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45-year-old UP man was lynched by mob in Hapurs Pilakhuwa village on Monday. (Photo: Screengrab)

Politics & lynching

Violence does not erupt by itself. It erupts only after the atmosphere has been fouled by hate speech.

19 Aug 2018 1:19 AM IST

BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain

'Vajpayeeji used to say the nation is bigger than the organisation'

Youngest Cabinet minister post-Independence, and the credit goes to Vajpayeeji, says Shahnawaz Hussain.

19 Aug 2018 1:17 AM IST

Central Information Commission

Dilli Ka Babu: CIC sends SOS to the PMO

According to sources, the panel has now escalated the issue to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), indicating the...

19 Aug 2018 1:16 AM IST

A file photograph of Atal Behari Vajpayee at the PMO.

Remembering two famous men who left us

Naipaul was disliked by almost everyone in India who had read his book (not many have) or were familiar with what he...

19 Aug 2018 1:15 AM IST

People push social activist Swami Agnivesh while he was on the way to pay tribute to former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg in New Delhi on Friday. Agnivesh was reportedly assaulted later. (Photo: PTI)

Delhi fails to check violence

Videos of the attackers are available in both cases, and also their messages of self-congratulation.

19 Aug 2018 1:15 AM IST

An elderly woman is rescued in a cooking utensil after her home was flooded in Thrissur, Kerala. (Photo: File)

Kerala: Harsh lessons in dam management

The timing of the opening of dams is being questioned in Kerala where shutters of 35 of 39 dams were open at around the...

19 Aug 2018 1:15 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Act we must!

Memories are related to the world of sense objects, of form, smell, touch, taste and sound.

18 Aug 2018 4:18 AM IST

Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

'Burqa jokes' become a pawn in the great game of 'Politopoly'

What could be characterised, absorbed and dismissed as prankish provocation of an idiosyncratic satirist, was not in...

18 Aug 2018 4:18 AM IST

A file photo of Atal Behari Vajpayee with US President Bill Clinton

A visionary who reshaped India's global role

Vajpayee wanted to allay Pakistani fears that India, particularly his own party, the BJP, wanted to undo the Partition...

18 Aug 2018 1:22 AM IST

A file photograph of Atal Behari Vajpayee at the PMO.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A man of few words who left millions spellbound

The poet in Atalji often made him reclusive, and prone to staccato sentences which he left to the intelligence of the...

18 Aug 2018 1:14 AM IST

Cricket loses a leader

Ajit rise to the captaincy came in controversial circumstances, with the casting vote of then chairman of selectors...

18 Aug 2018 12:37 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.

Falling rupee will burn a hole in our pockets

There are hopes in some quarters that the Reserve Bank of India would intervene to stop the rupee's slide.

18 Aug 2018 12:36 AM IST