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The alleged suicide of a 29-year-old woman in Tihar jail is condemnable. It is the second death in recent weeks in this jail in suspicious...

The terror strike in Srinagar in which five CRPF personnel were killed by fidayeens posing as cricket players is highly reprehensible and is a...

As a spate of diplomatic debacles rock India’s relations with the international community, it is worth pondering on the concerns aired by the BJP’s...

Scientists at the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in New Delhi deserve to be congratulated for having...

Francis I, Latin America’s first pontiff in history to be crowned the overseer of Vatican, has evoked mixed reactions from not only his home turf...

The Supreme Court of India is rightly vexed with the issue of the severe pollution of the river Yamuna. The authorities seem to have let the country...

It is shocking that Italy has decided not to return its two marines to India where they were being tried for killing two Indian fishermen. The two...

John Donne, the 17th century court poet of Jacobean England, had conquered death, it is said, by reflecting on its ultimate power through his immortal...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Narendra Modi’s insistence on good governance is not a sham, though his emphasis on that governance being...

It is a matter of gratification that Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar has once again been chosen as the party leader by the...

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed — so said the 19th century American social reformer Frederick Douglass, and...

It is welcome news that the law ministry is ready with a draft bill to amend the Constitution for setting up a National Judicial Appointments...