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PM Narendra Modi and Amit shah (Photo: File/PTI)

Hopes, fears dominate the new 2019 narrative

The Narendra Modi-led BJP is depicting a nightmare that would be India's fate if an unstable, non-ideological coalition...

11 Jan 2019 12:10 AM IST

Minister of state for information and broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore launched this sharing facility of AIR News with private FM broadcasters on Tuesday.

AIR news on FM a win-win

This is a win-win situation for both the government and private FM broadcasters.

11 Jan 2019 12:08 AM IST

Army chief General Bipin Rawat addressed his annual press briefing in Delhi. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Army Chief's remarks on Taliban confusing

It's clear by now that India has come around to the position of being non-formulaic on talks with the Taliban.

11 Jan 2019 12:05 AM IST

Nelson Mandela (Photo: AP)

Mystic Mantra: Protect India's many mother tongues

When compared to rich countries like the UK, Germany, France or Spain, India appears poor in economic terms.

10 Jan 2019 6:58 AM IST

Google said it would not renew a contract to help the US military analyse aerial drone imagery when it expires, as the company sought to defuse internal uproar over the deal.

Spurt in snooping likely to make govt hostage to private interests

Unlike the tapping of landline phones or opening letters sent by post, the new snooping methods involve not-so-simple...

10 Jan 2019 6:55 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Halt toxic discourse... Our politics is at its nadir!

It appears that India's political leaders have lapped up, quite indiscriminatingly, two Chinese ideas.

10 Jan 2019 12:15 AM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said PM Modi has achieved huge success in taking the fight against terrorism on international forum. (Photo: PTI | File)

The citizenship soup is stewing in Assam

AASU is not amused at the timing of the Union Cabinet's move to set up the committee to look into Clause 6 of the Assam...

10 Jan 2019 12:10 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election campaign rally in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Quotas great. Where are jobs?

Jobs can be created only through growth, but growth has been slowing down under his watch.

10 Jan 2019 12:02 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: PTI)

SC order over CBI chief blow to govt

What the judgment appears to underline is that the govt had dealt with the CBI as an institution in a cavalier fashion...

10 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

Sabarimala Temple

The depths of patriarchal depravity

It is by no means only men, though, who construe menstruation as unclean , nor is the phenomenon restricted to Hindu...

10 Jan 2019 12:00 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: Are superstitions real?

It simply depends on how sensibly, intelligently, and with how much awareness you walk and look at life around you.

9 Jan 2019 5:09 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in New Delhi (Photo: PTI)

India-Japan ties will get closer if civil society groups are involved

Abe realises the importance of stronger ties with India as the key to maintain the balance of power in Asia.

9 Jan 2019 5:06 AM IST