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The sources said, Election Commission would also ask law ministry to take call on its demand to extend constitutional protection to 2 election commissioners on lines of CEC. (Photo: File)

A strange duality casts a shadow over election

The Annual Survey of Education Report 2018 records that one-third of those schooled till Class 8 cannot even read a...

7 May 2019 1:47 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Representional Image)

Economy in poor shape, the slowdown is evident

Truce violations by Pakistan have increased by 100 per cent in the last five years.

7 May 2019 1:41 AM IST

Pledging to work as a symbol of the people, Naruhito, 59, was formally invested as emperor the day after. (Photo:AP)

As Japan enters the Reiwa' era, India must focus on boosting strategic...

Japan's deeply venerated emperors do not exercise even the informal political influence that Britain's Queen Elizabeth...

7 May 2019 1:39 AM IST

Yoga is the journey from A to B. A, is where you are, B is the finality. Guru, is someone, who has already walked that path and has the experience of finality. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The tree is the being closest to God - Why?

The greater the sacrifice, the more is your glow, and the sooner you are seen by the divine.

7 May 2019 1:32 AM IST

BJP on Tuesday described Congress chief Rahul Gandhis remark that he will not allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sleep until farm loans are waived as new low in public discourse. (Photo: File)

The Economist & the art of eternal daydreaming

Its claim of a raging Hindu-Muslim divide by the current government is also equally baseless.

7 May 2019 1:16 AM IST

Chinese lesson: Paying a price for uprightness

Hai Rui himself was however known primarily as a Neo-Confucian and never discussed Islam in his Confucian works.

6 May 2019 4:36 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Get recycled with meditation

Meditators and yogis are rumoured to be healthy and fit for a longer time than the non-meditators.

6 May 2019 12:36 AM IST

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

A lack of grace and wit: Sad story of Polls 2019

It would have been interesting even if the two spoke from the same stage, spelling out their respective views of what...

6 May 2019 12:32 AM IST

Sri Lankan security personnel walk past debris next to a dead body slumped over a bench following an explosion in St Sebastians Church in Negombo, north of the capital Colombo, on April 21, 2019. (Photo: AFP)

To end jihad in Lanka, jobs are not the mantra

There are many others in the Muslim world who fall into the category of educated, well-off killers.

6 May 2019 12:27 AM IST

A man climbs atop the open jeep and slaps chief minister Arvind Kejriwal during a roadshow in Moti Nagar on Saturday. Mr Kejriwal was campaigning for New Delhi Lok Sabha seat candidate Brijesh Goyal. (Photo: PTI)

Unfair targeting of Kejriwal

Even so, it is a pity that a particular politician must be treated so shabbily.

6 May 2019 12:24 AM IST

Sitaram Yechury

Not Hindu violence, but Hindutva terror

Violence in one form or another has been an aspect of living, not just of change and evolution, in all societies,...

6 May 2019 12:22 AM IST

BJP minister of state Col. (Retd) Rajyavardhan Rathore (Photo: Biplab Banerjee)

Congress is the party that committed a scam even in the field of...

Narendra Modi's name is a synonym for strong, decisive and transparent government which also empowers people, says...

5 May 2019 1:01 AM IST