Commonwealth Games has given India many new champions to follow.

The government has now completed nearly four years in office, presented five budgets and used up all the opportunity available to it to show results.

Pakistan Supreme Court verdict on Nawaz Sharif undermines gains made in institutionalising democracy.

How truth has been obscured in the narratives on chemical weapons in Syria.

Ram Kumar’s abstract art symbolised the journey of an artist who pursued silence.

PM Modi’s meeting with the region’s leaders could end India’s neglect of a part of the world that has punched above its weight in diplomacy.

Ram Kumar’s art believed in the endless generation of life against death.

Bankers’ demands for accounting forbearance are dangerous and self-serving.

Rising crude prices are cause for concern. But they don’t warrant going back on deregulation, forcing OMCs to absorb losses.

Strikes on Syria raise questions of legitimacy of force, underline renewed great power rivalry, while a brutal civil war unfolds.

In Jammu, the rape of a girl has become an issue of rivalry between communities, with lawyers obstructing the investigation. It is as if the horrendous shock of the Nirbhaya episode and the powerful reaction of men and women from around the world were in vain.

In the present system, there is only rote book knowledge with the objective to get marks in examinations. There is no focus on practical knowledge. Reform of the system should ensure all-round creative learning.

One other group of Indians remained unmoved by what happened to the little girl. Hindutva hyper-nationalists. Their voice has got louder, angrier and uglier in the past three years, and especially on social media.

Towards the end of the last Parliament session, the Congress appeared at the forefront of the Opposition move to bring an impeachment motion against Chief Justice Dipak Misra.

The fire that was lit by the Terms of Reference of the XV Finance Commission will not be doused by specious arguments pitting ‘populous and poorer states’ against ‘diligent and developed’ states. All states have poverty and developmental deficiencies.

Mark Zuckerberg sat tall in his blue suit at the hearing and, thanks to Congressional ignorance, saved the day for Facebook

Panchayat poll process in West Bengal reflects the unchanged and unaddressed distortions in the state’s political culture

PM has promised justice. Now his party needs to work with partner PDP to address the darkness in Kathua

Pakistan’s free fall continues under politicians, judges who represent state’s dark side

Any reform of the judicial system will have to come from within the court

E N Rammohan will be remembered as a strong, compassionate leader of CRPF, BSF

In Kathua and Unnao, just blaming politicians is another way of exonerating ourselves

Reduction of the event and its horror to an epithet carries the danger that its many lessons and warnings will be unheeded

CJI Misra’s position as master of roster is underlined. Now he must attend to issues of, and threats to, judicial independence