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By Sankarshan Thakur There came a moment in my recent interaction with the chief of the army staff, Bipin Rawat, whose implications are unsettling enough to require remark. I ventured to get

By Rayees Masroor In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of Aadhaar however Supreme Court made it clear in its judgement that no private company can ask for

By K. K. Shahid In mid-July, the Islamabad High Court (IHC), Justice Shaukat Siddiqui, asked the army chief and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief to stop meddling in judicial affairs. By the

By Liaquath Mirza Come October the ‘cleanliness fever’ grips our polity. Mahathma’s birthday is now swatchtha abhiyan day. Mahatma is now the mascot for swatch Baharat initiative. His spectacles now adorn municipal

By Abdul Sattar The arrogance that US President Donald Trump demonstrated during the UN General Assembly session last week underscores the need for a new global order where one power isn’t able

By Tridip Suhrud Dissent in the air. With the arrest of activists, academics and conditional locks on the freedom of speech, India is struggling to define dissent. This was precisely the dilemma

By Manini Chatterjee The Supreme Court delivered a flurry of verdicts last week, coinciding with the final working days of the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, who retires tomorrow. Four of

By K C Singh At the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke on Saturday, September

By Karan Thapar There’s no doubt India-Pakistan relations are accident-prone and when they go into a tailspin, they usually raise disturbing questions rather than provide meaningful answers. Yet, even by these standards,

By Seema Mustafa Just a few days ago Congress President Rahul Gandhi interacted with a large audience of university teachers. And confirmed what has been evident for a while— a makeover that