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First bullet train in India will run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, a 516 km long route. (Photo: /Representational/AFP)

Bullet trains: Far too costly for India

The Indian Railways are the country's largest public investment, employing over a million people.

28 Sept 2017 1:49 AM IST

Stanislav Petrov

How Petrov kept his cool, and saved the world...

The disaster had set off a spiral of Cold War omens, which played out elsewhere, including Afghanistan.

27 Sept 2017 3:19 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference at Nabanna (State Secretariat) in Kolkata on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

In Bengal, politics over Durga Puja will misfire

The BJP's practised strategy of polarising society on communal lines for electoral gain, however, might not work in...

27 Sept 2017 3:18 AM IST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Photo: AP)

Merkel's top priority: Restore order to EU

Merkel is often billed as the world's most powerful woman.

26 Sept 2017 1:46 AM IST

US President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. (Photo: AP)

Recalibrate Pak policy, reach out to the world

The people of India, however, will have to decide in a little over a year if Trump or Roosevelt should be the preferred...

25 Sept 2017 5:31 AM IST

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

Pak likely to see 3-way split in 2018

The PML(N) had been expected to finish first and the PTI to give it a run for its money the only question was how close...

25 Sept 2017 5:31 AM IST

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Can Gandhi inspire today's India?

1947 brought us political freedom, but the battle to free ourselves from the colonisation of our mind, is still...

24 Sept 2017 12:07 AM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh addresses at a conference on Role of Defence Public Sector Undertakings and Ordnance Factory Boards in Supporting Central Armed Forces organised by the Department of Defence Production at DRDO Bhavan in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

No Kashmir policy, still

Article 370 of India's Constitution is under challenge in the Supreme Court.

24 Sept 2017 12:06 AM IST

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu

Recapturing growth: What govt should do

Growth was bound to suffer because India depends significantly on private entrepreneurship and capital.

23 Sept 2017 6:45 AM IST

Representational image

Building bridges to the future

Cultures and civilisations are enriched not by being the same but by being different.

23 Sept 2017 6:40 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)

Gujarat stakes high: A challenge for BJP

Gujarat's political importance is greater this time because both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit...

22 Sept 2017 12:36 AM IST

Demonstrators protest outside Ryan International School as they demand action against the school in Gurgaon on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Why not rate schools on how safe they are?

If children aren't safe inside schools, what does it say about the shape of the future to come?

21 Sept 2017 12:29 AM IST