August 2, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Five persons were killed and 70 injured when the police opened fire on a violent mob in Srinagar.

Italy took its fencing defeat at the Olympics poorly. The Chinese territory retaliated by hitting out at Italy’s proud culinary tradition — boasting about enjoying pizza with pineapple and pasta with soy

The committee is shifting focus from being solely fixated on inflation to being ‘attentive to the risks to both sides of its dual mandate’ — inflation and employment

Apex court expands constitutional guarantee of equality. Now politics has to mediate the effects on the ground

It affirms the long-standing requirement of evidence-based policies of social justice

It may not be the staffing solution that HR managers believe it to be.

Assassination of Hamas leader, airstrike in Beirut, make ceasefire between Israel and Hamas all the more distant

It is a warning of the perils of ignoring ecology and science in development planning

August 1, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Salman Rushdie has expressed “sincere apologies” to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for the passage he wrote concerning her and her family in his award-winning book Midnight’s Children.

Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, 2024, complements efforts to address root causes of Naxalism

In light of the heart-wrenching stories one is hearing from Wayanad today, it is perhaps time to not just rebuild, but build better

The acting Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Adarsh Sein Anand held that the 13 ministers of the State Government led by G M Shah have not incurred disqualification from the state Assembly under the Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Defection Law.

As India becomes an ageing society, significant gaps in access to pensions, health services and social care for older persons need to be addressed

By adding 3,200 new words including ‘the ick’, ‘boop’, ‘chef’s kiss’, it has decided that at the very least, these terms have ‘staying power’ or longevity

Old Rajinder Nagar incident points to a culture of pervasive civic irregularities that thrives on vulnerabilities of the desperate and middle class complicities

Its primary concern is to secure the interests of its citizens. But its backing “territorial integrity” is not merely paying lip service: It is a matter of principle on the boundaries with Pakistan and China as much as it is in Europe

Above average rainfall, as in Maharashtra, is here to stay. India's cities need to learn from global experience to check flooding

The success of India's first female shooting medalist caps an inspirational story of pushback against odds.

He taught us that modernisation was not the be-all and end-all of political life, that political scientists have much to learn from anthropology and history

July 30, 1984, Forty Years Ago: With bugles blaring and athletes marching in national costumes, President Ronald Reagan opened the 23rd Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Given the fractious nature of politics between the Centre and states, and among states, it is not hard to see why Justice Nagarathna's dissenting note cautioned that this verdict may lead to the ‘breakdown of the federal system’ in the context of mineral development

Whatever happens in November, Kamala Harris’s place at the top of the presidential ticket is a celebration of American and Indian plurality, both of which, at this moment, are fighting against forces that attempt to condense and abbreviate them

July 29, 1984, Forty Years Ago: The veteran Sikh religious leader, Baba Kharak Singh, announced his willingness to undertake kar seva in the Golden Temple complex and drew a retort from the Nihang chief, Baba Santa Singh, who said this could precipitate a confrontation.

Twenty-five years after Kargil, reforms of India’s national security system are still too incremental and tentative