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People hold placards during a protest against the CAA and NRC on New Years Eve at Shaheen Bagh, near Jamia Millia, in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

CAA: Social verdict poses constitutional dilemma

Significantly, these demonstrations have succeeded in puncturing the basic foundation on which rested CAA-NRC-NPR's...

23 Jan 2020 1:44 AM IST

Chandrashekhar Azad

A crisis of healthcare plagues India's jails

The recent public protests against the citizenship law and related matters bring to the fore the issue of a prisoner's...

23 Jan 2020 1:39 AM IST

It is not just the temperature, but the heat accompanied by humidity that makes it dangerous.

Fanning the foreigners

Mastery over a subjugated population, the British soon learnt, is not at all an easy task.

23 Jan 2020 1:35 AM IST

TD president N. Chandrababu Naidu (Photo: PTI)

Change capitals correctly

Mr Reddy as chief minister is doing the right thing on the issue of capitals, but he must also be guarded against not...

23 Jan 2020 1:24 AM IST

There is no doubt that this is a tough time for the Indian economy. Growth has slowed down to rates not seen since 2008-9. Consumption has fallen. Businesses have been pushed to the brink.

Controversy the govt's focus, not the economy

Perhaps Opposition parties and people themselves also should be blamed for the government losing its focus on the...

23 Jan 2020 1:20 AM IST

She is revered for the many voices she heard, which she believed were spiritual promptings to follow God. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: The sum and substance of life

The offshoot of such a norm is obvious it allures us to embrace and preserve the divine in everything .

22 Jan 2020 7:26 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)

Despite legacy of mutual suspicion, Opp. must fight with what it has

A victory should lead to an imminent reconciliation of secularist forces to rebuild the ruptured country and its frayed...

22 Jan 2020 7:23 AM IST

Qassem Soleimani

Post Soleimani, West Asia lurches from crisis to crisis

Khamenei was tough and uncompromising in his remarks. He referred to the previous fortnight as "historical days".

22 Jan 2020 7:20 AM IST

One could go on and on about the effects of climate change, but this newspaper has only 16 pages.

Put health on top of climate agenda

Increased frequency of extreme weather events also contributes to the disease burden.

22 Jan 2020 7:18 AM IST

After the Unnao rape victim succumbed to her injuries in Safdarjung Hospital here, Nirbhayas mother Asha Devi on Saturday said that the system and her seven-year struggle have been defeated today. (Photo: ANI)

Thinking forgiveness, mother-to-mother

The judge asked for restoration of order in the courtroom and the date of hanging was fixed.

22 Jan 2020 7:16 AM IST

BJP working president JP Nadda

Ready to take orders as chief

Last year he ran his party's Lok Sabha poll campaign in UP where the BJP did exceedingly well.

22 Jan 2020 7:14 AM IST

Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy

Jagan's move to shift capital to Vizag sound

Like his move to appoint five deputy chief ministers, which in effect means, no one really is a deputy CM.

22 Jan 2020 7:13 AM IST