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BJP's victory signals its alliance will hold in 2019

The BJP has shown that some of its allies, despite their grouses with the saffron party, are likely to stick with it in...

10 Aug 2018 2:08 AM IST

Supporters, in large numbers, arrive to pay their last respects to DMK chief M. Karunanidhi at Rajaji Hall in Chennai on Wednesday. (Photo: AP)

Marina burial right move

Chief Minister Edapaddi Palaniswamy may regret his move, which showed pettiness.

9 Aug 2018 7:20 AM IST

JD(U) member Harivansh Narain Singh (Photo: ANI)

For govt & Opposition, RS poll to be a show of strength

Unfortunately, there is no unanimity among the members of the Rajya Sabha in finding the next deputy chairman, and an...

9 Aug 2018 7:15 AM IST

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi

A global Indian achiever

The global corporate world will lose a prominent woman CEO in Chennai-born Indra Nooyi.

8 Aug 2018 7:00 AM IST

Former chief minister M. Karunanidhi

Farewell to the last of Tamil Nadu's titans

However frail at the end of his 94 years, he was a colossus of Dravidian values till the end and always an eternal...

8 Aug 2018 6:56 AM IST

Justice K.M. Joseph

Ensure justice for Joseph

This isn't just a matter about a few senior Supreme Court judges urging the CJI to talk it out with the government.

7 Aug 2018 6:57 AM IST

Article 35A uncertainty is like playing with fire

It can be argued that it's the insufficient awareness of the situation by the Supreme Court that has somewhat helped...

7 Aug 2018 6:55 AM IST

Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, key accused in Punjab National Bank scam. (Photo: PTI/File)

Laxness aided Choksi's flight

The uncle and nephew team of Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi made modern India's biggest bank heist in a $2 billion scam...

6 Aug 2018 12:55 AM IST

Working of quota policy needs review

The court also rejected a petition last week which urged that quotas be extended to those below the poverty line.

6 Aug 2018 12:53 AM IST

West Bengal chief minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee meets UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi at 10 Janpath in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Better chance of Opposition unity

Is there anyone in the Opposition who can stand up to Mr Modi in the nation's leadership stakes?

5 Aug 2018 12:09 AM IST

The Armys role in containing terrorism and defusing militant plots against the nation is unenviable. (Photo: PTI/Representational image)

Curb Army's excesses

The Manipur case is a cause celebre in such matters and it is very important that it is quickly concluded and justice...

5 Aug 2018 12:09 AM IST

Justice Rohinton Nariman, who wrote the main judgment, invalidated triple talaq mainly on the ground that it violated Article 14, which offers equality before law and equal opportunities before law.

Time to decriminalise adultery

A petitioner in a PIL had argued that the existing law was discriminatory as it punishes only the man in an adulterous...

4 Aug 2018 7:07 AM IST