After the washout of the Budget session earlier this year, the ensuing Monsoon session of the Parliament is expected to ensure normal business. But the hope is being belied in the manner the...
2018-07-20 15:07:58.0
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It is hardly surprising that former US President Barack Obama would mount a passionate defence of democracy and warn against the rise of "strongman politics", as he did in a speech in South Africa...
2018-07-20 15:07:09.0
Very few British Prime ministers have landed themselves in the sort of predicament Theresa May has. At one point of time, when the Tories had a good majority under Prime Minister David Cameron, she...
2018-07-19 17:37:05.0
Going by media reports, rape is one of the most prevalent crimes in India. Shocking details of rape keep emerging from various parts of the country at a disturbingly high frequency. From minors of...
2018-07-19 17:36:37.0
Are there any potential Nelson Mandelas in this generation? As Mandela's centenary is being celebrated, the question hangs in the continental air. Of course, to be sure, it is a question of global...
2018-07-18 16:48:10.0
On Wednesday, the 18-day long Monsoon session of Parliament kicked off amid rising uncertainties over its productivity. In the face of an unending logjam between the ruling party and the opposition,...
2018-07-18 16:47:05.0
Political parties are in a rush to give a formal shape to their tie-up with other parties in view of the state Assembly elections in three BJP-ruled states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and...
2018-07-17 16:05:00.0
For the "leader of the free world", Donald Trump, who had earlier behaved with a bull in a china shop attitude at the NATO Summit and then in the UK, it was a strange case of capitulating and...
2018-07-17 15:59:45.0
India's population count is around 1.3 billion. The national GDP is close to $2.6 trillion. India, the world's sixth-largest economy, is growing at well over 7 per cent. Big spenders number nearly...
2018-07-16 15:28:38.0
A global trade war has broken out. The United States fired the first salvo and there has been retaliation by the European Union, Canada, China and even India. Tariffs on certain imported goods have...
2018-07-16 15:26:17.0
The culture of scams being committed by top political leaders and their family members alongside delayed justice amounting to negating the very purpose of seeking a court's intervention is not new in...
2018-07-16 15:22:14.0
Anyone following the World Cup would have understood at the elimination stage that France stood out as the clear favourites. True, there were 15 other teams that had qualified for the knockout...
2018-07-16 15:06:59.0
