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Vladimir Putin was speaking at the G20 summit in Osaka where he met US President Donald Trump to discuss issues ranging from trade to disarmament. (Photo: AP)

Why liberalism' makes Russia's Putin see red

Putin has challenged so conspicuously. In Osaka he said liberalism was obsolete .

2 July 2019 2:56 AM IST

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walk on the North Korean side in the Demilitarized Zone, Sunday, June 30, 2019 at Panmunjom. (Photo: AP)

Positive signals from G-20 meet as diplomacy triumphs over rhetoric

It sets the agenda for the recovery of global growth in a balanced and sustainable manner.

2 July 2019 1:22 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: The healing effects of hugging

There is an emotional need to touch somebody or be touched by them.

1 July 2019 12:06 AM IST

BJP senior leader LK Advani during the release of the Commemorative volumes on Chandra Shekhar and Jagannath Rao Joshi at the Parliament Library building in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

When LK Advani apologised to Sonia Gandhi

There are many others who were viscerally opposed to the Congress Party's style of government and what it represents.

1 July 2019 12:05 AM IST

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo with external affairs minister S. Jaishankar (above) during a joint press conference in New Delhi. (Photo: G.N. Jha)

India & US can nurture their strategic ties with tradeoffs' and...

The statements of Mr Pompeo and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar reflect an unmistakable tone of realism.

1 July 2019 12:04 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Donald Trump and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe share a fist bump during their meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. (Photo: AP)

Match interests with pull from China, Russia, US

The US threatened to take the matter before UN Security Council, where China feared questioning by members in open...

1 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Urging the people to ensure that the BJP wins more than 23 out of 42 seats in the state, Amit Shah said it would ensure that the syndicate raj ends within 90 days in Bengal. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

In Valley, Shah sticks to the beaten path

The home minister's trip gave no signs that this might happen anytime soon.

1 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Are dignity and empowerment above economics and security?

The recent Quetta Literary Festival (QLF) reflected this growing anxiety among the intelligentsia and educated youth of...

1 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

55-year-old Pehlu Khan was beaten to death on April 1 in Rajasthans Alwar district by a mob of gau rakshaks. (Photo: Screengrab)

No justice for Pehlu Khan

It is the enabling of an environment for lynching by official India that is frightening.

1 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Modi reaffirms faith in babus

There is also a school of thought that a civil service background does not necessarily make someone a better minister.

30 Jun 2019 12:36 AM IST

Sources said that though junior level officials from both sides were having flag meetings.

When Pakistan exalts Indian heroes

Knowledge of this will confuse most Indians because our understanding is coloured by our religious nationalism.

30 Jun 2019 12:27 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

'One nation, one election' is an assault on federalism

Modi had no qualms in claiming that it was not his but the nation's ideaâ€.

30 Jun 2019 12:23 AM IST