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Union home minister Amit Shah (Photo: PTI)

NRC volte-face raises spectre of turbulence

The issues involved in the discussion so far also throw up conceptual wrongheadedness about mixing up citizenship with...

22 Nov 2019 2:20 AM IST

US President Donald Trump has said that he is considering signing the first phase of the long-awaited trade deal with China in Iowa. (Photo: File)

US sets a bad example

It's also a deeper message to American Jews, whose votes Mr Trump needs as he seeks re-election next year.

21 Nov 2019 2:19 AM IST

Farooq Abdullah

Why can't Farooq, PC attend Winter Session?

Their imprisonment is a sorry reflection on the working of our democracy.

21 Nov 2019 2:18 AM IST

Addressing the 250th session of the Upper House of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said Rajya Sabha is the soul of Indias federal structure. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

Plain sailing for govt in House

The government faced no trouble on any count, but the alarm is growing over the economy.

20 Nov 2019 2:24 AM IST

Hundreds of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students in Delhi were stopped near campus soon after they began marching towards the Parliament on Monday. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

Govt backlash intensifies against the idea of JNU

JNU is India's foremost university in terms of the quality of its knowledge production.

20 Nov 2019 2:19 AM IST

Ayodhya: SC review advisable

The court accepts the Babri Masjid stood for 464 years until its 1992 demolition by lawless mobs led by top BJP and VHP...

19 Nov 2019 12:07 AM IST

Sri Lankan President-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Photo: AP)

Sri Lanka comes full circle with Gota win

China's rising heft, both militarily and diplomatically is not easily countered. By Delhi or Colombo.

19 Nov 2019 12:00 AM IST

India is expecting to fill the gap with the acquisition of 36 Rafale jets which will be armed with deadly beyond-visual-range Meteor missiles.

Rafale verdict regrettable

The three-judge ruling was co-authored by outgoing Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S.K. Kaul.

16 Nov 2019 12:02 AM IST

Supreme Court of India

Supreme Court call on Sabarimala is counterintuitive

SC has also kept the review petitions on an issue that has been agitating the minds of a lot of people, especially in...

16 Nov 2019 12:00 AM IST

Upholding a 2010 Delhi high court verdict, the five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, cautioned that RTI cannot be used as a tool of surveillance and held that judicial independence and right to privacy have to be kept in mind while dealing with transparency. (Representational Image)

Primacy of RTI upheld

The law can only lay down the broad principle that transparency be seen as a desirable quality in the running of the...

15 Nov 2019 5:21 AM IST

A file photo of the disqualified MLAs at Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru

SC ruling on MLAs to encourage defections

As such, upon incurring disqualification, the members are not debarred from contesting the coming byelections for 15...

15 Nov 2019 12:00 AM IST

The governor, an old RSS hand, gave the party a bare 24 hours to produce a list of MLAs supporting it, turning down its plea for two more days.

Maharashtra power games belie expectations

Since the Sena was now dealing with ideological rivals it was a reasonable assumption that extra time will be needed to...

14 Nov 2019 1:25 AM IST