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BJP President Amit Shah (Photo: PTI)

Of mango diplomacy & the Kolkata snub

Constantly playing catch-up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has a fresh challenge in...

1 July 2018 5:20 AM IST

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

2 new UTs born in J&K: What is govt really up to?

The Centre's decision to strike at the heart of Article 370, and to dissolve J&K state, thus strikes at the basic...

31 Oct 2019 12:00 AM IST

Muslims should urge a settlement of the Kashmir problem and thus improvement in Pakistan-India relations.

The Uncle Toms among Indian Muslims over Kashmir

Muslims withdrew into a shell whenever the word Kashmir was uttered.

27 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST

Rohan Gunaratna

Rajapaksa return will curb radicalisation'

Religious leaders and educators must come together to address the challenge.

21 Oct 2019 3:10 AM IST

Security personnel patrol the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Jammu on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

J&K: Has the trust of 70 years gone?

The speech of Pakistan PM Imran Khan at the UN General Assembly last month elicits nothing but praise.

21 Oct 2019 2:44 AM IST

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra leaves after visiting the victims of Sonbhadra incident in Varanasi on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Rejig buzz starts guessing game; Priyanka's team attracts envy

The Congress is currently abuzz with stories about a showdown between party chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi a few...

21 Oct 2019 2:00 AM IST

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal addresses a press conference at party headquarters in New Delhi on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Kapil Sibal urges PM to focus on poverty, unemployment

Article 47 states that raising the level of nutrition and the standard of living and improving public health is the duty...

20 Oct 2019 2:56 AM IST

Ravi Shankar Prasad said the campaign has become a peoples movement. (Photo: ANI)

To solve India's problems, first admit they exist!

In order to address a problem and find a solution, it is absolutely necessary to first acknowledge that the problem...

17 Oct 2019 12:30 AM IST

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

Kashmiris hopeful, Apna Time Aayega'

All of them are under arrest without any charge while the senior Abdullah has now been slapped with draconian Public...

7 Oct 2019 2:29 AM IST

Highly-placed sources in the Uttarakhand government confirmed that state government and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting are working on to finalise the blueprint to set up the institute in the hill state soon.

Modi govt moots bill to liberalise print media

The proposed law also aims to do away with the stringent punishments and jail terms for infringement under the current...

26 Nov 2019 7:24 AM IST

During the emergency , a euphemism for dictatorship, Indira Gandhi rushed through parliament the 42nd constitutional amendment when top Opposition leaders had been put in jail without trial in June 1975. (Photo: PTI)

Who is to judge the misuse of parliamentary privilege?

It recast the Indian polity radically and gave her wide powers to ban political parties.

25 Nov 2019 12:01 AM IST

Hindu activists climb up the dome of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya which was quickly demolished by end of the day. (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Babri verdict based on faith, not evidence

There now comes the Supreme Court's strange verdict strangely expressed with a stooge addendum which belies its...

17 Nov 2019 12:07 AM IST