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Congress president Rahul Gandhi with party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee president Raj Babbar during a roadshow in Lucknow on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Why I feel sorry for Priyanka

Priyanka's legendary charm and people skills are simply not enough to do the trick.

23 Feb 2019 12:52 AM IST

Sources said that though junior level officials from both sides were having flag meetings.

India can't turn off Indus water flow to Pak

The Indus river system has a total drainage area exceeding 11,165,000 sq km

23 Feb 2019 12:49 AM IST

personnel stands guard during curfew in Srinagar on Sunday. Authorities imposed curfew in the parts of Valley following the killing of a top militant commander at Tral in Pulwama District of South Kashmir Yesterday. (Photo: PTI)

J&K: Citizens aren't the enemy; paramilitary jawans victims too

Kashmiris have presented themselves as scapegoats in the confrontation between the military and their dream of a...

22 Feb 2019 7:18 AM IST

Pope Francis in in a new policy published Thursday said, that it is always inadmissible because it attacks the inherent dignity of all humans. (Photo: File)

Mystic Mantra: A stand on chairs

Biblical imagery of a chair, a seat or a throne signifies honour, authority and reverence.

22 Feb 2019 1:09 AM IST

Yoga is the journey from A to B. A, is where you are, B is the finality. Guru, is someone, who has already walked that path and has the experience of finality. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Man! Know thyself

Man is composed of body, mind (intellect) and soul.

21 Feb 2019 3:44 AM IST

A house in which militants are suspected to have sheltered is in flames after a gunfight between militants and the security forces in South Kashmirs Pulwama district, some 10 km away from the spot of the recent suicide bombing. (Photo; AFP)

To succeed in J&K; Army, police alone not enough

Pakistan's Deep State is aware of the reluctance of the Indian establishment to do a full reach out and engagement.

21 Feb 2019 12:31 AM IST

Happiness is not the enigma as it has been led to assume. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Real happiness is in the real', not the unreal' world

This world is considered to be unreal and the atman (the pure divine self) is considered to be real.

20 Feb 2019 3:03 AM IST

Violence has been on the rise and in many ways far worse in the last year. (Photo:PTI)

Volatile Kashmir needs careful handling

Finally, the freedom given to the security forces to act is not freedom to make the lives of ordinary people more...

20 Feb 2019 3:03 AM IST

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (Photo: PTI)

Hasina's Rohingya dilemma growing, Delhi must help Dhaka resolve...

Muslim refugees many of whom have now spent more than 18 months in the camps.

20 Feb 2019 2:13 AM IST

One of the Indian mystics who celebrated divine love and syncretic devotion was Maulana Hasrat Mohani. In his own words, he was a Sufi momin (Sufi believer), ishtiraaki Muslim (secular Muslim), Aashiq-e-Rasool (lover of the holy Prophet) and at the same time, a Krishna bhakt (devotee of Krishna). (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Sufi Basant Mosaic of multiculturalism in India

For Hindus, Basant Panchami is dedicated to Saraswati who is venerated as a deity of wisdom.

19 Feb 2019 5:24 AM IST

J&K governor Satya Pal Malik (Photo: PTI)

Faulty politics, intel failures led to J&K tragedy

The government and its bailiff in Kashmir, state governor Satya Pal Malik, are yet to take any meaningful deterrent...

19 Feb 2019 5:17 AM IST

Albert Einstein (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: The mysterious realisation of advaita

Einstein says that nature is neither solely material nor entirely spiritual.

18 Feb 2019 12:58 AM IST