BJP’s attack on a Tamil actor, for criticism of the government in a film he stars in, is bizarre

It will be a long battle, will require multi-pronged solutions.

US Secretary of State speaks of converging interests. Delhi must focus on practical cooperation with Trump's Washington

Kerala HC warns against hate campaign on inter-faith marriages, points out that love is intertwined with freedom

Soviet chief Leonid Brezhnev was understood to have made it clear that the change of regime in Peking had not changed Moscow’s suspicions.

The old narrative about India’s Prime Minister is not dead, but a new one is emerging

The Gujarat elections should be the one worth watching. It will be the first test of the newly packaged Congress with Rahul Gandhi leading the campaign.

'I cannot recall the Prime Minister making food security a mission, nor did the government propose an alternative to the NFSA.'

If the PM is sincere about his desire to build a ‘new India’, he must sack officials who tell lies about starvation deaths and chief ministers who allow them to do this

The announcement of Rahul Gandhi’s name as Congress president could be sooner than most in the party assume.

Reddy’s statement comes in the wake of reports from certain states that Mrs Gandhi’s supporters are pressurising AICC members to sign the requisition.

Graded Response Action Plan lends urgency to Delhi’s efforts to curb pollution. But ban as policy instrument is problematic

An authoritarian, assertive China is a challenge for India. But it is premature to conclude that US will be its saviour

Corporate governance reforms must succeed. There is much at stake

Google Maps now lets you go where no man has gone before

Surveys on hunger suggest that like poverty, it is more a relative, than absolute, concept. The best policy to increase nutrition is via sanitation and clean water

US backing of the IS draws upon strategies once deployed by Pakistan

It was the latest in the series of attacks on Indian government staff in Australia, attributed to the Anand Marg.

Poll outcome offers lessons for both the victor and the vanquished

A public campaign to educate people on the framing of the living will is necessary

The #MeToo campaign allows women a rare experience of public solidarity. Hope the men are listening in

The football field is proving to be sport’s great leveller

His willingness to be won over by baubles offered by Pakistan’s generals will have significant consequences for the region

The three leaders of the Baader-Meinhof guerilla gang committed suicide in their prison cells a few hours after commandos thwarted an attempt by skyjackers to have them freed, officials in West Germany said