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Kartarpur Corridor

Kartarpur: Flawed strategy?

Pakistan, to India's surprise, agreed to allow 5,000 pilgrims to visit every day, and 10,000 on special occasions.

17 July 2019 2:36 AM IST

US President Donald Trump

Donald Trump on the warpath ahead of 2020 election

May's comments reflect the damage that Mr Trump may have caused to US-British relations.

17 July 2019 2:33 AM IST

Tolerance has an odour of superiority, and its implication is that one is impacted and bothered about the conduct of others but chooses not to mind.

Mystic Mantra: The virtues of tolerance

Tolerance helps us understand humans and build trust with people.

17 July 2019 2:28 AM IST

The 1983 and 2011 Indian cricket teams that won the world cup encompassed what Rahul Dravid would call the countrys cultural colours, which were just about missing in Virat Kohlis social mix.

Link between cricket and the nation was neither natural nor inevitable

And why forget that even the West Indies inducted a white player in the squad against New Zealand in the 1970s.

17 July 2019 2:24 AM IST

Another nation which has used the same principles in employing proxies to gain strategic advantage or neutralise its adversaries has been Iran; in fact in a far more refined way.

Iran deploying proxies to resist US coercion?

How proxies fit into the genre of modern warfare is an important aspect to analyse to assess the emerging threats in the...

17 July 2019 2:14 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of various projects in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. (Photo: ANI)

For economic progress, learn from the Chinese

Deep social change is at the heart of economic progress.

16 July 2019 12:55 AM IST

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that it takes very little to worsen a situation and he was a promoter of peace. (Photo: AFP)

Need focus on increasing political bias of news leaks

It seems we should focus less on the leaks and the journalists who publish them, and more on the underlying political...

16 July 2019 12:53 AM IST

The difference is that by tapping into our souls state of unconditional love through meditation, we can receive all the fulfillment and intoxication we desire. (Representional Image)

Mystic Mantra: The soul is the fount of conscious awareness

It is this reality that establishes the pristine role of our conscious awareness in the working of our mind, body and...

16 July 2019 12:52 AM IST

Two Pakistani troopers were killed by the Indian Army in response to ceasefire violations along the LoC in Tangdhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir. (Representational Image | PTI)

Govt can't drop its guard in J&K

It is no one's case that certain individual mistakes, excesses or even policy failures have not happened.

16 July 2019 12:52 AM IST

Four years of hard work and three weeks of cricket under intense stress must not be reduced to a contest of one over to each team.

WC: Both teams should have been joint winners

Those celebrating like Team England and Novak Djokovic were genuinely commiserative of the vanquished in New Zealand and...

16 July 2019 12:52 AM IST

BJP leader Mukul Roy interacts with media people during a press conference, in Kolkata on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

In party defections, voters are being cheated

When 34 per cent of the panchayat seats in West Bengal went unopposed to the Trinamul Congress, Mr Shah described the...

16 July 2019 12:36 AM IST

The Chandrayaan-2 has three modules Orbiter, Lander and Rover. (Photo: ANI)

Isro: Better safe than sorry

Sometimes, the smallest problems can doom a satellite and in the most tragic circumstances, an entire crew.

16 July 2019 12:12 AM IST