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Union Minister Arun Jaitley said that Congress had no real issue and was hence resorting to manufacturing. (Photo: File)

Budget: Follow convention

A government whose term is ending soon must not saddle its successor with bills it runs up according to its lights.

19 Jan 2019 12:02 AM IST

The SC has agreed to several provisions of the states law on dance bars, including time restrictions and no showering of currency notes on performers, the minister said.

Dance bars more about livelihood than morality

Social activists have noted that a large part of the dancers' income went into educating their children.

19 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

Disquiet in judiciary

Dismay has been caused in judicial and legal circles by the unusual developments, for which there is no formal...

18 Jan 2019 12:05 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks in the House of Commons in London after losing a vote on her Brexit plan on Tuesday. (Photo: AP)

Deal or not, Brexit is end of globalisation

The truism that no man is an island and not even an island can isolate itself from the world applies to Britain today.

18 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

Caution over Bengal yatras

The rathyatras, of course, can't be rejected altogether, but it would have been ideal if religion didn't obtrude into...

17 Jan 2019 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election campaign rally in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Failure to create jobs begins to haunt govt

The government should be even more worried as rural India bore the brunt of this jobless growth, and saw 84 per cent of...

17 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy

Power games in Karnataka

With the Lok Sabha election just 90-odd days away, the toppling game has only just begun.

16 Jan 2019 12:19 AM IST

Kanhaiya sedition' charge unjustified

The inference is that the nationalism the RSS-BJP lay down is beyond challenge.

16 Jan 2019 12:19 AM IST

Navy personnel conduct rescue task at the site of the coal mine collapse at Ksan, in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya, Monday. (Photo: AP)

Hope fades for miners

The regulation of such activities with safety measures in place might prove the ultimate challenge.

15 Jan 2019 12:05 AM IST

As soon as a member attains the age of 30, she will become a member of the Mahila Congress, where she will work in a similar capacity.

Congress' move on UP is no surprise

It is evident that the Cong cannot win too many seats independently, although it had taken 21 in 2009, going it alone.

15 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

Alok Verma has challenged the government order on the grounds that a 1998 verdict by the Supreme Court stipulated that the CBI Director should have a fixed minimum tenure of two years. (Photo: PTI)

CBI credibility at all-time low

The suspicion is that the Supreme Court may not have shared the Justice Patnaik report with the PM-led committee.

14 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

BSP supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav during a joint press conference in Lucknow. (Photo: PTI)

Major parties find it hard to get allies

The plain truth is that there doesn't appear to be any Mahagathbandhan in the offing to take on the government.

14 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST