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Security personnel stand guard during clashes in Northeast Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

Delhi 2020: The twisted logic of riot' messaging

The reported incidents of lives being lost and properties targeted were not the result of mob frenzy.

2 March 2020 3:05 AM IST

Local self-governments bore half the total estimated cost for each house. (Representational Image)

A roof for the homeless

The beneficiaries were fully spared the financial burden.

2 March 2020 3:01 AM IST

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the press following the US-Taliban deal signing ceremony in the Qatari capital Doha. (Photo: AFP)

New Delhi must show pragmatism in Kabul

The agreement also goes to show that yet another empire has gone down in Afghanistan, after the British and the Soviet.

2 March 2020 2:59 AM IST

Ram Nath Kovind

Dilli Ka Babu: Privileged connections

But Diwakar Nath Misra is no run-of-the-mill joint secretary.

1 March 2020 4:31 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi

The RSS is not amused with Modi's cult of personality

The RSS was not amused to see Modi build a cult of personality from the very outset. But it shrewdly assessed both cost...

1 March 2020 4:27 AM IST

The Centre for the Monitoring of the Indian Economy says that corporate sales declined by 1.2 per cent in the October-December 2019-20 quarter (having declined by 2.8 per cent before that) and profits before tax shrunk by 10 per cent (compared to a shrinkage of 60 per cent in the previous quarter).

A bad time for India, but with bad leadership

Outside of the formal sector, data has been difficult to collect credibly in India.

1 March 2020 4:24 AM IST

A book value in a sense represents a historical cost, or the purchase cost adjusted for depreciation while market value is the true value of the enterprise that can be realised in the open market.

The govt's grand garage sale of Air India

The book value of an enterprise can be markedly different from its market value.

1 March 2020 4:21 AM IST

File photo shows students protesting against Delhi Police outside the Jamia Millia Islamia University. (PTI photo)

Delhi loved and lost. Will it love again?

A college in Kutch too was painting the town red. Not with satin hearts and red velvet cupcakes, but with blood.

1 March 2020 4:18 AM IST

The heroines, I said. They get younger and younger and younger. Its brilliant. In fact, one hero, as we speak, has delayed his comeback project because he is waiting for his heroine to be born. I think they are going in for a C-section because the teasers are out. Hmmmm, said God.

10 reasons why I want to be reborn a South Hero

I've seen a couple. My wi-fi has been down. The Dthritarashtra-Sanjaya Network is up for sale, as you know.

1 March 2020 4:14 AM IST

Photo: Imran Khan Instagram

PTI: Too young a dream to have lost all its romance already

The possibilities of politics in Punjab under Sardar Buzdar, tasked with granting or refusing relief to Mian Nawaz...

29 Feb 2020 7:17 AM IST

It takes time to hone and propel a higher purpose in life, just as much it takes leisure to mature, or mellow.

Mystic Mantra: What happens to us after death?

We have heard gossip about heaven and hell, but there is no confirmed information.

29 Feb 2020 7:14 AM IST

Harvey Weinstein.

When British VIPs get away with sexual abuse

Weinstein, with a very successful film company behind him, sported one magnetic field of power.

29 Feb 2020 7:11 AM IST