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Prime Minister Narendra Modi further said that the government has taken several measures for improving the ease of doing business in the country. (Photo: PTI)

In a healthy democracy, dissent is not treason!

It would be trite to say that the persons aggrieved have remedies in suits for libel and prosecutions for defamation.

24 March 2019 12:10 AM IST

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)

EC must encourage people to contest polls

Candidates are also disqualified if they have been convicted for some specific offences that are listed.

24 March 2019 12:06 AM IST

The delegation requested Indian High Commissioner to the UK to convey their concerns to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee. (Photo: File)

Left loses coalition game

The traditional Left thus has to be in the fray independently in the upcoming Parliament polls.

24 March 2019 12:02 AM IST

Two Pakistani troopers were killed by the Indian Army in response to ceasefire violations along the LoC in Tangdhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir. (Representational Image | PTI)

Accountability a must for armed forces

The dividing line between military transparency vis-a-vis military secrecy has been much debated.

24 March 2019 12:02 AM IST

Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar (Photo: AFP)

Talks with Pakistan a weapon, use it wisely

The recent veto by China on the UN's banning of Masood Azhar, and our reaction to it, presents a good example of what is...

24 March 2019 12:00 AM IST

World is more divided than before though its not just because of social media. People were already divided; but all of this is getting exaggerated by social media.

Keep mighty in check, let the web stay free

What the social media will be unable to guarantee is the filtering of content that is clearly fake news or planted to...

24 March 2019 12:00 AM IST

Union Minister Arun Jaitley. (Photo:ANI)

Of evergreen Arun and BJP's script for turncoats

Jaitley is playing a key role in the preparations for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls and is also busy unsettling the...

24 March 2019 12:00 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: Id-e-Gulabi - A Sufi celebration of colours

This syncretic culture in India was actually inspired by the holiest Sufi saint of Delhi, Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia and...

23 March 2019 6:29 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)

Countdown is on May the best chowkidar win!

A chowkidar's primary role is to guard and protect those who have hired him.

23 March 2019 12:15 AM IST

In India, opinion polls start pouring down a couple of months prior to the elections, projections keep taking different shapes and colours till the exit polls.

Similar Dravidian manifestos

Both parties want river inter-linking as a solution to an eternally water-starved region with no major rivers...

23 March 2019 12:15 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)

Theresa falls into Blunderland, as Mad Hatters of Brussels make hay

British democracy will certainly outlast Ms May and the foolish maze she has made of Brexit.

23 March 2019 12:05 AM IST

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

Precision targeting' is the BJP's war strategy

The other big news is Amit Shah choosing to contest from Gandhinagar, the constituency of party patriarch L.K. Advani.

23 March 2019 12:00 AM IST