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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addresses a Post-Budget press conference in New Delhi on Wendnesday. (Photo: PTI)

7 per cent GDP? Wait to see if it was fact or fiction

The success of the digital mode is evident in the soaring revenues of one payment firm and many others who were suddenly...

4 March 2017 5:22 AM IST

President Pranab Mukherjee (Photo: PTI)

Intolerance is un-Indian

Finance minister Arun Jaitley rushed to the defence of the ABVP, his former organisation, in a less circuitous manner.

4 March 2017 5:21 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election rally at Langjing Achouba ground, Imphal West. (Photo: PTI)

As Manipur simmers, will the lotus bloom?

This is for the first time in 15 years that the Congress is faced with a real Opposition that is threatening to unseat...

4 March 2017 5:19 AM IST

In addition to the boon and bane, a wealthy person also confronts several dilemmas and tough choices both on the personal front and the work front.

Life isn't all easy for a billionaire

At the higher end of wealth spectrum, money is not a motivating factor anymore.

4 March 2017 5:18 AM IST

A person reading the Holy Quran

Mystic Mantra: Arabi's path of unconditional love

In fact, the soul of Islam has been protected by mystics like Ibn Arabi, who harboured the inclusivist and pluralistic...

3 March 2017 6:39 AM IST

Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar. (Photo: AP)

Pakistan drifts towards isolation

Pakistanis from shifting blame on its deteriorating security situation and growing intolerance on the footsteps of the...

3 March 2017 6:38 AM IST

Coca Cola. (Photo: Representational Image)

Cola ban call a bad idea

In today's interlinked world, such bans based on emotion may not work too well.

3 March 2017 6:34 AM IST

Indian army and paramilitary soldiers leave the site of a gun battle with suspected rebels in Hajin Village, northeast of Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

As summer nears, are our forces prepared?

Well-trained terrorists found it a cakewalk to stroll into a major defence area and attempt to create a hostage-like...

3 March 2017 6:34 AM IST

Triple talaq has been distorted in India, and its far more important to ban this than use it as a wedge to encroach on Muslim personal laws. (Photo: PTI)

Will Muslim vote split help BJP to win UP?

Caste identity and in some contexts religious identity is shaping the choices of voters in UP.

3 March 2017 6:31 AM IST

US President Donald Trump after his first address to a joint session of Congress in Washington. (Photo: AFP)

Who exactly is a jihadist? Team Trump looks divided

Violent jihadists, on Gorka's account, are not non-Muslim or even bad Muslims.

3 March 2017 6:30 AM IST

Happiness is always guaranteed when we confer it on others. It can never be had by seeking.

Mystic Mantra: Real happiness is eternal

Everything is changing here, whether it is physical matter, an object or a physical body.

2 March 2017 6:58 AM IST

Indian army and paramilitary soldiers leave the site of a gun battle with suspected rebels in Hajin Village, northeast of Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

Why can't Indians write good memoirs?

Our public servants are mostly known for their loquaciousness after they demit office but very few actually pen their...

2 March 2017 6:53 AM IST