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Some retailers are betting on fans superstition to help them sell televisions, especially after Brazil was unceremoniously axed from the 2014 contest in a 7-1 blowout loss to Germany.

Don't watch TV channels that whip up war hysteria

Exceptions apart, TV anchors are mostly lip-syncing the script handed by someone else.

20 Feb 2019 3:00 AM IST

personnel stands guard during curfew in Srinagar on Sunday. Authorities imposed curfew in the parts of Valley following the killing of a top militant commander at Tral in Pulwama District of South Kashmir Yesterday. (Photo: PTI)

Securing India is costly, think afresh on growth

The Pulwama massacre illustrates how porous our security architecture remains to domestic and external threats.

20 Feb 2019 3:00 AM IST

Shaktikanta Das

RBI toes government's line

There shouldn't be any harm to the nation's finances if the subsidies and handouts don't lead to any inflationary...

20 Feb 2019 3:00 AM IST

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis

Seats deal with Sena major relief to BJP

The Shiv Sena and the Akali Dal are the BJP's oldest allies.

20 Feb 2019 3:00 AM IST

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (Photo: PTI)

Hasina's Rohingya dilemma growing, Delhi must help Dhaka resolve...

Muslim refugees many of whom have now spent more than 18 months in the camps.

20 Feb 2019 2:13 AM IST

One of the Indian mystics who celebrated divine love and syncretic devotion was Maulana Hasrat Mohani. In his own words, he was a Sufi momin (Sufi believer), ishtiraaki Muslim (secular Muslim), Aashiq-e-Rasool (lover of the holy Prophet) and at the same time, a Krishna bhakt (devotee of Krishna). (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Sufi Basant Mosaic of multiculturalism in India

For Hindus, Basant Panchami is dedicated to Saraswati who is venerated as a deity of wisdom.

19 Feb 2019 5:24 AM IST

J&K governor Satya Pal Malik (Photo: PTI)

Faulty politics, intel failures led to J&K tragedy

The government and its bailiff in Kashmir, state governor Satya Pal Malik, are yet to take any meaningful deterrent...

19 Feb 2019 5:17 AM IST

A house in which militants are suspected to have sheltered is in flames after a gunfight between militants and the security forces in South Kashmirs Pulwama district, some 10 km away from the spot of the recent suicide bombing. (Photo; AFP)

Pulwama's aftershocks in run-up to 2019 polls

The Opposition parties must not only nail the BJP for its failures on the economic and social front, but also on the ...

19 Feb 2019 12:08 AM IST

Rajini says no to polls

The two stars' yes and no to poll politics has added some intrigue already to the script.

19 Feb 2019 12:05 AM IST

A house in which militants are suspected to have sheltered is in flames after a gunfight between militants and the security forces in South Kashmirs Pulwama district, some 10 km away from the spot of the recent suicide bombing. (Photo; AFP)

National integration is hit after Pulwama

Kashmiri Muslims and Muslims of the Jammu division of the state resident in the city had their properties attacked.

19 Feb 2019 12:00 AM IST

Albert Einstein (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: The mysterious realisation of advaita

Einstein says that nature is neither solely material nor entirely spiritual.

18 Feb 2019 12:58 AM IST

There was some resentment towards such people, particularly in the rural areas that later voted overwhelmingly in favour of leaving the European Union, or Brexit , meaning the British exit from the EU.

UK in thrall over naked' protests & the return of reformed' jihadis

More than 6,000 Europeans, men and women, are supposed to have joined the Islamic State's war, many of them very young.

18 Feb 2019 12:55 AM IST