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A Rohingya refugee girl looks next to newly arrived refugees who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in Ukhiya. (Photo: AFP)

The year of the missing: Where's our humanity?

All genocidal intent in India's new policy is a clerical act of reclassification and the Rohingya go missing.

4 Jan 2018 2:58 AM IST

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (Photo: AP)

Discontent will not die out in Iran

Tehran, like everyone else, was caught on the hop, and evidently remains uncertain about the gravity of the threat it...

4 Jan 2018 2:58 AM IST

As polls loom, a critical year for democracy

The disqualification of Nawaz Sharif also opens up a small and wholly inadvertent window of opportunity for democratic...

3 Jan 2018 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will also visit their constituencies to cast their votes. (Photo: ANI)

Globally, India must play a waiting game

India's Pakistan policy of boycott and threats has faltered as Pakistan is even more defiant.

3 Jan 2018 12:05 AM IST

On Wednesday, Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha witnessed pandemonium; opposition members in the Upper House shouted shame, shame when Ananth Kumar Hegde, rose to lay the papers listed against his name. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

In politics, caste still a dominant factor

Smart publicists were rewarded handsomely for giving the BJP a worldly gloss.

2 Jan 2018 12:31 AM IST

A man is carried following a suicide attack in Kabul. (Photo: AP)

Sectarian violence a far greater threat

Pakistan has already endured so much sectarian conflict that it is largely resigned to the persistence of such violence.

2 Jan 2018 12:25 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St.Petersburg. (Photo: AP)

The real battle has just begun for Modi

Modi and Jaitley continue to doggedly defend the non-existent virtues of the measure.

1 Jan 2018 2:18 AM IST

Ousted Pak PM Nawaz Sharif waves to his supporters during a rally in Muridke, Pakistan. (Photo: AP)

The most uncertain year for Pak is here

The more Nawaz tries to force his way back into the system, the greater the resistance will be.

1 Jan 2018 2:09 AM IST

Hadiya arrives at the Cochin International airport to board a flight to Delhi. (Photo: Asian Age)

To empower women, hear what they want

In the Hadiya case, sections of society have labelled the matter a case of love jihad .

30 Nov 2017 1:37 AM IST

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe delivers his speech during a live broadcast at State House in Harare on Sunday. (Photo: AP)

In Lebanon, Zimbabwe & Egypt, a stormy time

Zimbabwe initially did make significant progress on several fronts, and its subsequent woes were not always entirely of...

30 Nov 2017 1:30 AM IST

A still from Padmavati.

The subtle idiom of prejudice

Communal poison is spread in such innocuous yet lasting ways.

29 Nov 2017 2:24 AM IST

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Will exports remain India's Achilles heel?

India has become a world leader in initiating action under anti-dumping measures.

29 Nov 2017 2:22 AM IST