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Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh (Photo: PTI)

Cheers at rallies might not mean votes

Newspaper journalists receive feedback in a different, slower way and that is one reason why newspapers are less...

21 April 2019 5:11 AM IST

Congress president Rahul Gandhi maintained that there was massive corruption in contract and wondered why CAG report cited by SC on it had not been shared with PAC of Parliament. (Photo: ANI)

Anti-intellectualism: Its boons and pitfalls

It should be said that the Congress Party's dynasty is itself not particularly qualified in the educational sense.

14 April 2019 12:00 AM IST

Senior BJP leader L K Advani. (Photo: PTI)

Nation First, Self Last' is an empty slogan

Shah had said that Congress leaders should drown themselves for proposing the weakening of the Afspa law.

7 April 2019 12:05 AM IST

55,012 farmers of Konkan division took the insurance cover

Democracies need NGOs to protect rights

The United Progressive Alliance set up a group of people from civil society and called this group the National Advisory...

31 March 2019 2:26 AM IST

The sources said, Election Commission would also ask law ministry to take call on its demand to extend constitutional protection to 2 election commissioners on lines of CEC. (Photo: File)

EC must encourage people to contest polls

Candidates are also disqualified if they have been convicted for some specific offences that are listed.

24 March 2019 12:06 AM IST

At least 49 were killed and 20 were injured after a gunman opened fire on Friday prayers at a mosque in New Zealand killing many worshippers and forcing the city of Christchurch into lockdown as police launched a massive manhunt. (Photo: File)

The coloniser who murdered immigrants

This is of interest because of the beliefs that the shooter in New Zealand has about immigration and foreigners.

17 March 2019 5:52 AM IST

In fact even the British officers who first examined the remains at Harappa did not fully understand what they were and many of the first-rate bricks that were found there were used to build the railways.

Our history is older than Aryan influx

A village right next to it is populated by Punjabis who would have lived there for generations without any interest in...

10 March 2019 12:10 AM IST

Abhinandan Varthaman finally emerged at 9.10 pm(IST) at the Wagah checkpost on the Pakistani side, accompanied by Pakistani rangers, the Indian air attache posted in the High Commission in Islamabad. (Photo: PTI)

We must think beyond rivalling Pakistan

The intensity with which we are focussed on Pakistan, particularly our government and our media, ultimately harms us and...

3 March 2019 12:43 AM IST

A file photo of India captain Virat Kohli and his counterpart Sarfaraz Ahmed posing with the Champions Trophy. (Photo: AFP)

World Cup: Boycotting Pak gets us nothing

India has always beaten Pakistan in the World Cup in the previous six times we have played them.

24 Feb 2019 12:12 AM IST

Masood Azhar is accused of several deadly terrorist attacks in India, including one on the Uri military base in Jammu and Kashmir in 2016, in which 17 security personnel were killed. (Photo: AP)

India must calibrate response to Jaish

The suicide bombing is not preferred by LeT because in its particular belief of Islam, which is called Salafi, suicide...

17 Feb 2019 1:09 AM IST

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf (Photo: AP)

While Pak bans bank interest, India bans cows

Most Indians, including judges, do not take the scientific and economic reading of Article 48.

10 Feb 2019 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election campaign rally in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

We need universal basic income as jobs shrink

The Modi government's scheme is for farmers who have less than 2 hectares (meaning about 5 acres)

3 Feb 2019 12:42 AM IST