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This is about keeping Pakistan: first, safe; second, strong; third, prosperous; and maybe eventually all three at the same time.

Pakistan's sweeping agenda

Always fighting to be safe, never stable enough to become strong that's goals one and two evaporating right there.

23 April 2018 12:21 AM IST

CPI(M) general-secretary Sitaram Yechury also criticised the Narendra Modi-led government for delaying the winter session of the parliament and said these were the signs that it was not willing to face the House. (Photo: PTI)

CPM's dilemma: How it should remake itself

In claiming that it is the only party that can offer an alternative policy agenda, the CPI(M) has to fully and finally...

23 April 2018 12:12 AM IST

A yagna for good luck

At present, the UN has six official languages English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Arabic.

22 April 2018 12:42 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Politics must not trump national interest

Mature democracies run as much by the letter of the law, as they do by the spirit of national interest.

22 April 2018 12:37 AM IST

People in many states are complaining of cash crunch at ATMs. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

What the cash crunch foretells

The Reserve Bank, unconvincingly, denies that there is any cash crunch & alleges the inefficiency of banks in properly...

21 April 2018 12:26 AM IST

The American Consul General was responding to a query regarding concerns over changes in the H-1B visa programme. (Representational image: file)

Work visas can help eliminate global poverty

The fact that work visas and access to labour markets work better was never mentioned.

20 April 2018 12:41 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his party will not leave any stone unturned in transforming Tripura. (Photo: AP)

After 2014 Modi wave, 2019 headed for drift

Mr Modi's incapacity to check this despite proclaimed intention is his principal failure.

20 April 2018 12:37 AM IST

Demonstrators take part in a protest in Srinagar over the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: AFP)

A restorative narrative after cascade of horror

The barrage comes while most of us are yet to get over the two ghoulish reports that have convulsed the nation.

19 April 2018 2:20 AM IST

President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview earlier this year that the alleged April attack was 100 percent fabrication used to justify a US air strike. (Photo: AP)

If Iran-Israel rift escalates, it may engulf entire region

The US and its pair of European acolytes went out of their way to avoid direct injury to Russian or Iranian forces.

19 April 2018 2:19 AM IST

The Narendra Modi slogan about protecting the girl child (Beti Bachao) was turned on its head to mean that the girl child had to be saved from the BJPs lumpen leaders. (Representational image)

Rape rage: Will BJP lose J&K govt, women's vote?

The government's prolonged silence on the two cases and the BJP's complicity in protecting the accused is likely to have...

18 April 2018 12:40 AM IST

Scientists are now planning to mimic the design of cicada wings to create anti-microbial surfaces that by virtue of their design, are resistant to bacteria. (Representational image)

Designing our way to making the world a better place

Possible applications include using this to create pathogen-proof hospital beds, bacteria-resistant paint and even...

17 April 2018 1:04 AM IST

It is important to note the country did not see the dalits protest only recently on April 2 against the dilution of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, there have been various other protest in the past few years, a clear sign of deep dissatisfaction of dalits with the BJP government. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Dalit anger boils, BJP set to face a hard time

The dalits deserted the Congress, for which they have been voting a long time, and backed the BJP in 2014.

17 April 2018 1:00 AM IST