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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informs that during protests 7 police vehicles and 79 KSRTC buses have been damaged. (Photo: ANI)

Flap in Kerala as babu defends killing Maoists

The article had come as a counter, mainly to the CPI's criticism and the Congress-led Opposition's campaign of police...

9 Nov 2019 12:34 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

With polls in UK, will Brexit vote remain binding? Or not as such?

Boris makes other promises: to extend jail sentences, build more prisons and fund health and schools, but their main...

9 Nov 2019 12:30 AM IST

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

In Baghdadi's death, did US really 'kill its own creature'?

When history is written, Mr Trump will be chastised for a hundred reasons, and severely.

8 Nov 2019 2:19 AM IST

One of the great scholars when it comes to Urdu literature, Gopi Chand Narang, was quoted as saying that, Urdu is not the language of Muslims. If at all there is any language of Muslims, it should be Arabic. Urdu belongs to the composite culture of India. Hindi and Urdu are supplementary and complementary. They are like sisters strengthening each other .

Urdu has a glorious past, but will its future too be bright?

In order to fully grasp the state of the Urdu language in the post-Independence period, an examination of the roots of...

8 Nov 2019 1:56 AM IST

Abhijit Banerjee, this years Nobel laureate in Economics

'India may have walked out of RCEP too early'

The nature of the bureaucratic beast is a bit against the spirit of doing something long term.

8 Nov 2019 1:45 AM IST

Winston Churchill (Photo: AP)

Thirty years after fall of Berlin Wall, democracy in Europe is in...

Inevitably, this has consequences, both within nation states and in the wider European context.

7 Nov 2019 4:10 AM IST

Mystic Mantra - The Pope's beatitudes: Who are the blessed?

The gospels are the most printed and sold books in the world.

7 Nov 2019 2:42 AM IST

Abhijit Banerjee

Need value for money in healthcare

It is a known fact that private providers are a dominant source of OP care both in urban and rural areas.

7 Nov 2019 2:30 AM IST

Security personnel patrol a deserted street in Srinagar on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

History's lesson for J&K: 'There is no why here'

Yes, indeed. Levi's gentle voice is heard in If This Is A Man. The book is authentic and excruciatingly painful.

7 Nov 2019 2:23 AM IST

It takes time to hone and propel a higher purpose in life, just as much it takes leisure to mature, or mellow.

Mystic Mantra: Savour life, relish the moments

We're all missing out on a life that is unfolding in front of us, one that is so wonderful and yet won't be there later...

6 Nov 2019 5:56 AM IST

Muslims are required to perform wudu in preparation for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Quran.

Don't question my identity! Setting the record straight in dismal...

The religious priests assumed that they were there for religious purposes and not for tourism.

6 Nov 2019 5:52 AM IST

The UN has grown much since then, reflecting the changes in the world mostly due to decolonisation, fragmentation of the USSR, and the division of some founder member states like Yugoslavia.

It's high time to push UN's democratisation

The UN now has 191 members, and Switzerland was the last to join on September 10, 2002.

6 Nov 2019 1:16 AM IST