The town’s destruction is humanity’s loss. Its recapture is a major blow to the Islamic State.

On several counts, India’s economy is better off since 2013. But only structural reforms can sustain growth.

On Pathankot investigation, ignore the hyper-patriotic blather. Allowing in Pak team serves India’s best interests.

It gives the BJP a mobilisational narrative to link what the RSS wants with what it can render as a holder of state power.

India must use the opportunity offered by the Nuclear Security Summit to pursue purposeful nuclear diplomacy.

He has willed himself to become a great batsman, who handles pressure with grace.

How can it meet its challenges without giving up its way of life?

Aadhaar legislation points to the need for a comprehensive privacy law.

The crisis that keeps overtaking Pakistan can only be solved by its elected government. It must step up to the task.

Pledging gold made everyone aware of the enormity of the crisis, and paved the way for economic reforms.

Low oil prices, which helped cut India’s import bill, are now affecting remittances.

To prevent another Brussels, the world must change its perception of Muslims.

The invoking of Article 356 in Uttarakhand goes against the grain of democratic and federal principles.

The professor allegedly told a crowd of students that India forcibly annexed autonomous regions such as Manipur and Nagaland and that 30-40 per cent of India is under military rule.

India and Pakistan provincialised their Kashmirs without consulting the people who live there.

Gandhi said the government needed the cooperation of the newspapers “in putting our system back on the rails”.

The RERA aims at bringing cheer to the buyers of property, by providing a framework for reducing conflict with developers, and creates a regulatory authority for this sector.

If this bill with far-reaching implications for rights, accountability and the powers of the state is a money bill, then practically any legislation can be converted into a money bill.

Johan Cruyff, the “Flying Dutchman” who died in Barcelona on Thursday at 68, changed football in more ways than imaginable for an individual.

The number of arhtiya suicides may not be anywhere close to those by farmers, but they do suggest a certain trend. When prices of commodities, be it basmati rice or cotton, were good, farmers planted with gusto.

Maharashtra’s public health minister is the chairman of an eye hospital, while a minister of state for housing is on the board of a construction firm — making these most amenable for abuse of official position.

Impeachment motion against Dilma Rousseff is just one strand of the upheaval.

Europe’s jihad crisis is not a problem of its Muslim communities but the outcome of cultural dislocations.

Arrest of a Chhattisgarh journalist for sharing a WhatsApp message is part of a growing trend of muzzling dissent.