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By Mehak Bajpai, G S Bajpai “The prosecution has failed to prove the case” — a statement such as this does not surprise anyone now. It was heard very recently in the

By Zahid Hussain HE was captured on Feb 8, 2010, in a joint CIA-ISI raid outside Karachi. The Obama administration described the arrest of the Afghan Taliban’s second-in-command as a “turning point”

By Muhammad Jalal After the Christchurch shooter opened fire on worshippers during Friday prayers, he was described as a “lone wolf” whose world-view was fomented on internet forums. He was an introvert,

By Claudia Seise A few days ago, I attended my first funeral prayer in a mosque. It was conducted right after the mid-day prayer. The dead person was brought into the mosque

By Abu Asim The years of drama finally ended in disappointment and the court acquitted all the accused of the Samjhauta Express train blasts that occurred in 2007. As many as 68

By Amir Zia After all the menacing warmongering, dangerous posturing and tit-for-tat attacks, Pakistan and India have apparently pulled back from the brink of a full-blown war. And if the credit for

By Ali Ahmed In case the Indian voter sees through the last-gasp clutching at perception management straws by the ruling party using the Balakot aerial strike, the next government would have a

By Avay Shukla Everything in life has a foil, an exact opposite which by contrast gives meaning to an object or idea. Thus a hero has an anti-hero, a thesis has its

By Ashutosh Uttar Pradesh will decide whether Prime Minister Modi will be re-elected. Uttar Pradesh accounts for 80 seats in the Lok Sabha. In 2014, the BJP won 73 seats along with

By Sudheendra Kulkarni Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological mother of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other Sangh Parivar organisations, has two conceptual and psychological fixities when it comes to the