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End the impasse
25 Aug 2016 2:42 AM ISTIn response to repeated salvos from Chief Justice TS Thakur over the delay in judges’ appointments, the Centre last week said it was not responsible...
Presenting a united front
24 Aug 2016 2:50 AM ISTThe NDA government has done little to protect the idea of “cooperative federalism”, despite espousing it on a number of occasions. On Saturday, West...
Presenting a united front
24 Aug 2016 2:48 AM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed his “deep concern and pain” over the situation in Kashmir and asked all political parties to work...
Man of the establishment
23 Aug 2016 2:50 AM ISTThe long wait is finally over. On Saturday, the government appointed eminent economist and banker Urjit Patel to replace Raghuram Rajan as the new...
Course correction?
21 Aug 2016 4:17 AM ISTAddressing Bhartiya Janata Party workers on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that the party should never forsake its ideology. “If we...
Sindhu’s glory moment
21 Aug 2016 4:16 AM ISTThe inability of Indian athletes to secure medals at the ongoing Rio Olympics had become a source of much derision among their supporters. Not...
Prohibition
20 Aug 2016 3:58 AM ISTAt least 13 locals from Bihar’s Gopalganj district died within hours of each other after allegedly drinking spurious country-made liquor. Relatives of...
Inconsistencies and Sedition
20 Aug 2016 3:57 AM ISTEarlier this week, Amnesty International’s Bangalore unit was booked on sedition charges for an event they organised highlighting human rights abuses...
Incompetence in the Valley
19 Aug 2016 4:21 AM ISTIt has been more than five weeks since the current unrest broke out in the Kashmir Valley. On Tuesday, the Central Reserve Paramilitary Force (CRPF)...
Change in policy on I-Day
18 Aug 2016 3:06 AM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address made repeated references to the role played by the NDA government in achieving India’s...
Major changes
16 Aug 2016 2:24 AM ISTIn a major development, the Central Board of Film Certification is likely to lose its ‘censoring’ powers and will be left only with the authority to...
New strategy
16 Aug 2016 2:23 AM ISTIn a significant development on Saturday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, during which...

