Nirupama Subramanian is National Editor (Strategic Affairs). She writes on India’s foreign policy and national security issues.

July 12, 2017 02:48 IST
How much more sensible, and sensitive it would have been, back in 2014, to tell the families the limits of the possibilities? By now, they would probably be coming to terms with the inevitable, instead of excitedly Googling up images of the church in which the External Affairs minister told the families, the 39 men may have been seen
Wed, Jul 12, 2017
July 09, 2017 16:21 IST
The deaths and injuries of civilians in the clashes between protestors and security forces have added more martyrs to the story of the “Kashmiri cause”. Those on the streets shout for `azaadi’, but talk about `shahadat’ in the name of Islam as a goal in itself.
Sun, Jul 09, 2017
June 26, 2017 10:33 IST
Mohammed Ayub’s killing in Kashmir has kindled a sense of shame in the community; but the ghastly silence over 15-year-old Junaid Khan’s murder is a national outrage.
Wed, Jun 28, 2017
June 12, 2017 19:28 IST
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj may not want to be the harbinger of bad news, but it would be more honest if she and the MEA told the truth about the reality in Mosul
Mon, Jun 12, 2017
June 12, 2017 03:46 IST
CHD is an architectural travel guide, literally a brick-and-mortar history of the city, and it was published by a Spanish architect who made Chandigarh her home five years ago.
Mon, Jun 12, 2017
June 05, 2017 14:45 IST
'Lo ban gaya Khalistan, for two hours' says SGPC official, crediting the State for allowing a pressure-cooker release of anger and outrage
Mon, Jun 05, 2017
May 26, 2017 02:24 IST
Maj Gogoi says Dar was instigating a mob that was throwing stones to discourage people from voting, and was attacking election officials.
Fri, May 26, 2017
May 23, 2017 01:11 IST
The countries describe their friendship as being ‘higher than the mountains, deeper than the oceans, sweeter than honey’.
Tue, May 23, 2017
May 12, 2017 00:42 IST
Let the land of Buddha’s birth not turn its back on his wisdom, even as it preaches it to others in Sri Lanka.
Fri, May 12, 2017
May 11, 2017 18:04 IST
PM Modi will also travel to the Dalada Maligawa, the Temple of the Tooth Relic, in Kandy.
Thu, May 11, 2017
April 26, 2017 00:45 IST
Wickremesinghe in Delhi; long dormant agreement to develop Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm likely to be revived today.
Wed, Apr 26, 2017
April 23, 2017 03:39 IST
After the stones are flung and slogans chanted, where does the average Kashmiri student head? To depoliticised campuses, where, like many their age, they watch TV soaps and read – but not before holding heated debates on identity, Kashmir.
Tue, Jun 26, 2018
April 17, 2017 05:24 IST
The process will require online news portals and agencies to register with DMs
Mon, Apr 17, 2017
April 16, 2017 05:14 IST
Six days after the parliamentary poll, it’s raining videos, almost one every three or four hours.
Sun, Apr 16, 2017
April 15, 2017 03:58 IST
CM seeks police report, Army probes video; 3 held for assault on CRPF men.
Sat, Apr 15, 2017
April 14, 2017 05:24 IST
Srinagar repoll: J-K’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Shantmanu said that only 709 votes were polled in the booths that went for re-poll.
Fri, Apr 14, 2017
April 13, 2017 03:31 IST
The village is in mourning for him and for 17-year-old Mohammed Abbas.
Thu, Apr 13, 2017
April 11, 2017 01:26 IST
Jammu and Kashmir bypoll: Delhi has interpreted high turnouts as rejection of azadi sentiment; Kashmiris, by contrast, have seen voting as a way to negotiate for basic necessities.
Tue, Apr 11, 2017
March 27, 2017 05:15 IST
Some say this is just for show but what AAP started is setting the trend. Amarinder switched red-lights off, others want to follow
Mon, Mar 27, 2017
March 12, 2017 02:23 IST
Rahul Gandhi resisted naming him the Chief Minister candidate until days before the vote, and there were efforts until the end to undermine his leadership.
Sun, Mar 12, 2017
February 20, 2017 01:16 IST
The last of the conspirators, bombmaker Inderjit Singh Reyat, walked free on February 16, with no criminal responsibility fixed for what a Canadian judge called ‘the largest mass murder’ in the country’s history.
Mon, Feb 20, 2017
February 19, 2017 04:00 IST
In the cheering and applauding audience are hundreds of women, heads and faces veiled, sitting on dhurries placed on the uneven ground.
Sun, Feb 19, 2017
February 04, 2017 04:59 IST
Fighting for a third term and versus first-time AAP, Akalis have back to the wall
Sat, Feb 04, 2017
January 24, 2017 00:00 IST
At Marina, an ‘apolitical’ protest and an unresisting government short-circuit due process.
Tue, Jan 24, 2017
December 12, 2016 02:51 IST
"Amma is irreplaceable,” says Selvi, an AIADMK women’s wing worker from Erode, her head covered in a white scarf with the red-white-black AIADMK border as she rests on a grassy patch at the memorial.
Tue, Feb 07, 2017



