Air India’s decision to serve only vegetarian meals to economy class shows a disdain for its patrons.

G-20 summit did not provide a roadmap to deal with challenges created by US withdrawal from the Paris Pact.

Iraq announces victory over IS in the city, but getting the country back on its feet will be hard. Bigger battles lie ahead.

Naresh Chandra underplayed his role in nuclear programme, economic liberalisation.

In the backdrop of the Israeli-Indian alliance are realities of occupation, suppression and misery.

West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu said in New Delhi that if the Janata government implemented the programmes listed in its election manifesto, “we will go along with them despite our differences”.

Implementation of direct benefit transfer of fertiliser subsidy should not be delayed for too long

The onus is on the Mamata Banerjee government to restore peace in the Darjeeling hills and North 24 Parganas

The re-imagined city must also be climate resilient at its core

Amid growing challenges within, India misses a modern security apparatus, strategic vision, long-term plan

A new cast is transforming Malayalam cinema. It is no more a man’s world

UP’s cycle tracks may be ill-planned, but they should be revamped, not dismantled

GST rollout is a learning process, implementation holds the key to its success

Most opposition parties, including the Congress, have conveyed their acceptance to the ruling party’s proposal to sponsor the Lok Sabha speaker for presidential election slated to take place on August 6

An Indian diplomat who offered to fund his alma mater in Lahore

But it will take an act of imaginative statesmanship to make sure that the fires of Baduria and Basirhat do not become the inferno of Bengal.

The rosogolla should not be a cause for rancour, only sweet celebrations

Trinamool, BJP must share blame for communal polarisation in West Bengal — and the responsibility to stanch tensions

PM Modi’s visit broke new ground with Israel, dehyphenated relations with Palestine

The Pakistani government was studying proposals from the Opposition for a settlement of the four-month old political crisis. Finance Minister and Pakistan People’s Party leader Abdul Hafiz Pirzada said talks between the two sides would start soon. But a spokesperson for the nine-party Pakistan National Alliance repeated the Opposition’s insistence that the proposals were final. […]

Much was gained by India and Israel, even before the two forged full diplomatic ties

In the interest of authenticity and continuity, the hottest news out of Pyongyang is always announced by Ri Chun-hee

BJP carries on — and adds to — Congress tradition of blatant politicisation of the high office

AFSPA must be repealed from states like Assam and Arunachal Pradesh where insurgent groups have been contained