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The controversy over the educational status of the new human resource development minister Smriti Irani has taken a wrong turn. The questions that are...

When Maya Angelou wrote I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings in 1970, it was not just an international literary sensation, a best-seller, but also a...

The days of ‘non-alignment’, it seems, are over. The time instead has come for strategic realignments, indeed bolstering of South Asian Association...

It is perhaps history’s unbearable irony that Narendra Modi, India’s 15th Prime Minister, was sworn in exactly a day before the world marked 50 years...

Now that the star-studded ceremony that crowned Narendra Modi the 15th Prime Minister of Republic of India is finally over, a look at the slimmer and...

Even as one of the most spectacular swearing-in ceremonies unfolded in the heart of the national capital, over 40 innocents lost their lives in an...

When Dharmvati, the widow of Indian jawan Hemraj, who was beheaded by Pakistani soldiers at the Line of Control in January last year, condemns the...

Even as the horrific list of gun massacres and school shootings goes on accruing more menacing tally, the National Rifle Association, America’s...

The latest coup d’état to ground normal life in Thailand isn’t all that unexpected a development. In fact, tensions have been simmering underneath the...

Can an arch-ironist be ironised? Evidently. @RushdieExplains, a Twitter handle that parodies Salman Rushdie, himself the harbinger of postmodern...

Some social media platforms and websites have run a story on an American satire show by Jon Stewart where correspondent Jason Jones reports on a fake...

The Election Commission’s communication to Supreme Court – that it is against ward-wise declaration of vote count in polls as per the current norm and...