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March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…
Srinagar: A man carrying his son in laps as he holding a placard during a protest march against the petitions in Supreme court challenging the validity of Article 35A, in Srinagar on Thursday, August 30, 2018. Life in Kashmir came to a standstill due to a complete shutdown called by Joint Hurriyat Leadership against the legal challenge in the Supreme Court on the validity of Article 35A, which bars people from outside Jammu and Kashmir from acquiring any immovable property in the state. PTI Photo by Umar Ganie

It’s an anomaly

By Ranjan Kashmir is boiling over Article 35A, the constitutionality of which is under attack. The Supreme Court is set to adjudicate on whether it is violative of the basic structure of…
September 1, 2018

Inventing the Urban Naxal

By Ashutosh Bhardwaj In 1964, the USSR convicted Joseph Brodsky for writing poems and being a “social parasite”. The judge recorded that “Brodsky has systematically failed to fulfill the obligations of a…
September 1, 2018

Worse than Emergency

By Prashant Bhushan The Maharashtra Police arrested some of India’s finest human rights activists from five cities across the country on completely fabricated charges under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention…
September 1, 2018
Quaid e Azam reading “Dawn”. (Q-119) C

Was Jinnah wrong?

By Zubeida Mustafa MANY who listened to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s maiden speech on Aug 19 would not have failed to note the striking similarities in his address and the Quaid-i-Azam’s oft-quoted…
September 1, 2018

The Paragon of Mercy in the Quranic Light

By Ghulam Ghaus Siddiqi Allah Almighty has sent the last prophet Muhammad as a mercy to all worlds. The teachings of Islam that the beloved Prophet brought are entirely based on mercy,…
August 31, 2018

Synchronize with the Will of Allah

By Mansoor Alam Allah’s Law of creation is that whenever He wills something, the process of its creation starts right away (36:82). That is, Allah’s Will is the fountainhead of creative power,…
August 31, 2018

The crackdown on civil society

By Neera Chandhoke It is a truth universally acknowledged that the modern democratic state, armed with technologies of surveillance and control, possesses the kind of power that has never ever been exercised…
August 31, 2018

Are We Indians, Or Just Muslims

By SEEMA MUSTAFA This is a question that everyone has to ask themselves. Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he keeps silent about the assault and attacks on Muslims across the country, the…
August 31, 2018
**FILE** New Delhi: In this Sept 23, 1998, file photo former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is seen with the then Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at a meeting in New York, USA. Vajpayee, 93, passed away on Thursday, Aug 16, 2018, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi after a prolonged illness. (PTI Photo) (PTI8_16_2018_000235B) *** Local Caption ***

The real story behind Vajpayee’s bus trip to Lahore

By Shekhar Gupta As Imran Khan took over as prime minister of Pakistan — even as the 30th anniversary of General Zia-ul Haq’s death is being observed — it should be ideal…
August 30, 2018
President Donald Trump smiles as he speaks before hosting a lunch with Senate Republicans in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Doomsday Clock on Trump’s presidency leaps forward

By Bruce Fein President Donald Trump’s long-serving personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to twin federal election law offences directly implicating the President. Cohen’s statements set the foundation for the United States…
August 30, 2018
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