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Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu. (Photo: PTI)

Peace vital in Arunachal

Most of the Northeast was once just Assam, and issues have built up in the four decades since separate states came into...

27 Feb 2019 1:33 AM IST

In pre-dawn precision airstrikes, the Indian Air Forces Mirage-2000 fighters hit at the Jaish-e-Mohammeds main training facility at Balakot in Pakistans Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, crossing the Line of Control and the international border. (Representational image)

Pre-emptive' cross-LoC airstrike a first for India

All reports indicate that the air operation was of the highest professional calibre.

27 Feb 2019 1:25 AM IST

Over 300 cars gutted in a fire at a parking lot at Aero India 2019 in Bengaluru on Saturday. (Photo: Shashidhar B.)

India rises as defence partner

Undeterred, the Surya Kiran aircraft returned to enthrall aviation buffs at the end of the show.

26 Feb 2019 12:23 AM IST

Satya Pal Malik Governor of Jammu and Kashmir

Govt looks to address Kashmir crisis mood

The importance of this cannot be underestimated in the current scenario.

26 Feb 2019 12:23 AM IST

Based on the tip-off, a special team of police headed by the Taramani Superintendent of Police, had conducted a raid in Rajaji Street in Taramani on Monday evening and recovered 30 bottles of liquor from them. (Representational Image)

Hooch deaths reflect poverty

The only way to control this is to keep strict watch on methanol production for industrial and other use.

25 Feb 2019 12:03 AM IST

Tricolour draped coffins of CRPF personnel who lost their lives in the Pulwama terror attack, during wreath laying ceremony at the CRPF camp in Budgam on Friday. (PTI)

US nudges Pakistan to assuage India concerns

It is this which alerted Pakistan that it must be seen to do something constructive in order not to attract any further...

25 Feb 2019 12:02 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi

Where was Modi during attack?

The proposition that suggests itself is that Mr Modi was not made aware of the terrorist outrage by his office in New...

24 Feb 2019 2:01 AM IST

Sporting boycotts rarely fulfil political objectives

Sport is a universal forum aspiring to higher ideals and it cannot be used as a bargaining chip in gesture politics.

24 Feb 2019 1:58 AM IST

A scene of the spot after militants attacked a CRPF convoy in Goripora area of Awantipora town in Pulwama district of J&K on Thursday. At least 49 CRPF jawans were killed in the attack. (Photo: PTI)

Elections & politics of war

The government's actions are akin to budget sops, and the politics of Ram Mandir has, at an expedient moment, been...

23 Feb 2019 1:06 AM IST

The budget airlines that ruined the business models of full-service airlines in cutthroat competition following the Indigo model are themselves facing headwinds.

Is Jet Airways' bailout in the national interest?

Not a financial quarter passes without an European budget airline caving in.

23 Feb 2019 12:51 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets Saudi Arabias Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as President Ram Nath Kovind looks on during a ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Pulwama has limited impact on MBS' visit

The thing to remember is that MBS is really on a familiarisation trip Pakistan, India, China and South Korea being...

22 Feb 2019 12:55 AM IST

Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy (Photo: Twitter)

Shocker from a governor

Evidently, Mr Roy inhabits an area of darkness and equates Kashmiris with Pakistanis just because both are followers of...

21 Feb 2019 12:50 AM IST