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The revivalist RSS has backed the clergy although the Supreme Court has permitted all women to enter the shrine as equal citizens. (Representational image)

Secular courts should not tinker with matters of faith

What he prescribed, instead, for the dalits was what he might have reasoned with women of childbearing age in Kerala to...

24 Oct 2018 2:22 AM IST

The legal argument about Article 21 applying equally to the manufacturers of firecrackers as to the billion plus people who are affected by air pollution fails when taking into account the cause and effect. (Representational image)

Diwali: Hard to enforce rules

A million people are said to be dying prematurely every year from the poor air we breathe in urban India.

24 Oct 2018 2:09 AM IST

Forcing caged parrot to sing master's tune

In 2013, the Supreme Court had called it a caged parrot . This basically meant being its political master's voice.

24 Oct 2018 2:07 AM IST

India had received two M-777 ultra-light howitzers in May, each worth around Rs 35 crore, after a gap of 30 years since the Bofors scandal broke out, and the accident took place in one of them. (Photo: File/Representational)

Who got the Bofors money?

The GHN45 howitzers were indeed very good, and with base-bleed shells, had the longest reach of all howitzers available...

23 Oct 2018 12:20 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Your daily life is your temple

The solace can truly be found in the enlightened word of mystics.

23 Oct 2018 12:16 AM IST

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul more than two weeks ago, amid persistent reports he was killed inside. (Photo: AFP)

India can't ignore Saudi ethics, Jamal's killing

No healthy, productive and rewarding foreign policy can be founded on expedient pacts that are so utterly devoid of...

23 Oct 2018 12:03 AM IST

The RBI has asked Axis Banks board to re-consider the decision to re-appoint Shikha Sharma as its MD and CEO for a fourth term.

RBI should be autonomous

The government also had its differences with RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and that was why, it is said, he was not given...

23 Oct 2018 12:03 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with INA veteran Lalti Ram during a flag hoisting ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the Azad Hind government at Red Fort in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Playing politics with history is a low art

Giants like Patel and Bose need no new statues and commemoration volumes for the nation to remember them, as Modi may...

23 Oct 2018 12:00 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Kashmiri mysticism

Rishi-Sufis focused not only on spiritual pursuits but also social, economic and cultural development of the Kashmir...

22 Oct 2018 6:02 AM IST

The winning translator will receive 1,000 pounds and a selection of Harvill Secker books.

Profit moves influencers' of our time

The Bible tells us that many were influenced and converted to follow Jesus through watching miracles such as the raising...

22 Oct 2018 6:02 AM IST

Speaking at the 7th Meeting of Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA) at Ashgabat, MoS External Affairs MJ Akbar accused Pakistan of committing crime against the Afghan people by blocking normal access between India and Afghanistan. (Photo: PTI/File)

Silence and mayhem go together in India

There may be murmurs of rebellion but the people do not rise in revolt because too much force is ranged on the other...

22 Oct 2018 6:01 AM IST

The election commission conducts FLC of new machines followed by rehearsals of EVMs and voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPATs) before the polling day in front of representatives from registered parties.

A strange democracy for J&K

The present dispensation has badly botched the political and security situation in Kashmir.

22 Oct 2018 6:01 AM IST