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Russia would be banned for four years from the Olympic and Paralympic Summer and Winter Games. That rules an official Russian team out of Tokyo 2020 and the Beijing Winter Olympics of 2022. (Photo: AFP)

Quasi ban means nothing

The problem is that the state-sponsored cheating of the Communist era isn't over yet in Russia.

11 Dec 2019 1:25 AM IST

The difference is that by tapping into our souls state of unconditional love through meditation, we can receive all the fulfillment and intoxication we desire. (Representional Image)

Mystic Mantra: Meditate and celebrate your original being

The real spiritual approach is not life imitating art or science, but the art of living a life of originality.

11 Dec 2019 1:23 AM IST

Self-styled godman Swami Nithyananda, booked in a criminal case related to his ashram here, has fled the country, with the Gujarat police working to gather concrete evidence against him after taking two of his disciples in remand, officials said on Thursday. (Photo: File)

How to start your own country: All you need is friends'

The Gujarat police reported last month that Nithyananda had fled from India.

11 Dec 2019 1:21 AM IST

US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Trump's America First' opportunity for India

Piggybacking on Trump's US is a guaranteed path to Brazil's decline.

11 Dec 2019 1:18 AM IST

Jaya Bachchan's way is simply wrong: Revenge is not justice

Evidence shows that rape breathes and thrives in the acid air of patriarchy.

11 Dec 2019 1:16 AM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah (Photo: ANI)

Govt misleading nation on Cong and Partition

This is a terrible argument and unbecoming of any Indian of any worth, for it plays into the hands of colonial...

11 Dec 2019 12:55 AM IST

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa celebrated the early leads with his son BY Vijayendra who sought his fathers blessings and greeted him with sweets. (Photo: ANI)

After bypoll triumph, BSY's stock is rising

The BJP added insult to injury by appointing not one but three deputy chief ministers to nursemaid him when he did take...

10 Dec 2019 1:41 AM IST

Police personnel cordon off the site of a fire as onlookers stand at Rani Jhansi Road in New Delhi on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

Blame games and death traps

Small accidents occur with a sickening regularity across north and central Delhi, infamous for its overhanging cables...

10 Dec 2019 1:39 AM IST

Antonio Guterress statement came ahead of the UN General Assembly session where Pakistan has said that it would raise the issue of Kashmir. The country is rattled by the Indian governments move to abrogate Article 370 of the constitution that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: ANI)

As climate crisis grows, all of us should act now

The efforts of governments, corporations and individuals are just not enough to slow down, leave alone reverse, the...

10 Dec 2019 1:37 AM IST

In the years since, the guidelines have focused on the saturated fat found in foods like meat, butter and some packaged foods, saying it should be limited to 10% of calories. (Photo: AP)

Is this way to a healthy future? Fake' meat, made in a lab

Going further, we find that producing a pound of beef takes about 1,799 gallons of water which is arguably not exactly...

10 Dec 2019 1:06 AM IST

The CPI(M) reiterates its strong opposition to the abrogation of Sec 370 as well as the division and reduced status of the State of J&K, the Polit Bureau of thepaty said. (Photo: File)

What is left of India's Left and what lies ahead for it?

The CPI was more realistic, dropping proletarian dictatorship from its party programme.

10 Dec 2019 1:03 AM IST

Our conviction of His existence gets proven beyond doubt, and thereby faith, devotion and trust get strengthened. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The three stages of God realisation

The ignorance of duality and separation from Him is lost and we become one with Him.

10 Dec 2019 12:57 AM IST