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

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition

In Pakistan, and particularly after the military capture of the state by successive generals, the narrative became quite...

29 Dec 2019 12:05 AM IST

The National Register of Citizenship phenomena, therefore, looks different, smells different and feels different.

Track record of NRC doesn't bode well

To my mind, it is incorrect for the government to believe that the protestors do not know what they are protesting...

22 Dec 2019 12:53 AM IST

Tens of thousands of protesters against the CAB descended on the streets of Assam, clashing with police and plunging the state into chaos of a magnitude unseen since the violent six-year movement by students that ended with the signing of the Assam accord. (Photo: PTI)

Immigration policy of BJP has unwanted side-effects

The Citizenship Amendment Bill offers these people cover and will only specifically exclude Muslims.

15 Dec 2019 12:05 AM IST

Police at the site of the alleged encounter of the four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinary on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Friday morning. (Photo: PTI)

Encounter in Hyderabad was a lynching

The encounter specialist is the policeman who is willing to do the murder at close quarters of unarmed human beings.

8 Dec 2019 7:11 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)

Indian majoritarianism subtle, but deadly

The damage caused by constitutional majoritarianism is dependent on the individual.

1 Dec 2019 7:17 AM IST

The Centre has withdrawn the SPG cover of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and his wife. (Photo: Asian Age)

Modi should reinstate SPG cover to Gandhis

The government has said in Parliament that security to the Gandhis has not been withdrawn .

24 Nov 2019 6:58 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Maharashtra: Modi's poll prowess fearsome

The Sena, the Congress and the NCP fear increasing irrelevance because of the BJP.

17 Nov 2019 12:03 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)

Ayodhya verdict sets precedent: Doctrine of necessity invoked?

It has become clear that legally India has done what the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the BJP were demanding all this time.

10 Nov 2019 12:28 AM IST

A statement from the Union minister for information technology instead said India had asked WhatsApp to explain what the nature of the breach was and what it was doing to protect the privacy of Indians.

When govt snoops, it's never held to account

The important fact here is that all of the NSO Group's clients are national governments.

3 Nov 2019 12:42 AM IST

US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Patriotic Trump: To impeach or not?

Presidents are immune from crimes committed while they are in office but they can be removed through the process of...

27 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST

There are chances of Pakistan following this worldwide trend not so much for reporting, but because of the haphazard world of social media.

Sanctions on Pak might not curb terror

It is essentially those Kashmiris who are motivated enough to fight against the Indian state who are keeping our Army...

20 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST

Ray Kurzweil (Photo: AFP)

A very interesting future awaits, courtesy tech

Our current problem is the data rate, meaning we are slow to input data because we using only our thumbs to type.

13 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST