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On her 85th birthday a woman was asked: Whats the secret of your happiness? She replied, At our age, its important to keep using all our potential or it dries up. It is vital to be with people and earn ones living.

Mystic Mantra: The gentle art of charity

Anonymous benevolence directed to causes that unlike people can give nothing in return is the noblest form of...

25 April 2019 1:24 AM IST

Luo Zhaohui was delivering a keynote address on Beyond Wuhan: How Far and Fast can China-India Relations Go at an event organised by the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi. (Photo: ANI)

Why China is desperate for India to join BRI

China has got a real taste of profits from the Indian market.

25 April 2019 1:14 AM IST

The minister said that the security services believe that Christchurch attacks prompted the terrorists to hit on Easter maintaining that the attacks were being planned for quite some time. (Photo: AP)

Lanka had no Christchurch linkage, so why was it targeted?

Sri Lanka has requested, and been offered, international help in investigating the atrocities.

25 April 2019 12:14 AM IST

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur

Are RSS, BJP risking their political future?

While the RSS as an organisation may not have backed or conspired to launch terrorist strikes against Muslims.

25 April 2019 12:08 AM IST

US President Donald Trump speaks about a state of emergency from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.

US' Iran oil sanctions: Crisis looms for India

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards, that oversee almost daily provocations, may up the ante, perpetuating Sunni-Shia...

25 April 2019 12:05 AM IST

Congress President Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Why the contempt notice?

Mr Gandhi erred in construing this as the Supreme Court agreeing with his charge of malfeasance in the Rafale deal.

25 April 2019 12:01 AM IST

With social media sites being flooded with survivor stories on sexual harassment and lawyers offering to take up pro bono cases, we take a look at what comes after naming and shaming the perpetrators.

India's judiciary faces critical test of its objectivity

The truth is that the affidavit has a lot of detail. It also has references to station house officers and transcripts of...

24 April 2019 1:18 AM IST

Noted rationalist Narendra Dabholkar (Photo: PTI)

Does putting a hex or curse work? Indians' belief in them is worrying

Patwardhan has pegged his narrative to the cold-blooded murders of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M.M. Kalburgi,...

24 April 2019 1:18 AM IST

Brexit: Nothing changed; or everything changed?

On March 29, 2017 his replacement, Prime Minister Theresa May, gave formal notice to the EU of the UK's intention to...

24 April 2019 1:18 AM IST

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur

Pragya Thakur symbol of New (Hindu) India?

It is the capital of Madhya Pradesh and she has been pitted against Digvijay Singh, a former chief minister of the state...

24 April 2019 1:18 AM IST

Volodymyr Zelenskiy (Photo:AP)

Life imitates art in Ukraine

Zelenskiy may draw heart from the fact that he has some experience in at least playing a fictitious President on...

24 April 2019 1:17 AM IST

Top industry leaders hedge their poll bets

Ambani has been widely seen as being a firm backer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the past five years.

24 April 2019 1:17 AM IST