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Ashraf Ghani (Photo: AP)

2019 elections have muddled intra-Afghan reconciliation

In the current environment, what are the options left for Pakistan? Complete detachment from the emerging situation in...

25 Feb 2020 2:51 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee (PTI file image)

A chance for Mamata to grab secular space?

West Bengal will be the most closely watched state in this contest.

25 Feb 2020 2:48 AM IST

The coronavirus is a family of viruses that can cause a range of illnesses in humans including common cold and more severe forms like SARS and MERS, which are life threatening.

Coronavirus now a pandemic

The fatalities stand at 2,619 in China even as 79,000 have been infected, while 27 died outside China.

25 Feb 2020 2:44 AM IST

US President Donald Trump (AFP photo)

A pitch to sell arms and a tribute to diversity

In today's context, this is an invitation to purchase defence systems more widely and deeply from the US.

25 Feb 2020 2:43 AM IST

The allure of prayer is so strong that people are not willing to get over it. There is certainly a bio-energetic reason why humans resort to praying in the hour of crisis.

Mystic Mantra: A prayer is a thank you' to existence

Therefore, Osho has changed the whole connotation of prayer. He says that prayer is the last stage, the culmination of...

24 Feb 2020 3:27 AM IST

Surely its time to recall how appeasing terrorism culminated in the horrific disaster of 2007. Thats when Islamabad became a battlefield above which thick smoke filled the sky for days. (Photo: ANI)

Lal Masjid: Is Pakistan's govt beginning to appease terror again?

The mosque's clerics had attracted around them a core of banned militant organisations including Al Qaeda and...

24 Feb 2020 3:23 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

India, US can work closely, but there are limits

What might further encourage such Opposition aspirants as Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee is that the economy is in the...

24 Feb 2020 3:18 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi (PTI file photo)

Bid to shield' Modi over CAA; rank and file for new Cong prez

Punjab Congress leaders are secretly celebrating the party's dismal performance and the Aam Aadmi Party's victory in the...

24 Feb 2020 3:13 AM IST

Meanwhile, Kashmir, which we rightly believe is nobodys business, appears to be becoming everybodys business. In Davos, with Imran Khan by his side, President Trump volunteered not for the first time to mediate between India and Pakistan. What Trump will say during his much-publicised visit is anybodys guess.

Compassion only door to hope in the Valley

At this stage we could claim that the security paradigm has succeeded but it shelf life has run out.

24 Feb 2020 3:10 AM IST

What is intriguing is that while anti-CAA protests are regularly been denied permission, those supporting the legislation get permission, the latest being the one to be addressed by Union home minister Amit Shah. In Uttar Pradesh, the police face allegations of shooting and killing protesters, though the chief minister denies wrongdoing on the part of the police. (Photo: P. Surendra)

Right to protest fundamental

The Supreme Court, on its part, has been negotiating with the Shaheen Bagh agitators fully recognising their right to...

24 Feb 2020 3:07 AM IST

Prime minister Narendra Modi

Judge's praise of PM height of sycophancy

The PM, in his speech, thanked India's judiciary for striking a balance between the needs of the environment and...

24 Feb 2020 3:05 AM IST

Population explosion has been a regularly used trope to incite fear and panic in many Third World countries. (Representational Image)

A new bill that is loaded against marginalised

The Economic Survey 2018-19 clearly states that India is set to witness a sharp slowdown in population growth in the...

23 Feb 2020 1:50 AM IST