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I am apparently one of the few Indians not excited or moved by the events of last week. I am referring to our attack on Pakistan, and then their response the next day, and then the drama with the Air Force pilot for two days...

The morning of 26 February 2019 was surely special for most Indians. Reeling under the pain and humiliation of the Pulwama terror attack, the average citizen was growing a sense of despondency and helplessness. The feeling was gaining ground that the Indian armed forces are...

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is in the final year of his governance. He’s threatening a fast from 01 March to press for the long-pending demand for full statehood for Delhi. This is in the context of the several constraints his government has been facing...

The PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme has been launched with much fanfare and even more rhetoric for accompaniment from Gorakhpur. But fact remains that the majority of states in the country are yet to provide their lists of beneficiaries for the scheme because land records...

India is scheduled to play against Pakistan in the World Cup at Old Trafford, Manchester, June 16. This will be our fourth match of the World Cup. Each of the 10 teams plays the other nine teams once in the first round. The four teams...

A day after the Pulwama attack, an angry India revoked the most favoured nation (MFN) status from Pakistan. It was the first in a series of diplomatic offensives targeted at the neighbouring country to isolate it economically and diplomatically. Granting of MFN to Pakistan or...

Nutrition of children, too, appears to now have become a subject of politics in the country. A research scholar from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences has pointed out in an article on 'The Wire' that children in schools and anganwadis covered by mid-day meal...

Kashmir saw more upsets and bloodletting Monday, 18 February. An army Major was among four soldiers killed in another encounter with a small gang of terrorists holed up in Pinglan, some 10km from the scene of the February 14 suicide bomb attack on a CRPF...

US president Donald Trump has declared a National Emergency in his country, which, if not anything else, shows his honey badger-like persistence in putting his plans to action. There is much opposition to his various moves, as several sections are convinced that the situation in...

Jaish-e-Muhammad means army of Muhammad. This is strange because the Prophet of Islam had no ambitions of conquest. Arab expansion began under the Caliphs, particularly Umar, after Muhammad’s death. The Jaish is a Pakistani entity and its recruits are mostly rural Punjabis. It is much...