Two stories of two families for the nation to carry into the new year.

Let’s reclaim a realism about nature and self that our frenzied pursuit of enmities and ends is obscuring.

2018 promises to be a long poll season, leading up to the 2019 election. The rancour that marked 2017 must be left behind.

Twelve months on, there has been no nuclear war between the US and North Korea.

Elections to the prestigious RK Nagar seat, once represented by the late Jayalalithaa, were countermanded twice since cash running into tens of crores was recovered during the campaign.

Things that must happen, at least in BJP states, if Narendra Modi is to once more make parivartan and vikas his leitmotif in the general election in 2019

The year 2017, to which we bid goodbye today, was replete with bizarre statements.

Leaked contents of General Bajwa’s meeting with senators help Pakistan army’s image

Indian Administrative Services can lead the charge. If it reinvents itself, its effects will ripple through the system, galvanise change.

There was continuing violation of the policy of parallel use of Hindi and English for communications to non-Hindi speaking states, and certain remarks of Janata leaders had created an impression that the language policy accepted by the country in 1965 would be altered, it said.

Triple talaq bill passed by Lok Sabha goes against spirit of SC verdict. Rajya Sabha must debate it thoroughly, make amends

Rahul Gandhi’s tweet hurts government-opposition truce, undermines his own party’s position in Parliament

From football star to nation’s leader, it’s a fairy tale to celebrate and draw inspiration from

Improve security in Northeast to improve connectivity with South East Asia

Israel declared that its forces must stay on the west bank of the river Jordan, but Egypt urged the Jewish state to re-think its whole strategy for peace in West Asia.

It is vital that the highest standards of criminal justice are rigorously applied. Much is at stake in the case

South Delhi corporation’s proposal to ban public display of non-veg food smacks of prejudice, threatens freedoms

In a ghost town in Australia, the future of fake news has been born — real fake news, not fake fake news

The triple talaq bill is a textbook case of overcriminalisation

Within hours of the statement, seven pro-Indira leaders — Kamlapati Tripathi, Syed Mir Kasim, P.V. Narasimha Rao, Veerendra Varma, Buta Singh, A.P. Sharma and Maragatham Chandrasekhar — resigned from the Congress Working Committee in protest against Devraj Urs’s suspension.

Government and Opposition are talking to each other again in Parliament. It’s a good beginning to the new year

Mumbai’s first air-conditioned suburban train is a reminder of work yet to be done on modernising urban transport systems

Tamil politics is a crowded affair. Is anyone missing Rajinikanth?

Those opposing law on triple talaq must look closer at Muslim countries