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Chinese President Xi Jinping

Why Xi is unwise to scrap maps

China has land borders with 14 countries and maritime borders with at least nine other countries.

7 July 2019 12:11 AM IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with her team before presenting the budget. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Nirmala's Budget fullof political flourishes

The Budget speech was a political declamation, but there were strong signs of the government's desperate bid to ...

6 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Donald Trump ordered the creation of a sixth branch. (Photo: Pixabay)

If Trump starts a global war, is the world ready for the fallout?

Iran knows the US better than Trump knows Iran.

6 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

What does the Dalai Lama's lapse' teach us about sexism?

Women, after all, are terribly used to good' men saying sexist things and having these ascribed to dated views.

5 July 2019 12:03 AM IST

Security agencies apprehend trouble in certain pockets of the state as verification of family trees brought to light that suspected foreigners are trying to get their names enrolled in the NRC.

Assam: The race for a place in citizens' list

The publication of the draft list that saw the names of over four million applicants missing triggered a whole lot of...

5 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

While Mr Anand Singhs resignation letter Jolt to Congress in Karnataka as 2 MLAs resign arrived with riders scrap the controversial decision to sell 3, 667 acres land to JSW Steel in ore-rich Ballari district and carve a separate district out of Vijayanagar.

Oppn parties unable to reinvent themselves

In India, a number of political parties, it seems, will be even more shortlived. Most of them, unfortunately, are in the...

4 July 2019 12:02 AM IST

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan visits the Prophets Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia (Photo: AP)

Horse-trading, witch-hunts won't stabilise Imran's govt

Khan's Wasim Akram-plus seems to have finally blossomed into a fine craftsman engineering defections within the...

4 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Pakista PM Imran Khan (Photo; AFP)

PM move, Opposition ideas vacuous; economic crisis likely to deepen

A National Development Council has also been set up, whose stated functions overlap with those of a number of existing...

3 July 2019 1:02 AM IST

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee

Clutching at straws in Bengal as BJP on rise

The Trinamul Congress grew and grew, with people who joined in droves.

3 July 2019 1:02 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Checks and balances: Hubris for Modi, BJP

Modi is not the first person to express his irritation with the political numbers in the Rajya Sabha.

2 July 2019 3:03 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Donald Trump and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe share a fist bump during their meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. (Photo: AP)

Match interests with pull from China, Russia, US

The US threatened to take the matter before UN Security Council, where China feared questioning by members in open...

1 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Are dignity and empowerment above economics and security?

The recent Quetta Literary Festival (QLF) reflected this growing anxiety among the intelligentsia and educated youth of...

1 July 2019 12:00 AM IST