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Boxer Mary Kom gets emotional after winning the final match of womens light flyweight categoty against Ukraines Hanna Okhota, 13 years her junior, at AIBA Womens World Boxing Championships in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Mary Kom emerges as India's top sports icon

Mary Kom dedicating her sixth medal to the nation was a charming and elegant way of thanking the people for their...

26 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

Central Information Commission

Dilli Ka Babu: Information gap

The process to fill up the vacancies kick-started in the middle of the year but the appointments are yet to be made.

25 Nov 2018 12:07 AM IST

Nobel literature laureate Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (Photo: AFP)

Ram temple sentiment is hate, not devotion

Today the political parties and the mass media can say things, reckless things, which they perhaps hesitated from saying...

25 Nov 2018 12:07 AM IST

The PDP, NC and Congress agenda was to protect J&K's special status'

There are apprehensions about Article 35A and other litigation regarding Article 370, says Naeem Akhtar.

25 Nov 2018 12:04 AM IST

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (Photo: PTI)

Think fresh on quotas

In the end, only the upper castes will be out of the pale. Better ways of positive discrimination need to be devised.

25 Nov 2018 12:03 AM IST

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)

Plumbing the depths of electoral politics

The cheapness of dragging in a family member who has not even the remotest connection to politics or public life is too...

25 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

Senior BJP leader L K Advani. (Photo: PTI)

No govt has the right to stifle people's voice

There is a profound misconception of the role of the people and their surrogate the media in the making of foreign...

25 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

Indian troops at the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack site. (Photo: AP)

Pak needs to get over its India obsession

The tragedy is that successive governments in Pakistan have been in complete denial about 26/11.

25 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Knowledge and education

When there is no ideal, there is no further progress or development of character.

24 Nov 2018 1:02 AM IST

Theresa Mays party failed to win a majority in parliament in Britains elections. (Photo: AP)

May's exit looms: No takers for Brexit deal

The DUP has now indicated it will not support the deal she has negotiated, leaving her without a majority in Parliament.

24 Nov 2018 1:01 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

Imran Khan has promises to keep: Will he succeed?

An unbridgeable chasm opened up between Nawaz Sharif and the military/intelligence establishment.

24 Nov 2018 1:01 AM IST

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (Photo: PTI)

Opposition braces for a tough fight in Bangla election

Recently, however, a number of developments have upped the excitement.

24 Nov 2018 1:01 AM IST