The govt must signal its threshold for use of tactical nuclear weapons. Below this threshold, the military differential is irrelevant to secure borders.
Hindi and English news channels replayed Atiq Ahmed’s murder on live TV for over 72 hours, in slow-motion shots too. Nothing was blurred, except perhaps the line of decency.
Rahul Gandhi's Kolar speech wasn't a momentary reflex. Congress is looking to recover lost ground and be the favourite party of poor, Dalits, Adivasis, and Muslims again.
The public has lost faith in the ability of the legal system. It is convinced that because powerful criminals will never face justice, it is easier and quicker to bump them off.
Exceptions that might be justified in the small wars of Punjab, Kashmir have become part of the normal fabric of policing. The emergency has become the everyday.
Imagine, playing an online card game online and paying 28 per cent GST on each buy-in. Such a tax regime would defeat the purpose of enabling IT Rules.
China’s ambitions to restart business as usual hinges on their ability to manage increasingly fraught relations with the US, Europe, and the rest of the world.
Move to bring down differences in commodity prices with neighbouring states, says government. Oppn, dealers blame it on welfare, Congress's guarantees.
Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.
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