It was the time when ULFA was emerging; a difficult period. The people of Assam were living amid fire. Soon after, the process of surrenders began. Those who had surrendered came to be known as SULFA (S for surrendered).

Never before has a senior police officer been beaten to death in the way that Deputy Superintendent of Police Mohammed Ayub Pandith was outside Srinagar’s most important mosque last week. It really is time for Jammu Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti to be sacked.

We are inheritors of a sound economy, on the verge of higher growth, and we have to live up to the high standard of a few years ago. We cannot encourage high tax rates or high handed tax administration, for no nation can have a vibrant economy whose tax laws and tax administration are narrow in thought or application.

The issue is not only the parachuting of consulting firms and vendors for local IT and infrastructure solutions, but that such private partnerships would necessitate a return on investments unconstrained by concerns of social equity or justice. The abolition of octroi, the once largest source of municipal revenue for many cities, has had a debilitating impact on the fiscal sovereignty of urban local bodies.

The Sheikh reacted sharply to Charan Singh’s charge that the National Conference was to blame for the acts of lawlessness in Kashmir.

Ireland and Afghanistan earn their Test flannels. More will be merrier.

The lynching of police officer Mohammad Ayub Pandit speaks of the several grave breakdowns in Kashmir.

For most among us, faith would be bigger than science but faith masquerading as science is what we should all be wary of.

PM Modi’s US visit is a time for India to revisit fundamentals of diplomacy: Power flows from the sum of a state’s capacities.

It is back because of rural-urban disparity. It draws attention to a contradiction in Hindutva worldview.

Union Law Minister Shanti Bhushan told the Lok Sabha that there was no proposal before the Election Commission to postpone the assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir.

Internet has become a recruitment ground for terror. Global action is needed

India needs to be more liberal and internationalist, and worry less about what the US president thinks of it

Daniel Day-Lewis is a mystery to be grateful for — known largely through his performances.

Farmers need better price realisations, not blanket waivers

Opposition’s presidential candidate Meira Kumar is let down by her own side.

There will be awkward moments but India’s PM could return as a legitimate climate superhero

By sweeping parliamentary polls, French president seals his mandate. Now, he will need to build a social coalition

While Devi Lal in Haryana, Nilamony Rautray in Orissa and Kailash Chandra Joshi were elected unopposed, leaders in Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan had to take the secret ballot.

It’s time policymakers outlined a coherent growth path for the economy.

Kumble exits, leaves behind questions: Why was cricket board caught unawares? How can it prevent a replay in future?

There is rich symbolism in a Dalit president. But government, opposition must also stop turning their back on Dalit issues.

Carrying and storing of weapons, stones, brickbats and missiles have been banned throughout the Kashmir Valley for a period of three months.

L K Advani would have been the most fitting Sangh Parivar choice for the post.