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Remembering Safdar Hashmi in today's India

Safdar was fatally assaulted on New Year's Day in 1989 while performing a street play for mill workers near Delhi.

4 Jan 2017 2:32 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Go beyond cash, lies & sound bytes

The last two months have showed who actually gets hurt when government indulges in stupid policy-making.

4 Jan 2017 1:46 AM IST

Forgiveness is the most effective tool to let go of the past, to erase hatred, enmity and misery and to burn away past impressions. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Write a new story on a clean slate

It is the time to build virtues of humility, non-violence, austerity, honesty, sacrifice, forgiveness, etc.

3 Jan 2017 1:08 AM IST

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2017: Crucial year for Pak's democracy

The challenges of 2017 will have to be tackled by the civilian administration, solved by diplomacy not might.

3 Jan 2017 12:59 AM IST

Cash worth Rs 10.5 lakh in defunct notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 was seized from a former BJP corporator near Saswad, Maharashtra. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

A leap backwards to raid raj?

India, which consumes as much as 67 per cent of its GDP domestically, has been impacted adversely.

3 Jan 2017 12:51 AM IST

President-elect Donald Trump. (Photo: File)

Europe can save or kill globalisation

The New Year can redress the balance of the old by recognising refugees as victims of history.

3 Jan 2017 12:25 AM IST

Chief Election Commissioner Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi. (Photo: PTI/File)

Too many problems in state funding of elections

An official said that it would require a lot of time and effort to bring about a consensus on the proposal and to settle...

3 Jan 2017 12:18 AM IST

A police officer looks a photographs of the victims displayed a day after an attack at a popular nightclub in Istanbul. (Photo: AP)

Stand by Turkey in crisis

Among the 39 dead are more than 15 foreigners from many parts of the world, including two from India.

3 Jan 2017 12:07 AM IST

BCCI President Anurag Thakur

Landmark verdict may cleanse cricket admin

Two of the last four presidents of BCCI have been dismissed from their posts.

3 Jan 2017 12:02 AM IST

Uma Bharti (Photo: PTI)

Curious case of missing' Uma

The arrest of actor-turned Trinamul Congress MP Tapas Paul incensed Mamata Banerjee.

2 Jan 2017 1:15 AM IST

As per estimates, only 5 per cent Indians use digital payment modes.

Beware of digital dictatorship

We live in times where the non-working rent collectors and speculators have emerged as the richest billionaires.

2 Jan 2017 1:04 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

Seven things that can go wrong for Nawaz in 2017

Corruption has a funny way of striking where few anticipate. Pakistan is ripe for an epic scandal.

2 Jan 2017 12:55 AM IST