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Pakistan is a key player in the talks between the Taliban and the US in an effort to end the war in Afghanistan and allow withdrawal of American troops. (Photo: AFP / File)

Pak needs to see Taliban as a challenge, not an asset

Finding a sound strategy to deal with this conflict should be at the centre of Pakistan's priorities.

4 Oct 2019 12:04 AM IST

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar takes a survey of the flood-hit areas, in Patna, Friday. (Photo: PTI)

The floods in Bihar: The fault is not in our stars!

Patna has been among the worst hit but the arc of suffering goes far beyond.

3 Oct 2019 1:21 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)

Why MBS got off lightly after brutal murder of Khashoggi

Mohammed bin Salman, meanwhile, continues to warn the West that if Iran is not restrained, oil prices could go through...

3 Oct 2019 1:17 AM IST

Mahatma Gandhi believed in the efficacy of pitching the soul force called satyagraha against the brute force of the oppressor and in effect converting the oppressor to the right and moral point.

A man who gave India a new idea about itself

Reverence is big business on which gurus and godmen, mahants and mantris thrive.

2 Oct 2019 1:21 AM IST

US economist Richard Thaler on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Economics. (Photo: AP)

Big business is using tech to learn about our behaviour

Thaler's work was instrumental in exploring how public policy can be leveraged to manipulate human behaviour for better...

1 Oct 2019 2:32 AM IST

Officially, leader of both the parties have been maintaining that the BJP and the Sena will contest the polls together. (Photo: File)

No real contest likely in Maharashtra, Haryana

The question is will there be any contest even between the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance and the Congress-NCP alliance?

1 Oct 2019 2:30 AM IST

ew have made the connection between the Saudi onslaught on Yemen, and the massive damage inflicted on its oil-processing facilities.

Did brutality by Saudis on Yemenis lead to oil attacks?

Iran has denied any involvement in the attack, but it is hardly likely to accept responsibility.

30 Sept 2019 6:29 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday. (Photo: AP)

Modi success at UN, but larger questions remain

Modi has prioritised climate change action since the Paris Climate Accord.

30 Sept 2019 6:28 AM IST

The willing participation of the bureaucracy in the Nazi criminal enterprise reached a nadir at the Wannsee Conference on January 24, 1942. In a villa in south Berlin over a sumptuous two-hour lunch laced with fine wines, Nazi apparatchiks, aided by what in the Indian parlance would be joint secretary-level officers drawn from across the German bureaucratic space, firmed up plans for the final solution to the Jewish question. The conference was the equivalent of an inter-ministerial consultation in the Indian context. (Photo:Pixabay)

Bureaucracy and the fascists

When the Nazis seized control in 1933, this permanent establishment formed the core of the German state.

29 Sept 2019 7:18 AM IST

The RSS wants to have Manusmriti as the constitution of the country. (Photo: PTI)

Is Constitution 'anti-Hindu' or the RSS anti-Indian?

The RSS has now chosen to speak through its outfit, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

29 Sept 2019 12:00 AM IST

US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) slammed Russia, Syria and Iran for killing many innocent civilians. (Photo:AP)

Afghanistan might be Trump's biggest folly

Saleh, in particular, has been a longtime foe of the Taliban, opposing former President Karzai's peace outreach to the...

28 Sept 2019 12:00 AM IST

Replying to a debate on the amendment, Home Minister Amit Shah said a four-level scrutiny has been provided in the amendment and no human rights will be violated. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

How will one card solve any of India's problems?

The BJP may have been right when it laid down the law one man-one post.

27 Sept 2019 1:46 AM IST