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PM Narendra Modi greets Chinas President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Bishkek on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

India should be free to choose 5G partners

5G networks are so fast they can handle data at 10 gigabytes per second while offering rapid network response time.

30 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

An Army convoy stranded on the Jammu-Srinagar-Baramulla National Highway due to a protest by National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah and party leaders on the outskirts of Srinagar on Wednesday against the closure of the highway for safe passage of security forces convoys. (Photo: PTI)

Fuelling fears in Kashmir

Pakistan alone can benefit in such a scenario. India suffers when the populace in the sensitive state is disaffected.

29 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Stena Bulk, a Swedish company which owns the vessel, said they have been unable to contact the ship, which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz. (Photo: AFP)

Relief for India in tanker crisis

India has also been given consular access to the sailors detained on the UK-flagged vessel.

28 July 2019 6:39 AM IST

US President Donald Trump greets Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House in Washington DC on Monday. (Photo: AFP)

Fresh approach needed to dealings with Pakistan

Islamabad is likely to do anything to deliver in order to ensure resumption of aid as well as strong political bonds.

28 July 2019 6:37 AM IST

Nalini Sriharan, one of the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, is released from prison on 30-day parole amid tight security for her daughters wedding in Vellore district on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Clemency for Nalini?

Nalini was granted leave from jail for a few hours on occasion, such as her father's last rites.

27 July 2019 12:05 AM IST

B.S. Yediyurappa (Photo: ANI)

BS Yediyurappa has the numbers, but bypoll test looms

This is a Cabinet peopled with rebels who want their pound of flesh, which, in turn, will upset BJP aspirants.

27 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Make lynchings non-bailable

Even so, the Modi government owes it to India to make mob lynch attacks a non-bailable offence, as demanded by those who...

26 July 2019 12:02 AM IST

BJP President Amit Shah also pitched for simultaneous assembly and Lok Sabha elections, besides touching upon a host of measures taken by the government. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Room for concern on anti-terror bill

The opaqueness in sharing of information protects virtual police states from having to be accountable.

26 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

Boris must deliver Brexit

Having declared the day of the Brexit referendum was Britain's independence day, the new PM must deliver a Brexit,...

25 July 2019 12:05 AM IST

Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy speaks at the Assembly session at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on Thursday.

Fresh polls the best way to resolve K'taka mess

The BJP, the single largest party, was invited by the governor to form a government.

25 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has a majority of 353 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha. (Photo: File)

Tyranny of the majority

Their fear that a tyranny of the majority is in operation in the NDA-2 government is not unfounded.

24 July 2019 1:30 AM IST

US President Donald Trump

Trump claim on Modi, J&K is hard to believe

Even so, it baffles the imagination that he should urge Washington to mediate on the Kashmir question.

24 July 2019 1:28 AM IST