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China has suffered a spate of industrial accidents in recent months. (Photo:AP)

As China, at 70, hits back at the West, India needs to watch out

It is important to check China's contemporary economic and financial standing.

30 Sept 2019 12:11 AM IST

Prime Minister Boris Johnsons Conservative Party lost a by-election in Wales, cutting his parliamentary majority to just one. (Photo: AFP)

Wasn't Boris meant to take a victory lap?

Jeremy Corbyn, it seems, has managed to alienate large parts of the Indian community in the UK by his statements on...

30 Sept 2019 12:02 AM IST

Pakistan is a key player in the talks between the Taliban and the US in an effort to end the war in Afghanistan and allow withdrawal of American troops. (Photo: AFP / File)

Stay agile in Kabul

It's a different matter whether peace can be brought about even if the talks are declared a success.

30 Sept 2019 12:01 AM IST

Two little children are lynched while s***ting because, as poor dalits, they have no toilet at home.

Dalit kids' deaths in MP a reality check

Caste equations between dalits and Yadavs should bear the blame for the allotment of the use of public toilets in...

30 Sept 2019 12:00 AM IST

Two little children are lynched while s***ting because, as poor dalits, they have no toilet at home.

The cast-iron shackles of caste that act to bind us

The juxtaposition of these two images show that caste is one of the structural pillars of new India.

29 Sept 2019 7:25 AM IST

Addressing a Martyrs Day rally, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Mysterious reshuffle

It was said that Ms Banerjee would request the Centre to send Mr Chaudhari to Kolkata to replace the outgoing chief...

29 Sept 2019 7:21 AM IST

World needs to be clear on what terrorism is

The lack of unanimity amongst us on the issue of terrorism dents those very principles that are the basis for the...

29 Sept 2019 7:21 AM IST

The willing participation of the bureaucracy in the Nazi criminal enterprise reached a nadir at the Wannsee Conference on January 24, 1942. In a villa in south Berlin over a sumptuous two-hour lunch laced with fine wines, Nazi apparatchiks, aided by what in the Indian parlance would be joint secretary-level officers drawn from across the German bureaucratic space, firmed up plans for the final solution to the Jewish question. The conference was the equivalent of an inter-ministerial consultation in the Indian context. (Photo:Pixabay)

Bureaucracy and the fascists

When the Nazis seized control in 1933, this permanent establishment formed the core of the German state.

29 Sept 2019 7:18 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: PTI)

Needless grief for homebuyers

The law regulating construction in the coastal areas was passed in the late eighties but it took almost 20 years for the...

29 Sept 2019 7:16 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday. (Photo: AP)

Kashmir, trade friction dent Houston cheer

The business of propaganda and image making has for now concluded.

29 Sept 2019 7:16 AM IST

Sunil Ambekar, national organising secretary, ABVP

'Hindutva is inclusivity. Whatever is different, we try to understand...

Together with people, we are trying to build a society having a strong character, says Sunil.

29 Sept 2019 6:59 AM IST

The RSS wants to have Manusmriti as the constitution of the country. (Photo: PTI)

Is Constitution 'anti-Hindu' or the RSS anti-Indian?

The RSS has now chosen to speak through its outfit, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

29 Sept 2019 12:00 AM IST