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By Sameer Ahmad Thoker Addiction is a chronic propensity that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite their harmful consequences to the addicted individual and to those around him/her. Drug abuse refers

By Vagraj Badarayan The storm generated by the ouster of three high-ranking journalists from ABP News got a further boost with the explosive claims made by PunyaPrasunBajpai, one of the three journalists

By Pratap Bhanu Mehta The political legitimacy of the Indian state in Kashmir hangs on a very slender thread. This thread is the legitimacy of the Instrument of Accession, and the negotiations

By Anjali Mehta Since it was introduced to the world in 2009, WhatsApp has become one of the more popular messaging apps with an estimated 1.5 billion users worldwide. It was acquired

By Syed Abul Ala Maududi Hajj, or the Pilgrimage, is the last among those acts of Worship, which Islam enjoins upon you. Like the prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving, it mounds your life

By A. Faizur Rahman The importance of mosques in Islam has come into focus again. During the hearing of the Babri Masjid case, advocate Rajeev Dhavan asked the Supreme Court to reconsider

By Arshad Alam Another day another lynching. The numbers only keep increasing with each passing year. According to IndiaSpend.com, since 2010, there have been 87 incidents of cow related violence in India

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi “Jakkirathaiya irunga,” he said in Tamil, over which his command was legendary. “Take care” is how the phrase would translate. But in the way he said it, laying stress

By Mahir Ali IT may have been more prudent for Donald Trump to make the overture before delivering the ballistic message in capital letters. But then, prudence is hardly a quality anyone

By Udayon Misra It’s been a week since the publication of the final draft of the National Register of Citizens. The prophets of doom have been proved wrong and a sense of