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A truly fit case for the death penalty

Abu Salem's case will serve as a reminder that the death penalty is still logical when punishing terrorists.

9 Sept 2017 12:27 AM IST

Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat. (Photo: PTI)

General's warning is timely

Rawat has top-level clearance to express those views.

9 Sept 2017 12:25 AM IST

Almost 69,000 Rohingyas have since fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh, according to UN estimates. (Photo: AFP)

India must try not to target all Rohingyas

Nevertheless, the official Indian articulation in Naypyitaw needed to be far more nuanced.

8 Sept 2017 12:44 AM IST

Supreme Court ordered an NIA probe into the conversion and marriage of Akhila Ashokan.

Stamp out cow vigilantism

Cow vigilantism has spread disaffection and caused deaths too by lynching, which has no place in any civilised society.

8 Sept 2017 12:42 AM IST

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

US: Dreams turned nightmare

The politics of appeasing the majority too can have painful consequences.

7 Sept 2017 12:47 AM IST

Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi, center, and Nandita Das, second right, participate in a protest condemning the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Mumbai. (Photo: AP)

Lankesh's killing: Silencing dissent?

The Karnataka government must speak and share with the public the findings of its police team.

7 Sept 2017 12:32 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before the group photo session at 2017 Brics Summit in Xiamen, Fujian province in China, on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Don't expect China to change its ways soon

New Delhi and Beijing should get serious if they want to promote a healthy relationship.

6 Sept 2017 12:29 AM IST

Star India acquired monopoly over the broadcast rights of IPL across both TV and digital media. (Photo: BCCI)

IPL: Still on a roll

The game's popularity is soaring despite the match-fixing and betting scandals of 2013.

6 Sept 2017 12:28 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (Photo: AP)

World on edge, but talks with Kim vital

The US President's rhetoric has also risen in direct proportion to the scale of Kim's insouciance.

5 Sept 2017 1:02 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

BJP's allies are left out

It's obvious that Bihar's JD(U) government will fall if the BJP withdraws support to it, but the reverse is not true at...

5 Sept 2017 12:58 AM IST

Police detain members of the Radical Students Youth Front (RSYF) during protest over the suicide of a 17-year-old girl who had moved the Supreme Court against NEET- based medical examinations, in Chennai. (Photo: PTI)

Questions about Neet

NEET was thrust upon Tamil Nadu from this academic year by a Supreme Court ruling.

4 Sept 2017 12:37 AM IST

President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi poses with new members of cabinet after the reshuffle at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

After reshuffle, Centre must be energised

This reshuffle is meant to propel the government to safety as it approaches the next Lok Sabha election.

4 Sept 2017 12:28 AM IST