Scattered Sindhi society
The small and dispersed community has lacked political representation since the Partition. A Constitutional amendment could give them a non-territorially linked seat in the Lok Sabha It seems to be the end of the road for veteran politician Lal Krishna Advani as his party denied him ticket for the Lok...
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Sri Lanka post ISIS caliphate
05 May 2019 | Swarn Kumar Anand -
Unveiling some truths
04 May 2019 | Pioneer -
Genuine scores?
04 May 2019 | Pioneer -
An evolving democracy
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Closing the web
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Azhar nailed, finally
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Selective amnesia
03 May 2019 | Ajoy Kumar
In TinTin’s footsteps
Did an Indian Army expedition team indeed spot the mythical creature’s imprints? The Indian Army posted a strange update on its Twitter handle recently where it claimed that an Army mountaineering team in Nepal, which was scaling Mount Makalu south-east of Everest, found some large footprints. These impressions, measuring 32 inches...
Over to the justices
Woman alleging sexual harassment against CJI walks out of inquiry, fuels more speculation The sexual harassment allegations against Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi by a former Supreme Court staffer turned murkier when she withdrew from a three-judge panel looking into the case, citing procedural flaws that she felt...
Pak’s failed Iran gambit
Neither is the Ashraf Ghani regime in Kabul a Shia-centric dispensation, nor does India have a commonality of religious denomination. Yet both inspire more trust among Iranians As a nation, Pakistan has had a historically unsettled and restive relationship with all three neighbouring countries that touch its land borders ie,...
End of an era
Japan's Emperor Akihito is abdicating his throne, the first one to do so in two centuries, in a major culture shift The Japanese monarchy is the oldest continuing hereditary royal line in the world. Some legends date it back to 600 BC and as the sun rose over Japan today,...
Modi goes overboard
The PM’s boast of having 40 TMC MLAs in BJP’s kitty amounts to an endorsement of horse-trading Frankly, outrageous statements made by political leaders during the ongoing Lok Sabha election are such a flood that temperance is more an exception than the rule. And though the Election Commission (EC) has...
Modernist vanguards
As we gear up for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in 2020, young people must lead from the front to take on climate change challenges Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 each year. But few people understand the conditions under which this major initiative was introduced in 1970...
Preparing for cyber war
Conventional warfare isn’t going anywhere but it doesn’t take a genius to realise that future wars will be waged by hackers Reports have emerged that the Indian armed forces will undertake a major cyber security exercise this week and this might be the first step in creating a much-needed and unified...
