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For many Bangladeshis, they hint at closure for 1971.

Delhi HC was right to force oversight on the Delhi cricket administration.

Farmers tend to lose out irrespective of whether crop prices go up or down. Government needs to rectify this.

For India, a unified Southeast Asian market represents special opportunities — and challenges.

On December 2, 2014, Murugan returned home to Namakkal, after spending a month at the Sangam writers’ residency programme.

On Indian peacekeeping abroad, Samantha Power shows some deft diplomacy.

Opposition victory gives Argentina a shot at change. But it will be a long, hard haul.

Unless government engages Opposition, Parliament will be about ordinances and obstruction.

As countries ranging from Britain to Brunei and Tanzania to Tajikistan jumped on Xi’s Silk Road bandwagon, Japan, the other Asian giant and the world’s third-largest economy, watched warily.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s response to yet another cow row shows the way.

Tipu Sultan, who inherited his suzerainty of the kingdom of Mysore from his adventurer father, Hyder Ali, lived and died during a time very different from our own.

But no past political master can match our present PM, Narendra Modi, in coining new slogans and catching the imagination of the masses.

Much of this is from merging the inflation-neutralising dearness allowance of 125 per cent (Rs 8,750) with the basic pay.

Within a government, ministers are expected to convey opinions on policy proposals. A second channel is through public representatives (the members of Parliament).

Every day of the 2015 monsoon session, we witnessed the chairperson of the Rajya Sabha helplessly pleading with MPs to discharge their responsibilities and maintain the decorum of the House.

Whatever Manmohan Singh might have wanted in the matter of making a breakthrough with a visit to Pakistan, someone should share with Akbar the BJP’s official position.

Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon was sworn in before Parliament in Madrid as King Juan Carlos I, restoring monarchy to Spain after 44 years.

There is a Facebook page as well as a Twitter account (with close to seven lakh followers). Yet, what substantive work the Aayog does is not really known.

On Saturday, November 14, Daesh (the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State) claimed responsibility for the attacks on the French capital, indicating that they would be the “first of the storm”.

After all,there have been terrorist attacks on the West since mid-1990s, if not since the Munich Olympics of 1972. What is different now?

It hardly needs stating, also, that the Islamist terrorists are as brutal to those Muslims who aren’t of a hardline Salafi creed as they are to non-Muslim infidels.

An old adversary of Modi, Sanjay Joshi, is also beginning to flex his muscles. Joshi, an RSS pracharak, was once a power to reckon with in the party, but was eased out of the BJP

The truth is that jihadi terrorism has everything to do with Islam for those who think of the time of the Prophet as a blessed time that Muslims must return to.

The tell-tale sign is the flat growth rate: 7.3 per cent in 2014-15, 7.0 per cent in Q1 of 2015-16, and the forecast of 7.3 per cent for the whole of 2015-16.

First they came for his amorous pursuits. Next they’ll come for his martini.