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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

A comedy of ousters in politics of Pakistan

What's the point to either grand or tawdry minus-Nawaz, -Shahbaz, -Zardari, -whoever schemes if they don't actually end...

12 Nov 2018 12:01 AM IST

Noting that Al-Qaeda still maintains a presence in South Asia, the UN report said the terror group adapts to the local environment, trying to embed itself into local struggles and communities and is closely allied with the Taliban. (Representational Image | AFP)

Delhi shouldn't meddle in Kabul power games

The Taliban did not have anything to do with the hijacking itself, but tried to show that they were playing neutral...

12 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

BJP President Amit Shah speaks at a press conference in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Manifestoes hit a new low in Assembly polls

In Chhattisgarh, the manifesto of the challenger Congress Party promises farm loan waivers and rice at Rs 1 per kilo.

12 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: No extension for Hasmukh Adhia?

The next bureaucrat in line to be designated the finance secretary is expenditure secretary Ajay Narayan Jha, a...

11 Nov 2018 12:21 AM IST

Manoj Tiwari , BJP Delhi president and Lok Sabha member (Photo: G.N. Jha)

In the coming days, Ram bhakts will get some good news from Modi govt'

The BJP and its leadership is committed to the noble cause to build a grand temple in Ayodhya, says Manoj Tiwari.

11 Nov 2018 12:13 AM IST

The senior Trump administration official said the United States will have a process to recognize same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats from countries where same-sex marriage is not legal, but which recognize American domestic partners. (Representational Image)

Free speech is critical to a nation's greatness

In India we have traditionally had a lot of freedom when it comes to expression about the nature of God and of reality.

11 Nov 2018 12:06 AM IST

Banning of letters of undertaking (LoUs) and letters of comfort (LoCs) by the RBI as trade finance instruments is likely to reduce financial flexibility of importers, a Fitch group company said on Wednesday.

India's NBFCs need funds

Most NBFCs are facing a drought-like situation as far as funding is concerned.

11 Nov 2018 12:03 AM IST

In response to the question about the law/statute which gives R&AW the powers/authority to discharge its functions/mandate efficaciously and efficiently, the government did not try and hide behind any obfuscation but candidly admitted, There is no separate/specific statute governing the functions/mandate of the R&AW .

Intelligence agencies need a legal base

Unfortunately, no such law has ever been enacted by successive governments since the commencement of the Constitution.

11 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

Aligarh Muslim University. (Photo: File)

Setback for freedom of academia

The University Grants Commission seems not to have the faintest conception of academic freedom.

11 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

Maithripala Sirisena said he had ordered Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera to revoke his decision last week to overturn the 1979 law prohibiting the sale of any type of alcohol to women. (Photo: AP)

Sri Lanka President's actions undemocratic

The saddest development in this unseemly power struggle is how the democratic institution of Parliament has been...

11 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

The greatest impact of overemphasis on organised religion has been felt by spiritualism which is actually the soul of religion. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Lalla Arifa - A Sufi-Shaivite lady

At the same time, Lalla's poetry came crashing down on the parasitic forms of ritualism and false religiosity.

10 Nov 2018 7:11 AM IST

So also, women who profess that they are men trapped in womens bodies would not have to undergo plastic surgery to acquire mock penises.

I am whatever I think I am'

My first stage play, called Mama Dragon, was commissioned by a company which named itself the Black Co-op Theatre.

10 Nov 2018 7:06 AM IST