri protesters throw bricks at Indian police during a protest in Srinagar. (Photo: PTI)

Threat in J&K is beyond street turbulence

The LoC can take as much additional deployment as probably exists today, and yet the Army won't give you any guarantee...

12 May 2017 12:18 AM IST

French President-elect Emmanuel Macron (Photo: AP)

Will audacity' guide Macron's France?

The Prime Minister must be acceptable both to this President and to the legislature; it is not an easy endeavour.

12 May 2017 12:18 AM IST

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Why India now needs a new kind of Opposition

The BJP's dominance goes far beyond electoral politics.

12 May 2017 12:15 AM IST

Candidates being checked before appearing for the NEET exam on Sunday. (Photo: AP)

No way to hold an exam!

Imagine the plight of youngsters being treated like criminals on the eve of a vital exam!

12 May 2017 12:14 AM IST

File photo of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav who has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage. (Photo: PTI)

Will moving ICJ on Jadhav really work?

India has gone to the ICJ against Pakistan for the first time since 1971.

12 May 2017 12:14 AM IST

Sufism (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Khwaja Kalim & his inclusivism

Khwaja Kalim Allah sought to weave the Indian generation of his time into a beautiful thread of spiritual synergy.

11 May 2017 3:51 AM IST

CBI team laid a trap and a case was registered under section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 against the officer. (Representational Image)

Corruption: What are we to do?

A just and relatively honest society requires a system that inflicts swift and commensurate retribution on...

11 May 2017 3:46 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (Photo: PTI)

Age Debate: Is this the end of AAP?

AAP will have to fight to survive after the corruption charge against Arvind Kejriwal.

11 May 2017 3:41 AM IST

British actor and comedian Stephen Fry (Photo: AP)

Is the rise in bigotry a sign of growing insecurity?

To their credit, local officials resisted the demand for instant injustice, but a young boy was killed in the violence.

11 May 2017 3:27 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

How reformer' Kejri has let down a cause

Kapil Mishra has opened the pandora's box by alleging that Mr Kejriwal had accepted Rs 2 crores from Satyendar Jain in...

11 May 2017 3:20 AM IST