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Security agencies apprehend trouble in certain pockets of the state as verification of family trees brought to light that suspected foreigners are trying to get their names enrolled in the NRC.

Misgivings over NRC

The exercise conducted in Assam so far has placed four million persons out of the state's 33-million population on the...

19 July 2019 12:02 AM IST

The 48-year-old former Naval officer, Kulbhushan Jadhav, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism on April 11, 2017. (Photo: File)

There's an opportunity in reprieve for Jadhav

The celebration of the reprieve is justified, but we may have to wait longer to see Jadhav's return to India.

19 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

President Donald Trump says Iran wants to make a deal. (Photo:AP)

America & Pakistan: Back to a cosy future

New Delhi's greatest concern traditionally has been the transfer of military systems and technology to Islamabad.

19 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. (Photo: AP)

Tensions simmer in Tehran, hard times for Bibi

The point is that the Shias latched on to Karbala, a relatively recent event in history, as the ideal for morality and...

18 July 2019 11:59 PM IST

Devotees pay their respects on the eve of 548th birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: Gold of character must pass test of fire

God then finds ways of washing and sifting us as thoroughly as possible by providing us His Word and teachings through...

18 July 2019 2:48 AM IST

The discovery of the four largest moons of Jupiter four centuries ago gave astronomers a first hint that giant planets must form surrounded by a circumplanetary disc. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Space race notwithstanding, moonwalk a feat of mankind

f the Soviets were reaching for the moon, the Americans were determined to beat them to it.

18 July 2019 2:42 AM IST

This law allowed the government the discretion to describe troublesome civil society organisations as political , and thus to prevent their access to foreign funding.

Where parties fail, can civil society succeed?

Defending the people and fighting for their rights at the ground level became less and less important.

18 July 2019 1:55 AM IST

President Donald Trump says Iran wants to make a deal. (Photo:AP)

Trump, Saudis & Iran: Is toppling in the offing?

The measure seeks to authorise the President to suspend US visas of Saudi citizens, including specifically government...

18 July 2019 12:05 AM IST

Rescue team at the spot where the four-storey building collapsed in Dongri on Tuesday. (Photo: RAJESH JADHAV)

Building safety audits vital

When the monsoon hits, the condition of old buildings is severely tested.

18 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: PTI)

SC order death knell for Cong-JDS govt?

The prospect of the BJP forming a government in Karnataka under state chief B.S. Yeddyurappa is clearly an all-too-real...

18 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Speaker Ramesh Kumar

Can Speaker dictate terms of resignation?

The Congress as a party would not want to be blackmailing the government.

17 July 2019 2:45 AM IST

There are chances of Pakistan following this worldwide trend not so much for reporting, but because of the haphazard world of social media.

Media under fire all over, but giving up not an option

The idea behind the billion-dollar fund is to support media platforms, good journalism and individual journalists.

17 July 2019 2:40 AM IST