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Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

PM ducks Assam visit

The PM was warned on December 30 not to visit Assam by the All Assam Students Union.

10 Jan 2020 12:07 AM IST

An image grab from footage obtained from the state-run Iran Press news agency on Wednesday allegedly shows rockets launched from the Islamic Republic against the US military base in Ein-al Asad in Iraq the prevous night. (Photo: Irna/Twitter)

Prospects of war in the Gulf recede

Iran had to respond militarily in line with the over-wrought emotional outburst in the country.

10 Jan 2020 12:06 AM IST

Tapping with bamboo is an ancient Chinese therapy called Pai Sha. (Photo: ANI)

Mystic Mantra: Choose to bloom rather than to survive

At a basic level, plants symbolise life.

9 Jan 2020 1:20 AM IST

$US President Donald Trump plans to make a \major statement\ at the White House at 9 am EST (1300 GMT) on Sunday, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said late on Saturday. (Photo: File)$ Opinion

Trump's call for dance of death in Middle East should go unrewarded

The general is routinely described in the Western media as a shadowy figure, but in recent decades he had operated...

9 Jan 2020 1:15 AM IST

$The amended Citizenship law along with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being planned by the Narendra Modi government \may affect the status\ of Muslim minority in India, a report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said. (Photo: PTI)$ Opinion

Why it's wrong to say liberals are intolerant

These protests fight the spirit and not the verse, they doubt not the actions but the intentions behind the law.

9 Jan 2020 1:13 AM IST

JNU students protest at Delhi Police Headquarters after some masked miscreants attacked in the campus. (Photo: PTI)

Young Indians want to take back stolen future

JNU students say the police remained standing by as the stick-wielding intruders exited the campus without any...

9 Jan 2020 1:02 AM IST

Harvey Weinstein.

#MeToo on trial: Will Harvey be convicted?

As the Weinstein trial progresses and more details come to light, similar conundrums are likely to emerge.

9 Jan 2020 12:58 AM IST

Deepika Padukone

Deepika, others take a stand

The government is unlikely to be amused by our celebrities stepping out of their comfort zones.

9 Jan 2020 12:44 AM IST

The convicts in the Nirbhaya case being taken to court (Photo: PTI)

Why the Nirbhaya case rapists must be hanged

When the rapist-murderers hang, it might seem like an atavistic trait of hanging becoming a public spectacle as in the...

9 Jan 2020 12:42 AM IST

When we enter silence, we enter the emptiness wherein the distinction between self and other, while not obliterated, is transcended. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: A quiet cheer for silence

Seekers have regularly practised the vow of silence for mastering their speech.

8 Jan 2020 2:28 AM IST

Soleimani heads the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force and also serves as Irans pointman on Iraq. (Photo: AP)

Who wants war? Next few weeks will test rationality of US, Iran

Syria is now a Russian protectorate and Iran looks set to advance its interests.

8 Jan 2020 2:26 AM IST

The fact that there is no mutual respect and trust between various cadres of Group 1 services of IR cannot be buried under the tracks, but of course with exceptions.

The message is loud and clear: No more fiefdoms for railway officers

These measures made rail travel a lot safer, as there were zero passenger deaths in FY 2019-20, till now, for the first...

8 Jan 2020 2:23 AM IST