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Ibrahim Mohammed Solih (Photo: AFP)

Change in Maldives: India must do its bit

The turnout as officially announced by the Maldives election body tells it own story.

25 Sept 2018 12:00 AM IST

Experts say that the effect of feeling lonely is as devastating as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Loneliness is so pervasive in todays world that doctors call it the loneliness epidemic .

Mystic Mantra: How to cure loneliness

It is an irony that in this overpopulated world people feel they have no connection with anybody.

24 Sept 2018 1:32 AM IST

Congress president Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI/File)

Rahul Gandhi must forge a different Congress

However, the overall advantage may still be presumed to lie with the ruling government as it has the state machinery at...

24 Sept 2018 1:30 AM IST

A five-judge Supreme Court Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar will on Tuesday pronounce a verdict on pleas challenging the validity of triple talaq (divorce) in the Muslim community. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Outlawing triple talaq will not help women

An incarcerated husband will not be in a position to pay maintenance.

24 Sept 2018 1:29 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

Imran Khan's 3 challenges

Three big things and all spelling some kind of danger for the PTI.

24 Sept 2018 1:26 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan

All sides lose out as India-Pak talks bid fail

While India alleged that it only now saw Imran Khan's real faceâ€, he retorted with the barb that small men occupying...

24 Sept 2018 1:25 AM IST

Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft (Photo: Youtube screengrab)

No escaping Rafale deal scrutiny

This was explosive and Congress president Rahul Gandhi's attack on the government and the PM grew sharper.

24 Sept 2018 1:19 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi launches Ayushman Bharat scheme in Ranchi. (Photo: PTI )

Ayushman Bharat a great idea

The scheme may cover about 40 per cent of the population to begin with.

24 Sept 2018 1:16 AM IST

B.V.R. Subrahmanyam (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: More power to J&K babus

Babu watchers say that this development is due to B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, the current chief secretary of the state.

23 Sept 2018 2:46 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan. (Photo: AP)

Imran's mistakes perpetuate old narrative

The second sign of sovereign intransigence and policy-perpetuity were in the usual handling of the India-Pakistan...

23 Sept 2018 2:43 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo: MEA | Twitter)

We need more women in politics

Certainly the lack of adequate representation of women in politics is not because of a lack of talent.

23 Sept 2018 2:41 AM IST

Union Road Transport and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari. (Photo: PTI)

A visible change in media-BJP interactions

Kathmandu is convinced that the Modi government is undermining its Prime Minister K.P. Oli as it suspects him to be...

23 Sept 2018 2:36 AM IST