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Security personnel stand guard on the Jammu-Srinagar-Baramulla national highway on the outskirts of Srinagar on Sunday. (Photo: H.U. Naqash)

Shutting J&K lifeline: The road to unreason

The aim was to prevent a Pulwama-type suicide attack on a convoy that had left over 40 CRPF personnel dead.

12 April 2019 12:00 AM IST

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the release BJPs manifesto for the upcoming general elections in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 8, 2019. (Photo; AP)

Polls on, but Modi still seeking a grand theme

The government's claims of muscularity on security issues were punctured by spectacular terrorist attacks in Pathankot,...

11 April 2019 5:27 AM IST

Andr©s Manuel L³pez Obrador (Photo: AP)

Can Mexico's Amlo deliver what Zapata had died for?

The movement took its name from a key figure in the revolutionary tumult that consumed Mexico in the second decade of...

11 April 2019 5:22 AM IST

Lord Thomson, the Canadian media baron who ruled Londons Fleet Street for decades, described news as the grey stuff between ads.

How wars can be turned into stories that will move markets

Wire agencies run on the principle of news flashes, keeping as close to real time of an event as possible.

10 April 2019 1:26 AM IST

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the release BJPs manifesto for the upcoming general elections in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 8, 2019. (Photo; AP)

Sankalp Patra: How real are the BJP's promises?

We are far from junking top down, paternalistic, big man rule. Regional political leaders are no different in their...

10 April 2019 1:25 AM IST

BJP senior leader LK Advani during the release of the Commemorative volumes on Chandra Shekhar and Jagannath Rao Joshi at the Parliament Library building in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Politics turning vulgar: Discourse hits new low

Advani finds this vulgarisation caused by the overlapping of party and Sangh Parivar painful only because he feels...

9 April 2019 12:28 AM IST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) said he hoped that his visit to India will strengthen cooperation between the two countries in various areas like technology, agriculture and other spheres that are changing the world. (Photo: PTI)

Across Asia, populism & democracy is on test

Modi's ministers poured scorn over the Congress manifesto, without rendering their account of the promises made five...

8 April 2019 12:08 AM IST

The MEAs comments came a day after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said he will not allow Pakistani soil to be used for terror. (Photo:AP)

Will economic adversity cost Pakistan a few good friends?

CPEC, which was until recently being projected as a game-changer for the country and the region, has lost its attraction...

8 April 2019 12:01 AM IST

Prashant Kishor (Photo: PTI)

BJP wagers Brahmin vote, friendship costs Kishor

Brahmins have been loyal BJP supporters since the Ram Mandir movement of the early Nineties.

7 April 2019 12:01 AM IST

The sources said, Election Commission would also ask law ministry to take call on its demand to extend constitutional protection to 2 election commissioners on lines of CEC. (Photo: File)

Why is EC mum in face of flagrant foul play?

The EC derives its powers from a categorical provision in the Constitution.

7 April 2019 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi further said that the government has taken several measures for improving the ease of doing business in the country. (Photo: PTI)

At this point, it seems like Advantage BJP!

With the Opposition failing to form alliances, it seems extremely difficult to defeat Modi in 2019.

6 April 2019 12:00 AM IST

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, former PM Manmohan Singh and former Union minister P. Chidambaram release the partys manifesto for the upcoming general elections in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: G.N. JHA)

Cong charter shows a newfound confidence

The Congress manifesto contains promises in three domains and is an emphatic statement of its pro-people and democratic...

5 April 2019 12:00 AM IST