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By Seema Sirohi Washington: One of the mysteries of the recent India-Pakistan crisis is whether an Indian Mig-21 shot down a Pakistani F-16 in a dogfight. India says it definitely scored a

By Ashraf Lone We entered the age of fake news long time ago and some intellectuals and scholars have started to call it an important branch of post truth. When did it

By Sunanda K Datta Ray The late Queen Mary reportedly said: “When I die India will be found written on my heart”. She was echoing an earlier Queen, Mary Tudor, who made

By Sheikh Umar Ahmad Biotechnology in layman’s term is the selection or alteration of living organisms for human use. Though alteration in every other case is a simple approach, but in case

By Jawed Naqvi THE opposition looks better placed to defeat Prime Minister NarendraModi in the April-May polls than was the case in 2004, when AtalBehari Vajpayee lost suddenly, against all predictions by

By Vakasha Sachdev Attorney General KK Venugopal kicked up a storm on Wednesday by telling the Supreme Court that the government was considering criminal action against journalists and the petitioners against the

By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr The Pulwama suicide attack is part of a running battle with jihadi groups like the JeM and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. Propaganda is a legitimate political tool, but it does

By A.G. Noorani ‘What is constantly said is that that you must not attack the government because it will endanger the country. There are times when the only safety of the country

By Ajaz Ashraf The only salutary aspect of the Supreme Court’s decision to appoint a three-member panel to mediate in the controversial Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case, also known as the Ayodhya dispute,

By Ajai Shukla The military escalation between India and Pakistan appears to be winding down for now. On Friday, Islamabad handed over Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, whose plane the Pakistan Air Force