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Supreme Court of India (Photo: PTI)

Why constitutional morality' is vital, and matters to us all

Lawyers and judges have in the past weighed into the discussion on constitutional morality with great vigour.

4 Oct 2018 6:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi poses for photos as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, science & environment minister Harsh Vardhan and UN Environment Programme executive director Erik Solheim look on after Mr Modi received the UNs highest environmental honour Champions of The Earth Award at a ceremony in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

A clean environment for human empowerment

Mahatma Gandhi wrote extensively on the environment and even practised a lifestyle where compassion towards the...

4 Oct 2018 6:17 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: AP)

Putin in India: Test of a strategic partnership

Russia is under pressure from Western actions seeking to constrain its international political and economic activity.

4 Oct 2018 12:09 AM IST

In this June 1, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, as he heads to Camp David for the weekend. Lawyers for President Donald Trump and Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant who sued the president for saying her sexual misconduct claims were lies, are scheduled to be in court Tuesday, June 5, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Hysteria over Kavanaugh: US Prez firm on SC rightward shift

It's hardly a state secret, of course, that the US SC features a bench broadly divided between conservatives and...

4 Oct 2018 12:06 AM IST

The court on Monday refused to extend activist Gautam Navlakhas house arrest by two more days.

Set other 4 activists free too

Navlakha and the four others charged under UAPA will, of course, have to present their case in court once the police...

4 Oct 2018 12:03 AM IST

Mob protest damages: SC verdict is welcome

The cinema owners were left to deal with repairs and there was no way to fix responsibility for demonstrators turning...

4 Oct 2018 12:00 AM IST

When you are confronted with a problem, you see only the problem and bother over it endlessly, which only makes the situation more tragic.(Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Our blessings always outnumber problems

One technique, which helps a lot, is taking a piece of paper and making two columns: problems and blessings

3 Oct 2018 1:43 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

The scenario in Syria gets more dangerous

The bringing down of the Russian aircraft has created fresh uncertainties in the complex Syrian scenario.

3 Oct 2018 1:36 AM IST

The argument put forward by the leaders of the BJP and others was that India did not depend on exports for its economic growth, and that the huge domestic market and the consumption it entailed was good enough to keep the economy in shape and the global developments were marginal. (Representational image)

India's ostrich club and the global recession

The moral of the market economy is that small disasters trigger bigger ones, potentially.

3 Oct 2018 1:31 AM IST

The shares of IL&FS Engineering soared 20 per cent while that of IL&FS Transportation and IL&FS Investment Managers surged 19.50 per cent and 10 per cent respectively.

Hopes rise for IL&FS revival

The appointment of a new board of well-known names, including a top banker, raises hopes for the revival of IL&FS.

3 Oct 2018 1:23 AM IST

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

To honour Bapu, uplift the poorest of our poor

Not for nothing was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi called the Mahatma in his own lifetime.

3 Oct 2018 1:21 AM IST

Written by Kausik Bandyopadhyay, the book comments on the cricketing brawn and brain of the Mahatma (Photo: AP)

Let's unite to build the India of Bapu's dreams

Today we mark the beginning of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of our beloved Bapu.

2 Oct 2018 5:58 AM IST