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Asma Jahangir faced death threats, beatings and imprisonment to win landmark human rights cases while standing up to dictators. (Photo: File)

Salute to a true humanist

She was president of the Supreme Court Bar Association too, but her work went far beyond her posts.

15 Feb 2018 2:06 AM IST

An unidentified person has issued a death threat to Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, police said on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

CPI-M is acting silly, tying itself into knots

It's only in Kerala that Leftists have been able to keep their head above water, where the principal challenger is still...

15 Feb 2018 2:06 AM IST

Between 2000 and 2016, British FDI created 371,000 jobs 10 per cent of all jobs created by FDI.

IIP is up. Will more jobs follow?

Employers increasingly preder to hire contract workers in order to circumvent labour laws.

14 Feb 2018 1:08 AM IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

RSS 'aid' to Army? It's road to disaster

He said though the RSS was not a military organisation, it possessed military discipline.

14 Feb 2018 1:08 AM IST

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, second from right, applauds with Kim Yo-jong, third from right, North Korean leader Kim Jong Uns sister, during a performance of North Koreas Samjiyon Orchestra at National Theatre in Seoul on Sunday.

Dragons' dance to herald talks?

Moon had to deal with Shinzo Abe's prod on military exercises in the spring and yet he ensured Japan was not offended in...

13 Feb 2018 12:36 AM IST

Security personnel take position during a militant attack at Sunjwan Army camp. (Photo: PTI)

Govt seems to have run out of ideas on Kashmir

The Narendra Modi government and the BJP have tried to take propaganda mileage from this to showcase their capability.

13 Feb 2018 12:36 AM IST

Goa Forward Party leader Vijai Sardesai. (Photo:PTI)

Goa minister crude but right

As Indians we have to learn that cleanliness is a concept to cover the whole country and not only personal living...

12 Feb 2018 5:40 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

PM Modi misses key issues on Palestine

The Indian PM avoided the question of East Jerusalem being Palestine's capital, though the Palestine President raised...

12 Feb 2018 12:00 AM IST

Trouble in Bangladesh

Khaleda's elder son Tarique Rahman, now resident in London, has also been sentenced, to 10 years in jail.

11 Feb 2018 12:10 AM IST

Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

India must act with intent in the Maldives

Beijing's position is not buttressed under a thoroughly democratic dispensation in the Maldives.

11 Feb 2018 12:09 AM IST

Congress president Sonia Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Sonia's task is complex

Mamata Banerjee had indicated that she would be happy if it was Mrs Gandhi who took the initiative in anti-BJP...

10 Feb 2018 3:16 AM IST

The editorial did not suggest that foreign participation in the defence sector was a novelty in the Rafale case, and focused only on the rule introduced in June 2016. (Photo: PTI)

Rafale deal: Govt has to be forthcoming

No defence deal after Bofors was ever likely to sail smoothly.

10 Feb 2018 3:16 AM IST