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India and France: Enduring, reliable partners

India undoubtedly needs all its energies, resources and friends to fight on these two separate fronts.

4 Sept 2019 1:28 AM IST

Romila Thapar and JNU: Can India's Left go to the rescue?

The octogenarian opposed narrow Muslim demands in the 1970s to change the secular character of AMU.

4 Sept 2019 1:25 AM IST

Don't shoot the messengers

It's the mindset that's to blame for such pinpricks inflicted on opponents, flowing from ideological undercurrents.

4 Sept 2019 1:23 AM IST

former Union minister Arif Mohammed Khan

Let governors not be Centre's political arm

This is naturally in the expectation that the appointees may continue to be of use to the BJP.

4 Sept 2019 1:21 AM IST

People queue up to check their names on the final draft of the states National Register of Citizens after it was released, at an NRC Seva Kendra in Nagaon. (Photo: PTI)

Where will the people left out of the NRC go?

The list is out, but the suspense and trauma is not over yet for nearly 19 lakh people as their names are excluded from...

4 Sept 2019 1:20 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has formed a seven-member committee in connection with the status of Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: ANI)

Global realignments & some lessons for India

Russia's re-emergence as a strategic player in West Asia and Gulf and its close monitoring of Afghanistan revives its...

2 Sept 2019 12:17 AM IST

Pak Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa (Photo: AFP)

Extension for Gen. Bajwa perhaps not a good idea

The reality is that most civil servants have not cultivated many interests outside their jobs.

2 Sept 2019 12:12 AM IST

Ganesha Idol at Lalbaughcha Raja in Mumbai. (Photo: Twitter | @ANI)

Mystic Mantra: Hail Ganesha, bestower of accomplishments

Ganesh is one such energy, the lord of ganas or masses, and it is the closest to physical creation the world as seen by...

2 Sept 2019 12:10 AM IST

They make it difficult for people to get bail and such laws give the police a sweeping power that makes corruption and tyranny easy. (Representional Image)

End all caste prejudices

The practice may have subsided after the controversy came out into the open, but the deep-rooted prejudices in society...

2 Sept 2019 12:08 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo: AFP)

Tories zoom ahead in opinion polls, BoJo and Trump now fast friends

While under Theresa May, the former PM, Tories were lagging behind Labour, now they have zoomed ahead by a seven-point...

2 Sept 2019 12:06 AM IST

The National Register of Citizenship phenomena, therefore, looks different, smells different and feels different.

NRC: Final list may not be the end of the matter

It has been a gigantic effort that stretched five years, but the result is unlikely to elicit any applause.

2 Sept 2019 12:06 AM IST

Kashmiri children play gully cricket in a shut-down market in central Srinagar.

Before the courts, not all J&K visitors are equal

In the past fortnight, as many as 14 Kashmir-related cases have been filed in the Supreme Court.

2 Sept 2019 12:05 AM IST