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Indian law provides senior citizens with certain basic rights, including the right to maintenance by children and relatives; the right to proper medical aid; the right to social security and integrity; the right to old-age pensions and other related benefits; and the right not to be exploited or ill-treated by others.

Bring seniors back into policy discourse

The most conjoint disability among the aged persons is locomotor and visual disability.

24 Nov 2019 7:05 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The Centre has withdrawn the SPG cover of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and his wife.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The government has said in Parliament that security to the Gandhis has not been withdrawn .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

It takes time to hone and propel a higher purpose in life, just as much it takes leisure to mature, or mellow.

Mystic Mantra: Make an endeavour to understand self-belief

Self-belief is a veritable dynamo. It resides within and outside of our mind.

23 Nov 2019 2:29 AM IST

the Supreme Court handed over the disputed land to the Ram Temple trust in the politically-sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case in Ayodhya. (Photo: AP)

Ayodhya land for Muslims not charity'

As citizens of the country, Muslims have as much right to acquire land in this country as other citizens.

23 Nov 2019 2:29 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

After Brexit, immigration key factor in UK polls

The British, or 51 per cent of them, don't like this and voted to leave the European Union to a great measure because of...

23 Nov 2019 2:28 AM IST

The human body runs on a 24-hour cycle which is regulated by our internal clock, which is known as a circadian rhythm, or chronotype.

Mystic Mantra: The mind is the human body's software

The body is similar to the hardware and the mind is like the software of a computer.

22 Nov 2019 2:44 AM IST

Then again there is the threat of men infiltrating the camp and committing sexual assaults on the female inmates of the camp.

A women's caliphate' on the Syrian-Iraq border that would otherwise...

The camp is now home to over 70,000 people, most of whom are women and children.

22 Nov 2019 2:42 AM IST

A replica of the proposed Ram Mandir on display at Karsewakpuram in Ayodhya on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Ayodhya: Seek compromise, don't stoke fires

After the Supreme Court verdict, its merits or demerits notwithstanding, one imagined that the tumult would subside.

22 Nov 2019 2:38 AM IST

The trees have practically shed their leaves. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: What fruits do I and my actions produce?'

Despite Austria being a small country, its vast expanse is covered with lovely forests, which many people use for their...

21 Nov 2019 2:34 AM IST

China on Saturday deployed its troops in Hong Kong for the first time since the unprecedented pro-democracy protests began in the former British colony more than five months ago over a proposed extradition law, with soldiers in plain clothes clearing the roadblocks. (Photo: AP)

Hong Kong's authorities have dug themselves a hole and there's no way...

The authorities declared that the protesters holed up on the campus, most of them students, had no option other than to...

21 Nov 2019 2:30 AM IST

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray

The long and short of Shiv Sena's rebellion

With Uddhav Thackeray's refusal to go along with the BJP after the polls, the ruling party at the Centre has been given...

21 Nov 2019 2:26 AM IST

Franciss writings overflowed with the love of God and neighbours. His Introduction to the Devout Life and Love of God and Spiritual Conferences are spiritual classics with striking sayings like: (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The strength of a remorseful heart

The Creator has placed a unique volitional quality in man's psyche and that is what is called repentance .

20 Nov 2019 2:40 AM IST