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Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Communists might back Bernie, but he's not one

Mr Sanders, the longest serving Independent senator, joined the Democratic Party last year only.

3 March 2020 2:58 AM IST

Osho says: Awareness means an intensity. Such an intensity of wakefulness that no thought interferes with. You are simply conscious without any thought. Try it. You can try it anywhere.

Mystic Mantra: What is the way beyond violence?

There are billions of religious people all over the earth who believe in their particular religions, and they love and...

2 March 2020 3:14 AM IST

The inception of Pakistans e-surveillance programme can be traced back to the evolution of Nadra into a national registry and centralised database of all citizens. (Photo: Pixabay)

Pakistan: Without data protection & privacy laws, Internet can be...

The citizen protection rules are the most recent in a long chain of events that illustrate how the state is expanding...

2 March 2020 3:11 AM IST

British PM to get married, in office

Meanwhile, this will be the first wedding in over 200 years of a sitting Prime Minister. Bring out the buntings!

2 March 2020 3:09 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Donald Trump after their joint press statement in New Delhi Tuesday. (Photo: G.N. JHA)

Thin skin, big chip, yes; yet Hindutva rise impacts us all

Over the years, it would appear that Indian skin has become thinner, and the chip Indians carry on their shoulders has...

2 March 2020 3:07 AM IST

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