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    Indias hawks baulked at this, holding that a Pakistan weakened by war should have been coerced to accept the LoC as a final border.Opinion
    The designs of RSS contradict Shimla Pact

    The agreement suited both sides admirably. It was the product of an understanding between the two leaders at the...

    22 Dec 2019 1:24 AM IST

    For a few individuals, however the security threat is real and it is constant. Indira Gandhi was murdered 35 years ago, on October 31, 1984. Her 25-year-old bodyguard Beant Singh shot her three times with his 0.38 service revolver. After the Prime Minister fell to the ground, the other bodyguard, 22-year-old Satwant Singh, shot the defenceless 67-year-old grandmother 30 times with his Sten machine gun. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Presidential system poses a danger to democracy itself

    Political instability can be cured only by seeking political cures.

    16 Dec 2019 12:25 AM IST

    While Chidambaram is out on bail in the INX Media corruption case being probed by the CBI, the summons was issued to the bureaucrats and other accused after the court took cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the agency last month. (Photo: Representational | ANI)Opinion
    India needs laws to protect press from govt

    The Criminal Procedure Code confers wide powers of search on the police.

    8 Dec 2019 1:37 AM IST

    Uddhav Thackeray.Opinion
    Maharashtra shows Modi will bite dust if Oppositin unites

    The BJP denied the accord and refused the prize to its partner.

    1 Dec 2019 1:54 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)Opinion
    Who is to judge the misuse of parliamentary privilege?

    It recast the Indian polity radically and gave her wide powers to ban political parties.

    25 Nov 2019 2:00 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)Opinion
    Babri verdict based on faith, not evidence

    There now comes the Supreme Court’s strange verdict strangely expressed with a stooge addendum which belies its...

    17 Nov 2019 3:12 AM IST

    Security personnel patrol a deserted street in Srinagar on Friday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Habeas corpus is habeas carcass in Kashmir Valley

    The time is come to consider the basics of the legal outrage of imprisonment without trial called ‘preventive...

    11 Nov 2019 1:05 AM IST

    India’s freedom fighters fought sedition lawOpinion
    India’s freedom fighters fought sedition law

    Lynchings became an epidemic shortly after Modi became Prime Minister.

    20 Oct 2019 2:27 AM IST

    As politicians cannot usurp power, judges must not tooOpinion
    As politicians cannot usurp power, judges must not too

    This is a naked usurpation of power opposed to the constitution and the rule of law on which it rests.

    14 Oct 2019 2:01 AM IST

    History should not be abused by politiciansOpinion
    History should not be abused by politicians

    The danger is far greater when the state has a hand in the writing of history.

    7 Oct 2019 1:49 AM IST

    Is Constitution ‘anti-Hindu’ or the RSS anti-Indian?Opinion
    Is Constitution ‘anti-Hindu’ or the RSS anti-Indian?

    The RSS has now chosen to speak through its outfit, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

    29 Sept 2019 1:49 AM IST

    Protests set to grow after the clampdown lifts in J&KOpinion
    Protests set to grow after the clampdown lifts in J&K

    After the Partition of India, that “separatist” sentiment became stronger still.

    22 Sept 2019 2:54 AM IST

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