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Prime minister Narendra Modi

Delhi riot, Halle synagogue attack prove bigotry is a handy state...

A sting operation comes to mind. It was conducted by an intrepid journalist on one of the leading mob heads in Gujarat.

4 March 2020 2:33 AM IST

PMK grasps cinema's power, belatedly

The 2014 statement was on Ramadoss's pet peeve: Fake register marriages used to extort money from parents of innocent...

4 March 2020 2:30 AM IST

Empathy is the ability to understand what others think and feel, and to respond to their thoughts and feelings with appropriate emotions. Individuals who feel empathy experience greater happiness and make friends more easily.

Mystic Mantra: Why we need an empathy revolution

The empathy that society needs is not a form that comes from superiority, but one that is born from a profound humility.

3 March 2020 3:02 AM IST

Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Communists might back Bernie, but he's not one

Mr Sanders, the longest serving Independent senator, joined the Democratic Party last year only.

3 March 2020 2:58 AM IST

Osho says: Awareness means an intensity. Such an intensity of wakefulness that no thought interferes with. You are simply conscious without any thought. Try it. You can try it anywhere.

Mystic Mantra: What is the way beyond violence?

There are billions of religious people all over the earth who believe in their particular religions, and they love and...

2 March 2020 3:14 AM IST

The inception of Pakistans e-surveillance programme can be traced back to the evolution of Nadra into a national registry and centralised database of all citizens. (Photo: Pixabay)

Pakistan: Without data protection & privacy laws, Internet can be...

The citizen protection rules are the most recent in a long chain of events that illustrate how the state is expanding...

2 March 2020 3:11 AM IST

British PM to get married, in office

Meanwhile, this will be the first wedding in over 200 years of a sitting Prime Minister. Bring out the buntings!

2 March 2020 3:09 AM IST

Ram Nath Kovind

Dilli Ka Babu: Privileged connections

But Diwakar Nath Misra is no run-of-the-mill joint secretary.

1 March 2020 4:31 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi

The RSS is not amused with Modi's cult of personality

The RSS was not amused to see Modi build a cult of personality from the very outset. But it shrewdly assessed both cost...

1 March 2020 4:27 AM IST

The Centre for the Monitoring of the Indian Economy says that corporate sales declined by 1.2 per cent in the October-December 2019-20 quarter (having declined by 2.8 per cent before that) and profits before tax shrunk by 10 per cent (compared to a shrinkage of 60 per cent in the previous quarter).

A bad time for India, but with bad leadership

Outside of the formal sector, data has been difficult to collect credibly in India.

1 March 2020 4:24 AM IST

A book value in a sense represents a historical cost, or the purchase cost adjusted for depreciation while market value is the true value of the enterprise that can be realised in the open market.

The govt's grand garage sale of Air India

The book value of an enterprise can be markedly different from its market value.

1 March 2020 4:21 AM IST

Photo: Imran Khan Instagram

PTI: Too young a dream to have lost all its romance already

The possibilities of politics in Punjab under Sardar Buzdar, tasked with granting or refusing relief to Mian Nawaz...

29 Feb 2020 7:17 AM IST