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.

Andy Grove was the last of the pioneers who shaped the information economy.

Mehbooba-Modi meeting augurs well for Jammu and Kashmir. Its people deserve a government.

It was very different from the version that prevails on his 85th death anniversary.

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Instead of panic or peevishness, Delhi could play its own cards right, turn Nepal-China closeness to its advantage.

Raghuram Rajan asks for a new set of rules for influential central banks, flags a building concern.

Brussels will need to summon the spirit of Paris as terror tests the strength of European democracy.

That’s the Constitution, as the PM often underlines. The ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ test violates its spirit.

In Bangladesh’s diminishing democratic space, it’s not surprising a prominent editor is at the receiving end.

Obama’s historic visit to Cuba doesn’t fully reset ties, but Washington and Havana are on their way there.

The apex court has the opportunity to enforce the true Islamic law on divorce.

Congress rebellion in Uttarakhand is also a reflection of leadership failure.

This, together with negative industrial production growth for a third straight month in January, constitutes a strong macroeconomic argument for a policy rate cut deeper than the usual 25 bps.

Discipline, Mrs Gandhi said, was not regimentation but the ability to look beyond the interest of one’s group to the larger interests of the country.

Capital flight, at a rate of about $100 billion a month, threatens to deplete China’s hoard of $3.23 trillion in foreign exchange reserves in a couple of years.

This is the second time that the state Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has played this move, in what seems to be a larger game of political chess.

Last year’s was the worst, with an overall rainfall deficit of over 44 per cent during June-December relative to the average for this period.

If Supreme Court believes ‘ADM Jabalpur’ went wrong, it must review the case suo motu.