Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik sees a similarity with the Mumbai attack in November 2008,but former Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub said....

However,several questions need to be raised: how could Kodnani,a state cabinet minister go and stay underground?....

Taliban activities in northwest Pakistan have not abated.

Shifting the IPL abroad is tantamount to betrayal of the state,government and people.

The IPL is not merely a sporting event or business endeavour.

Was it so difficult to postpone the tournament by a few weeks? Lok Sabha elections would certainly weigh more than cricket,but an alternative could have been worked out.....

Cricket cannot be given precedence over general elections. But then,there was no need to take the IPL out of the country.....

History teaches that dividing society with an eye to power eventually invites one’s own downfall.

It is ironical that Varun Gandhi would make a hate speech when his mother,Maneka Gandhi is a champion of animal rights and his late father Sanjay,despite the reputation he earned during the Emergency,never did so....

The so-called Third Front implies danger because of the many PM aspirants. The ideal situation would be a straight fight between the Congress-led UPA and the BJP-led NDA.....

Now that the ever-disgruntled elements have herded together as Third Front,with the objective of sharing the fruits of office post-elections.....

Contesting the 2009 general elections will be an uphill task for most parties.

Notwithstanding its ideological and reputational liability,every party is exploring alliance possibilities only to keep its options open for post-poll bargaining.

The Srikrishna committee’s report on the Chennai lawyers’ agitation is at once gratifying in its candid incisiveness,as it is disturbing in its underscoring the evident deterioration.....

Every party,as well as every leader of any consequence,is trying to form winning or bargaining combinations notwithstanding public expectations or the demands of their own so-called ideology......

The main Dravida parties,the DMK and the AIADMK,choose to call the BJP “communal” or otherwise depending on their respective alliance interests....

Such panic plays into terrorists’ hands. We are a big and strong country with entrenched democratic and secular institutions.....

There’s nothing novel about terror attacks in Pakistan. However,Sri Lanka’s decision to play in Pakistan was unwise,especially when India had already cancelled its tour.

Tom Friedman’s column,‘Yes,They Could. So They Did.’ missed a key fact that would have given your readers an accurate picture of the US Mission to India’s solar energy use.

The abject surrender of the Swat valley to the Taliban has pushed Pakistan into such chaos and anarchy that any hopes of a stable,democratic and developing Pakistan are now an unattainable dream....

The anti-incumbency factor appears to be less effective now than earlier,especially in assembly polls. But Central governments have changed every time of late,except once.....

This refers to ‘Back to Lahore’ and ‘And,over in Dhaka’.

I personally believe that Slumdog is an optimistic tale. Such optimism amid dire poverty is also an Indian reality. It’s not for nothing that the movie struck a popular chord.....

Democratic processes and values must be adhered to by the elected representatives. They also ought to preserve the sanctity of the House......

The “muchness” of the SM bandwagon and Boyle mattered,as did the motley cast.