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India and Pakistan flag

We're not at war, but we're never at peace

The south and the east of India are different, but then those differences exist inside India as well.

29 July 2018 1:45 AM IST

Prime Minister Theresa May discovered this on December 13, 2017, when her government suffered a major defeat as rebels from her own Conservative Party allied with the Labour Party and other Opposition parties to push through an amendment to Brexit legislation, the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, in the House of Commons.

Cabbages & Kings: Crime, religion can't be clubbed

One of the more appropriate appointments made by British Prime Minister Theresa May (hem) was the promotion of Sajid...

28 July 2018 7:48 AM IST

Mob violence is a marker of governance deficit. And as the 2019 general election nears, expect the Opposition parties to tap the issue. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Vikas and violence can't go together

Development programmes work best when there is social stability.

27 July 2018 2:09 AM IST

The brain is like a computer which performs many functions. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: Inventions of God

A majority of human beings, though, go through life unaware of the invisible Creator.

24 July 2018 7:32 AM IST

Rudyard Kipling (Photo: AFP)

Of Kipling, modern monarchy ruling the UK and women taking over the...

When the poem If was painting over, we were reminded of what Kipling actually stood for.

23 July 2018 12:46 AM IST

Dilli Ka Babu: Non-cooperation blues

Dilli Ka Babu: Non-cooperation blues

Several IAS officers feel that the move is a clear attempt to attack the autonomy of UPSC which conducts the...

22 July 2018 2:50 AM IST

The fact that Manchester Universitys student diversity officer and liberation and access officer initiate a move to erase If from their sight, will not result in Kiplings works disappearing from the history of literature. (Photo: Pixabay)

Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

The students are absolutely within their rights to airbrush poems they don't want to see on the walls of what is their...

22 July 2018 1:15 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Lok Sabha on no-confidence motion during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

No-trust motion exposed disarray in Oppn

Perhaps the real intent then was for the Opposition to launch its campaign for 2019 through this effort.

22 July 2018 1:09 AM IST

Students paint over Rudyard Kiplings poem If in protest at writers racism. (Photo: Pixabay)

Cabbages & Kings: Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

Recent decoration of the building entailed inscribing Rudyard Kipling's poem, If, on one of the large round internal...

21 July 2018 7:57 AM IST

Taken by photographer Nick Ut Cong Huynh for the Associated Press, the 1972 picture of a naked Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack is considered one of the wars defining images. It was honoured with the Pulitzer Prize. (Photo: AP)

Dev 360: How a nation deals with the past An Asian story

On a recent vacation to Vietnam, it was fascinating to see how this feisty nation has dealt with its past, including its...

18 July 2018 7:24 AM IST

Food and Safety Standard Authority of India (FSSAI)

FSSAI's labelling rules promote unhealthy food

FSSAI equates bad fats which are unfit for eating with good fats necessary for health.

16 July 2018 3:12 AM IST

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan

Khan set to tread his seniors' path

It may be strange now but Mr Sharif was once exactly in the same position as Mr Khan today is.

15 July 2018 12:44 AM IST