Asserting that it made little sense in a democracy to jail people for "speaking their minds", senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) member Tathagata Satpathy has said that the country's age-old defamation laws need an "urgent re-look" and maintained that he would soon move a private member's bill in the Lok Sabha to bring about much-need...
Shaila died in a Karachi hospital on the day when the army camp in Uri was attacked. Threatening war drums kept her brother, Nazim, a dear cousin of mine, from travelling for the last rites. That was the best he could have done. Forbidding paper work would have come in the way of Shaila's burial in the family graveyard in Mustafabad near Rae Bare...
The venerable sages of India, the Buddha, Jesus, Prophet Muhammad, Guru Nanak -- the founders of all major religions -- were all known to spurn material comfort and stress compassion for the weak and safeguarding nature, but not many of their followers emulated them. One who did unreservedly was this Christian saint, venerated even beyond his own s...
At a time when the chessboard of Uttar Pradesh politics had just begun to witness moves and counter-moves in the run-up to the assembly elections, Thursday's surgical strikes by the Indian Army on terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) has the potential of altering the political narrative somewhat, if not altogether, in...
During the Kargil conflict in 1999, India did not cross the Line of Control (LoC). If it has behaved differently this time, the reason is that Pakistan's reputation has nosedived in the last decade and a half....
India -- under Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- crossed the line of control in more ways than one on September 29, 2016. Posterity will be a better and truer judge, but Thursday's surgical strike by our Special Forces is a game-changer both in terms of how we view ourselves and how the world sees India....
Until five years ago, the US and China shared an almost equal proportion of Pakistans arms imports: 39 per cent and 38 per cent respectively. Today, China supplies 63 per cent of Pakistans armaments, with the US dropping to 19 per cent and second place, an IndiaSpend analysis reveals, as Pakistan mulls a response to Indias strike on ter...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to show to the people of India that he could live up to his braggadocio -- and he did so when he authorised Thursday's "surgical strikes" across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan territory to take out seven terrorist "launch pads" and causing what officials are calling "significant casualties"....
If India and Pakistan fought a war detonating 100 nuclear warheads (around half of their combined arsenal), each equivalent to a 15-kiloton Hiroshima bomb, more than 21 million people will be directly killed, about half the world's protective ozone layer would be destroyed, and a "nuclear winter" would cripple monsoons and agriculture worldwide. ...
As we enter a technology era where Next-Gen devices are launched every single day, some are bound to fail as they don't connect with consumers -- while a few will be remembered as being ahead of their time. So what exactly went wrong with two recent much-hyped devices: Google Glass and Samsung Galaxy Note 7?...
