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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

Under the proposed law, instant triple talaq in any form will be illegal and void, be it through a pronouncement by the husband, or in writing, by email, SMS or on WhatsApp.

Send talaq bill to panel for sustainable reform

The intent is thus clearly to make triple talaq a criminal offence with imprisonment up to three years in addition to a...

30 Jun 2019 12:15 AM IST

Congress president Rahul Gandhi at Parliament House on Wednesday. (Photo: Pritam bandyopadhyay)

Cong dithering, bickering give BJP upper hand in various states

Congress insiders have been complaining that the attitude of senior party leaders remains unchanged and they are as...

30 Jun 2019 12:12 AM IST

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Sermons on faith pose challenge for Modi 2.0

Modi 2.0 has, however, taken a tough line against any critical references to India on the issue of religious rights and...

29 Jun 2019 12:04 AM IST

Virat Kohli and Co had sported the camouflage caps against Australia in Ranchi, after Pulwama terrorist attack in which 40 CRPF jawans had lost their lives. (Photo: AFP)

Cricket offers 3 nations a shot at truth, reconciliation

For most Pakistanis, it scarcely matters who we have to get past to keep the victory march alive.

29 Jun 2019 12:00 AM IST

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Saturday began a statewide over actue water crisis issue. (Photo: File)

A world without water: Scary future lies ahead

Chennai's water crisis is front-page news; friends' FB posts describe in grim detail what is it is like to go without...

28 Jun 2019 12:30 AM IST