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Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani (Photo: AP)

Terror, rivalry of key powers are hurdles to Afghan peace

US withdrawal will leave the Taliban as the main organised force in the country.

18 Feb 2019 12:32 AM IST

President Donald Trump speaks before signing a USD 716 billion defense policy bill named for Senator John McCain Monday, in Fort Drum, New York on Monday. (Photo: AP)

Trump's wall divides America

Trump's declaration of an emergency, when he will try and order $5 billion-plus funds for his pet wall, will face...

18 Feb 2019 12:30 AM IST

NCP President Sharad Pawar has told the party not to consider his name as he will not be a candidate. (Photo: ANI)

Oppn parties appear to move forward on unity

Mamata was candid enough to say that in states the allies may fight polls against one another in view of the political...

18 Feb 2019 12:27 AM IST

With improved compliance, the GSTs implementation will streamline further

With improved compliance, the GST's implementation will streamline...

the GST Council has taken over taxation issues to help the Niti Aayog, says NK Singh.

17 Feb 2019 7:35 AM IST

Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar

Dilli Ka Babu: Mixed-up confusion!

The report requires the NSC's approval after which the NSSO is supposed to make it public.

17 Feb 2019 7:26 AM IST

Masood Azhar is accused of several deadly terrorist attacks in India, including one on the Uri military base in Jammu and Kashmir in 2016, in which 17 security personnel were killed. (Photo: AP)

India must calibrate response to Jaish

The suicide bombing is not preferred by LeT because in its particular belief of Islam, which is called Salafi, suicide...

17 Feb 2019 1:09 AM IST

A scene of the spot after militants attacked a CRPF convoy in Goripora area of Awantipora town in Pulwama district of J&K on Thursday. At least 44 CRPF jawans were killed in the attack. (Photo: PTI)

The lingering aftermath of our finest hour in 1971

The Pakistani deep state believes that over a period of four decades this strategy has paid them rich dividends.

17 Feb 2019 1:04 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

Stop misusing transfers to rein in civil & police officers

Decisions taken at a political level in government are implemented without question at the operational level.

17 Feb 2019 12:58 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flags off Vande Bharat Express, Indias first semi-high speed train at New Delhi railway station on Friday. The train has been able to attain a maximum speed of 130 kmph during its inaugural run between Delhi and Varanasi, officials said. (Photo: Asian Age)

Vande Bharat Exp lessons

The train's manufacturing cost is 40 per cent less than if imported from Europe.

17 Feb 2019 12:46 AM IST

Union home minister Rajnath Singh shoulders the coffin of a slain CRPF jawan in Budgam on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

In the face of terror, avoid partisanship

In Srinagar, his remaining two observations betray a lack of familiarity with the ground realities.

17 Feb 2019 12:34 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: Spirituality - Not a moral code

There was a yogi sitting in the forest, absolutely blissful, but if people came anywhere near him, he threw stones at...

16 Feb 2019 12:15 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.

Brexit's unicorns' and the idiocies, fantasies, myths they spawn

The British satirical press has played the entertaining game of counting unicorns or mentions of them in Parliament.

16 Feb 2019 12:12 AM IST