... and a different government in India — that’s what Pakistan didn’t realise until yesterday

Japan formally informed the Soviet Union that it would return the MIG-21 super fighter a Russian pilot had landed in northern Japan 23 days ago.

Middle East peace process is far from complete. But Shimon Peres's contribution to it will be remembered.

Shouldn’t the weekly off day be a matter of choice, instead of being dictated by law?

Let’s not allow debate about what it means to be Indian to be held hostage to jingoists and bigots.

Not attending SAARC signals India’s anger, sends out a firm message, without closing any important doors.

Law and justice may still prove elusive, but powerful new voices are transforming Dalit politics.

A look at the Express front page 40 years ago today.

Preventive detention is being routinised as an instrument of state repression

The power struggle within weakens a party already undergoing an identity crisis in UP

With Hillary-Trump, US presidential TV debate goes from blockbuster to blah

Controversy over encroachment drive in Kaziranga threatens to obscure pressing ecological problems

Sushma Swaraj delivered her message at the UNGA effectively, without hyperbole

CM Sheikh Abdullah said the allegation made in some quarters that he was flirting with the Jana Sangh and the RSS was “ridiculous”.

India urgently wants sporting greatness — but its desire is fraught with dangers.

Any response to Uri must factor in the Pakistani state’s relationship with non-state actors.

Colombia’s communist rebellion finishes — after a holy brush.

MNS threatens Pakistani actors. Supine governments allow it to get away with its xenophobic politics.

India does well to stop dithering on Paris accord. This could begin a new phase in its climate change diplomacy.

Phenomenon of the non-academic VC is part of a wider crisis of the university.

Maximalist positions and court battles can’t help resolve festering inter-state river disputes.

Loud jingoism and war talk erode India’s credibility, distract government from urgent task at hand.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the stage at the public rally in Kozhikode on Saturday to break his silence on Uri, it was a moment set in a clamorous context. The backdrop was made up of the hardening and coarsening of public-political debate since the attack in which 19 Indian soldiers lost their lives. […]

After ruffling feathers in the Congress with his The Accidental Prime Minister, in which he claimed that Manmohan Singh as prime minister had played second fiddle to Sonia Gandhi, author Sanjaya Baru is set for an encore.