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Besides the districts, the lynching spree spread to Tamil Nadu and Telangana where a transgender was battered to death in Hyderabad on May 28 by a mob merely on suspicion that he was a child-lifter.

Lynchings: Examine the deeper malaise

With a general election not far away, every issue is being lent a deep political overtone.

24 July 2018 7:04 AM IST

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal (Photo: File)

Revise GST in one go

The rationale behind this tweaking isn't clear, though some say it was done to woo urban and rural voters ahead of the...

23 July 2018 12:37 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

More chaos, violence likely after Pak polls

The political campaign has borne the full brunt of the playing out of the process of dangerous extremists wearing party...

23 July 2018 12:36 AM IST

Justice K.M. Joseph

Accept Joseph's elevation

The question of the right to make the appointments was settled when the top court shot down the National Judicial...

22 July 2018 12:53 AM IST

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

The no-trust debate reveals NDA fissures

A no-trust move is resorted to when a government's opponents feel that the running of the country is in poor shape.

22 July 2018 12:51 AM IST

Benjamin Netanyahu brandished a rectangular piece of dark green metal which he called a piece of that Iranian drone, or whats left of it, after we shot it down. (Photo: File)

Israeli move unfortunate

This is a path India rejected after Independence even after the country was vivisected on a communal and regional basis.

21 July 2018 7:12 AM IST

Sabarimala temple

Supreme Court's Sabarimala ruling may be a landmark one

In the course of arguments, the five-judge bench has been saying there can be no discrimination on the basis of gender.

21 July 2018 7:06 AM IST

Failure by the EU to explicitly exempt markets regulators from the blocs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could jeopardise international probes.

Tighten data protection rules

India will be on the right path if it enforced robust data protection rules for its citizens.

20 July 2018 7:14 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the first day of the Monsoon session of the Parliament. (Photo: AP)

No-trust debate: Govt, Opp hopes stay high

The discussion and vote will take place today. What is behind this change in stance?

20 July 2018 7:10 AM IST

US President Donald Trump to meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16. (Photo: File)

Chemistry of a thaw at encounter in Helsinki

Chemistry dominated over substance in the Trump-Putin interaction, with Russian election meddling still ominously...

19 July 2018 7:38 AM IST

Addressing a press conference, AIMPLB general secretary Maulana Wali Rahmani said the governments move would paint all in one colour, and lead to social unrest. (Photo: AFP)

Shocker by Islamic clerics

The AIMPLB is an NGO and has no legal standing, though in Muslim society it has some acceptance.

19 July 2018 7:25 AM IST

Supporters of Swami Agnivesh said he was dragged on the road, slapped and kicked by BJP workers who had assembled outside his hotel on Tuesday to oppose his presence in the district. (Photo: PTI)

To deter lynch mobs, enforce existing laws

The need to stress on lynching as a criminal offence whose consequences will be dire is also timely.

19 July 2018 7:20 AM IST