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Union home minister Amit Shah (Photo: PTI)

Towards pan-India NRC: Creating climate of fear?

It is a known fact that the NRC in Assam was meant to detect illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

22 Nov 2019 2:30 AM IST

Sourav Ganguly convinced the Bangladesh Cricket Board to agree to a Day/Night Test just a few days before their team was to land in India. (Photo: PTI)

Pink cricket in India, at last

Spotting the ball in twilight isn't easy and the pink ball tends to do a lot more in playing tricks off the surface.

22 Nov 2019 2:28 AM IST

Union home minister Amit Shah (Photo: PTI)

NRC volte-face raises spectre of turbulence

The issues involved in the discussion so far also throw up conceptual wrongheadedness about mixing up citizenship with...

22 Nov 2019 2:20 AM IST

The trees have practically shed their leaves. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: What fruits do I and my actions produce?'

Despite Austria being a small country, its vast expanse is covered with lovely forests, which many people use for their...

21 Nov 2019 2:34 AM IST

China on Saturday deployed its troops in Hong Kong for the first time since the unprecedented pro-democracy protests began in the former British colony more than five months ago over a proposed extradition law, with soldiers in plain clothes clearing the roadblocks. (Photo: AP)

Hong Kong's authorities have dug themselves a hole and there's no way...

The authorities declared that the protesters holed up on the campus, most of them students, had no option other than to...

21 Nov 2019 2:30 AM IST

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray

The long and short of Shiv Sena's rebellion

With Uddhav Thackeray's refusal to go along with the BJP after the polls, the ruling party at the Centre has been given...

21 Nov 2019 2:26 AM IST

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

PML-N needs a leader; split looms for PTI

Nawaz Sharif has finally flown out but it's not curtains yet. It's now the beginning of Act 2 of the ongoing political...

21 Nov 2019 2:24 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Brazils President Michel Temer and Russian President Vladimir Putin get ready for a group photo at the Brics Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday. (Photo: AP)

Amid a changing world, can Brics find new role?

A British economist had coined the acronym Bric in 2001, identifying four high-growth economies that could dominate...

21 Nov 2019 2:22 AM IST

US President Donald Trump has said that he is considering signing the first phase of the long-awaited trade deal with China in Iowa. (Photo: File)

US sets a bad example

It's also a deeper message to American Jews, whose votes Mr Trump needs as he seeks re-election next year.

21 Nov 2019 2:19 AM IST

Farooq Abdullah

Why can't Farooq, PC attend Winter Session?

Their imprisonment is a sorry reflection on the working of our democracy.

21 Nov 2019 2:18 AM IST

Franciss writings overflowed with the love of God and neighbours. His Introduction to the Devout Life and Love of God and Spiritual Conferences are spiritual classics with striking sayings like: (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The strength of a remorseful heart

The Creator has placed a unique volitional quality in man's psyche and that is what is called repentance .

20 Nov 2019 2:40 AM IST

A blanket of haze over Delhi thickened this morning with the national capitals pollution levels increasing overnight by around 50 points, taking the overall air quality index to 459. (Photo: ANI)

Severe to very poor: Air quality is a metaphor for political...

The Delhi Met Bureau may have actually made a deeply philosophical observation with its imagery applicable to several...

20 Nov 2019 2:36 AM IST