Pak army chief Raheel Sharif rules out an extension. But is the general’s decision a precedent that will endure?

The decision to clamp presidential rule on Tamil Nadu was taken by the Union cabinet on the basis of the governor’s report and what the presidential proclamation described as “other information” reaching the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

New estimates demand a more nuanced understanding of economic activity

The problem in the state is as much about politics as about procedures and institutional norms

India’s education system is terribly out of step with the times

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The Antipode gives fresh impetus to the race to the edge of space.

Easwar Committee report underlines the challenge: tax regime must be made simpler, more friendly to taxpayers.

BJP’s announcement of a chief ministerial candidate in Assam represents a strategic rethink. It could also be an opportunity.

Odd-even policy took on pollution. Now address congestion.

Equality before law must be accompanied by equality in social practices and in the eyes of god.

Pras Spins A Win Off-spinner Erapalli Prasanna, with career best figures of 8 for 76, bowled India to a magnificent eight-wicket victory over New Zealand in the Auckland cricket Test. New Zealand, resuming their second innings at 161 for two, soon crumbled in the face of some accurate spin bowling by Prasanna and Chandrashekar and […]

Denmark should remember that compassion ranks above convenience.

The Congress must ask Oommen Chandy to quit as Kerala CM to restore the party’s credibility.

Governors are expected to rise above party positions and proclivities, not to magnify them.

The Union budget needs to incentivise savings to rescue public sector banks.

Does Masood Azhar’s ‘protective custody’ reflect a new policy at the top of the Pakistan army?

Government has to take a political call on aligning small savings rates with market levels

Price spikes, production fluctuations challenge us, not insufficient food production

Questions have been raised in the past about the actions of security agencies in Manipur.

In Rabada, South Africa may have discovered the next Ntini

The prime minister did not rule out the possibility of holding early elections, although she felt that it was necessary to postpone polls in order to “put the economy on a stable basis.

Indian equity markets are turbulent due to high foreign ownership and the renminbi uncertainty

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