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Bhopinder Singh
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The writer is former lieutenant-governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry
    Hamid Ansaris second five-year term as the vice-president ends on Thursday. (Photo: AP/File)Opinion
    Democracy survives: When loss' isn't defeat'

    Today India is deeply polarised, fractured and an increasingly fragmented polity with an ongoing consolidation of the...

    17 Aug 2017 12:35 AM IST

    Islamic State fighters (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Rise of Shia crescent' leaves Mideast rattled

    The fact that Iran is working with the Russians in the Syrian theatre further pushes Iran away from the sensibilities of...

    4 Aug 2017 12:33 AM IST

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    N. Korea's game of dare

    With tempers running high in the restive Korean peninsula, negotiations seem unlikely.

    26 July 2017 12:49 AM IST

    Defence Minister Arun Jaitley (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Why 2017 is not 1962

    Structurally also, the independent PLA is a potential threat to its own regime of the Communist Party of China.

    19 July 2017 2:17 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Royal Castle in Warsaw. (Photo: AP)India
    Trump scripts his version of modern day presidential'

    The media is sensing blood and latching on to the false promises, ineptitude and implications of the Trump presidency.

    7 July 2017 12:16 AM IST

    Qatari premier Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    In Mideast spat, pot calls the kettle black

    Every nation has blood on their hands and has contributed to the bloody quagmire in the Middle East.

    19 Jun 2017 1:53 AM IST

    Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, top left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, top right, attend a signing ceremony following their bilateral meeting held on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 15, 2017. (Photo: AP)India
    Trade-off on OBOR is a risky affair for India

    Beyond the optics of muscle-flexing by both the Chinese and the US-led flotillas in the routine show-of-strength at the...

    2 Jun 2017 1:36 AM IST

    Late Naib Subedar Paramjit Singhs mother mourns near her sons body on its arrival at their village Vain Poin, some 40 km from Amritsar. (Photo: PTI)India
    Pak Army's journey into unsoldierly debasement

    Modern day armed forces of both India and Pakistan owe their genealogical construct and DNA to the erstwhile British...

    11 May 2017 3:59 AM IST

    Indian army soldiers patrol near the Line of Control in Poonch district after a ceasefire violation by Pakistan. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    In Kashmir, a military solution just won't work

    The Centre cannot even complain of the ignorance, intrigues or machinations of state politics as it is part of the...

    3 May 2017 2:25 AM IST

    Gen Bipin Rawat (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Whose Army is it anyway?

    In Pakistan, the political angularity and overspill was unmistakable.

    11 April 2017 3:24 AM IST

    Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Pathan angst around the Durand Line

    Over 30 million Pathans are in Pakistan while another 14 million are on the other side of the Durand Line in...

    31 March 2017 2:23 AM IST

    Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Pakistan drifts towards isolation

    Pakistanis from shifting blame on its deteriorating security situation and growing intolerance on the footsteps of the...

    3 March 2017 6:38 AM IST

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