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Tamil Nadu chief secretary K. Shanmugam (Photo: DC)

Dilli Ka Babu: TN babus divided over circular

It's no secret that the Centre is struggling to induce states to fulfil their quota of central deputation of IAS and IPS...

4 Aug 2019 1:01 AM IST

Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

The Speaker's impartiality is indispensable

In India, the Economist's words would be seen as Speakers' violating parliamentary privilege.

4 Aug 2019 12:54 AM IST

Pakistan has nothing to do with 9/11. says Imran Khan (Photo: File)

An escalating crackdown on critical comment is under way

In his long campaign, Imran Khan was helped by a media that boosted his image uncritically.

4 Aug 2019 12:41 AM IST

The Central government is not the lone torch-bearer of the nations economic growth. The achievements and failures, the contradictions and anomalies are spread out in both the Central and state budgets.

That sinking feeling

Official figures released last week show eight core sectors grew in June at a mere 0.2 per cent, the lowest in about...

4 Aug 2019 12:32 AM IST

US President Donald Trump greets Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House in Washington DC on Monday. (Photo: AFP)

India must tell US why Valley strictly bilateral

Delhi has much to lose, and very little to gain from Washington muddying the waters.

4 Aug 2019 12:28 AM IST

Following colour therapy and incorporating crystals in your daily life can help balance these chakras. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra - The aura: Just a surface phenomenon

Every substance on the planet has a certain field of energy around it.

3 Aug 2019 1:17 AM IST

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that the attack bore all the hallmarks of an attack by the Syrian regime. (Photo: AP)

Racism is the secret allure of the Take Back Control' call of UK PM

The Nazis, Brown Shirts and imperial Japanese came to rule their countries though hard-core patriotic appeal.

3 Aug 2019 1:17 AM IST

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

Boris made PM to ward off fresh UK elections

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson would be perfectly qualified to jig to that number if he disciplined his hair with...

3 Aug 2019 1:17 AM IST

US President Donald Trump

US in Afghan a copybook case: How not to fight a war

Steve Coll, journalist and author of Ghost Wars, has revealed some interesting facts about the Afghan war in his new...

3 Aug 2019 1:16 AM IST

People take part in a protest to express solidarity with the Unnao rape survivor at India Gate in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Unnao: It's time to act, outrage is not enough

So when help is denied to a hapless citizen at all levels, it could not but end in tragedy of enormous proportion.

3 Aug 2019 1:16 AM IST

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. (Photo: File/AP)

Iran: US must back away

Trump has evidently chosen this path to close in on Iran along with allies Saudi Arabia and Israel.

3 Aug 2019 1:16 AM IST

Accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar was not arrested even after an FIR. (Photo: ANI)

Top court rushes to the rescue in Unnao case

The issue goes far beyond a rape case in a country in which statistics show rape is the fourth largest crime.

3 Aug 2019 1:16 AM IST