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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informs that during protests 7 police vehicles and 79 KSRTC buses have been damaged. (Photo: ANI)

Flap in Kerala as babu defends killing Maoists

The article had come as a counter, mainly to the CPI's criticism and the Congress-led Opposition's campaign of police...

9 Nov 2019 12:34 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

With polls in UK, will Brexit vote remain binding? Or not as such?

Boris makes other promises: to extend jail sentences, build more prisons and fund health and schools, but their main...

9 Nov 2019 12:30 AM IST

It did no homework, involving the investigation officer and the available witnesses on how to effectively present the case in the court.

Court's duty to Walayar girls

The government and the courts must do whatever it takes to get justice delivered.

9 Nov 2019 12:05 AM IST

Action on Taseer is a blot on India's image

The home ministry would be fully aware of this and had no business raising any queries.

9 Nov 2019 12:00 AM IST

Maulana Fazlur Rehman

Maulana Fazlur Rehman's stir multi-legged race of rivals

Today's parliaments are no longer under threat from below as much as from without and within.

8 Nov 2019 2:36 AM IST

Had India become a part of the bloc, it would have had the third highest GDP just below Japan and above South Korea, and tied with South Korea for the third highest global trade.

India dodges RCEP, but can't avoid Reforms 2.0

Exports to China account for just around 15 per cent, while another 11 per cent go to other destinations in East Asia.

8 Nov 2019 2:31 AM IST

Indias IT professionals have had a good run in regularly getting about 70 per cent of 85,000 H-1B visas each year.

H-1B dip: Trade dispute to blame

The US administration was threatening from June that H-1B visas may be severely restricted.

8 Nov 2019 2:26 AM IST

Finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman expects over 1,600 stalled projects having 4.58 lakh housing units could avail of this funding.

The real estate bailout: How many will it save?

While the intention behind the Cabinet decision is good, it is inadequate to solve the real estate crisis.

8 Nov 2019 2:23 AM IST

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

In Baghdadi's death, did US really 'kill its own creature'?

When history is written, Mr Trump will be chastised for a hundred reasons, and severely.

8 Nov 2019 2:19 AM IST

One of the great scholars when it comes to Urdu literature, Gopi Chand Narang, was quoted as saying that, Urdu is not the language of Muslims. If at all there is any language of Muslims, it should be Arabic. Urdu belongs to the composite culture of India. Hindi and Urdu are supplementary and complementary. They are like sisters strengthening each other .

Urdu has a glorious past, but will its future too be bright?

In order to fully grasp the state of the Urdu language in the post-Independence period, an examination of the roots of...

8 Nov 2019 1:56 AM IST

Abhijit Banerjee, this years Nobel laureate in Economics

'India may have walked out of RCEP too early'

The nature of the bureaucratic beast is a bit against the spirit of doing something long term.

8 Nov 2019 1:45 AM IST

Winston Churchill (Photo: AP)

Thirty years after fall of Berlin Wall, democracy in Europe is in...

Inevitably, this has consequences, both within nation states and in the wider European context.

7 Nov 2019 4:10 AM IST