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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

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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

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. (Photo: AP)

No end to the despair of Palestinians

Whether many Gazans will vote for Fatah, if the fresh elections proposed by Hamas go ahead, remains to be seen.

21 Sept 2017 12:29 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo: AP)

China's realpolitik is losing its sheen

This no-holds-barred approach of China won it immediate gratification in terms of low-hanging fruits in an increasingly...

20 Sept 2017 2:39 AM IST

Carnatic music is boring, singers are always slapping away the tala; not interesting.

Salt, pepper and the Beatles

For keen ears, music is not a performance. It's a way of perceiving the world.

20 Sept 2017 2:39 AM IST

Congress Vice President, Rahul Gandhi at Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley, California. (Photo: PTI)

Is there a change in the nation's mood?

The BJP president soon recovered his poise and told the media in Jharkhand that he wouldn't respond to Rahul Gandhi's...

19 Sept 2017 12:48 AM IST

After the primary investigation, the police suspected the Blue Whale Game of being the reason behind Boras suicide. (Photo: File)

Hunting the whale

It is the emotionally vulnerable and socially isolated who are most at risk, and these are the people the game targets.

19 Sept 2017 12:38 AM IST

This file picture shows Myanmars Aung San Suu Kyi delivering her Nobel speech during the Nobel ceremony in Oslo. (Photo: AFP)

Suu Kyi must act fast on Rohingyas' rights

Modern communication and the relative ease of travel have made the refugee crisis a worldwide phenomenon.

18 Sept 2017 12:12 AM IST

Deposed Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif waves to his supporters during a rally in Muridke, Pakistan, on August 12. (Photo: AP)

As Nawaz goes, and keeps quiet, the system' too shuts up

Nawaz with his base in Punjab and mind set on peace with India is a policy-politics threat that would always have to be...

18 Sept 2017 12:11 AM IST