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This is about keeping Pakistan: first, safe; second, strong; third, prosperous; and maybe eventually all three at the same time.

Pakistan's sweeping agenda

Always fighting to be safe, never stable enough to become strong that's goals one and two evaporating right there.

23 April 2018 12:21 AM IST

CPI(M) general-secretary Sitaram Yechury also criticised the Narendra Modi-led government for delaying the winter session of the parliament and said these were the signs that it was not willing to face the House. (Photo: PTI)

CPM's dilemma: How it should remake itself

In claiming that it is the only party that can offer an alternative policy agenda, the CPI(M) has to fully and finally...

23 April 2018 12:12 AM IST

Sinha's departure exposes BJP

The party, which Mr Sinha left on Saturday after the association of a quarter century, is not the party he had joined.

23 April 2018 12:11 AM IST

Unless the states act to bring investigation and trial to a close within four months of a rape incident as is envisaged now, the toughest laws on the statute books are unlikely to be deterrent enough to stop these barbaric crimes. (Representational image)

Will death penalty deter child rapists?

The planned national registry of sex offenders is a good initiative though as it could help in outing the names of...

23 April 2018 12:11 AM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti during a meeting in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

There seems to be no end to Kashmiri's suffering

This year marks 30 years of militancy in Kashmir. No end is in sight to the people's sufferings but they will never...

22 April 2018 6:02 AM IST

H.D. Deve Gowda

I don't see any Modi tsunami... both Cong and NDA have failed'

On Karnataka pivots the BJP's hope of launching the southern leg of its Congress-Mukt Bharat operation.

22 April 2018 1:36 AM IST

CBDT Chief Sushil Chandra. (Photo: PTI)

Dilli Ka Babu: Future Moves

Mr Roy has also claimed that memorial sent to President had to be referred to the state government as per the rules.

22 April 2018 1:04 AM IST

In Sri Lanka, the mostly Buddhist Sinhala speakers fought Lankas Tamils over religion and language. In India we wonder how Buddhists and Hindus can hate each other but that is the nature of majoritarianism. (Representational image)

Majoritarianism is never inclusive

The first few decades of Congress rule hid the fact that we Indians are also like our brothers in Lanka, Bangladesh and...

22 April 2018 12:55 AM IST

A yagna for good luck

At present, the UN has six official languages English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Arabic.

22 April 2018 12:42 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Politics must not trump national interest

Mature democracies run as much by the letter of the law, as they do by the spirit of national interest.

22 April 2018 12:37 AM IST

Gujarat High Court on Friday acquitted former BJP Maya Kodnani in the 2002 Narodia Patiya case. (Photo: PTI | File)

Kodnani not guilty

. Suffice it to say that the wheels of justice have rolled on once again, but ever so slowly in a 2002 case.

22 April 2018 12:29 AM IST

CJI Dipak Misra

Move to impeach CJI seems misguided

Constitutional provisions exist to impeach the CJI and a procedure is laid down for it.

22 April 2018 12:24 AM IST