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Having taken some bold yet highly controversial steps in Kashmir, it was the need of time for the Modi government to lie low and allow tempers to cool down. But, the reverse seems to be happening, if defence minister Rajnath Singh’s statements in relation to...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day address to the nation Thursday, announced the decision to appoint a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). This officer, to be a five-star General, would become the single point of contact for the administration in defence matters. The...

Proof of innocence is the absence (or the elimination) of complainants. That appears to remain the mantra of powerful people accused of crimes, even heinous ones, in many an instance. The accident that the woman who alleged rape by Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the now-expelled and...

Blowing hot and cold is a game integral to international diplomacy. Granted that this has great relevance, North Korea has been taking it too far. The latest is a new drama in a long series; the firing of a new set of short-range ballistic missiles...

The Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh took some bold decisions in less than two months of its existence. It started by doubling the salaries of sanitation and Anganwadi workers and creating a large youth volunteer force to check corruption from villages to cities....

A call for state funding of elections has been made by former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who had led two UPA governments over a span of 10 years. Notably, however, the idea arose in him while he was in the Opposition and at the...