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Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

100 days of Modi 2.0: It's time to get going

The truth is out already that India is slowing down along with the rest of the world.

9 Sept 2019 5:05 AM IST

Wimbledon finalists Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer are on a semi-final collision course at the US Open after they were placed in the same half of the draw on Thursday. (Photo:AFP)

Legends feel their years

The question is how long these champions will defy time to stretch their unsurpassed feats.

9 Sept 2019 5:01 AM IST

Student activist Shehla Rashid Shora on Monday filed a case in Srinagar against mafia don Ravi Poojary for allegedly threatening her. (Photo: File)

Why the cops booked Shehla, and not BBC

These exaggerations by the state come in a vacuum created in the last week by the dwindling reportage on Kashmir in the...

9 Sept 2019 4:58 AM IST

The court had expressed reservation about religious conversion on the basis of mere affidavit on a stamppaper.

Conversion: The next frontier for Modi govt?

The acceptance of democracy as a way of life implies that we have accepted that we hold certain rights to be...

9 Sept 2019 1:06 AM IST

Ram Jethmalani will now try to persuade God in heaven

There are no disputes in heaven and therefore no opportunity for lawyers to practice their craft.

9 Sept 2019 12:56 AM IST

Security personnel patrol a deserted street in Srinagar on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Kashmir will not react and erupt in anger, Kashmir will respond

For now, the middle ground in Kashmir stands obliterated. In a new battle for existence, the multiple identities of...

9 Sept 2019 12:51 AM IST

Former Union minister Salman Khurshid

Distortion of democracy is evident. Is its dismantling on the way?'

There is no clarity of thought and vision in the government on how to get the economy back on track, says Salman...

8 Sept 2019 7:57 AM IST

External affairs minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Article 370 nixes MEA meet

The decision to call off the meeting was reportedly taken a couple of weeks after Article 370 was nullified.

8 Sept 2019 7:53 AM IST

The sources said, Election Commission would also ask law ministry to take call on its demand to extend constitutional protection to 2 election commissioners on lines of CEC. (Photo: File)

We must praise signatories to the open letter to India's 3 ECs

The media reported large-scale voter exclusion, with some accounts suggesting that voters from certain minority groups...

8 Sept 2019 7:50 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with ISRO Chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan after connection with the Vikram lander was lost during soft landing of Chandrayaan 2 on lunar surface, in Bengaluru on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Exploring space: Our next evolutionary step

The next step in such a scale would be to make life and consciousness multi-planetary.

8 Sept 2019 7:48 AM IST

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Taming Pawan Jaiswal: Journalism's dark hour

The Press Council of India took suo motu cognisance of what happened to Mr Jaiswal, and asked the UP government to...

8 Sept 2019 7:37 AM IST

Senior Congress leader and former Union minister P. Chidambaram after being produced at a court in the INX Media case in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Slowdown! Hard to fill Chidambaram, Jaitley shoes

To make matters worse, the battery of legal eagles in the Congress are loath to forgo their fees for their party...

8 Sept 2019 7:28 AM IST