"Bankrupt for decades, always kept alive by some sponsor": Military aviation analyst Tom Cooper on Pakistan's use of Turkish dronesMilitary aviation analyst Tom Cooper asserts Pakistan's long-standing financial instability, dependent on foreign sponsors like Saudi Arabi...
16 May, 2025, 07.52 AM IST
Videos purport to show protesters storming Swedish Embassy in Baghdad in anger over Quran burningThe videos showed dozens of men climbing over the fence at the complex, with the sound of them trying to break down a front door. Another s...
20 Jul, 2023, 07.05 AM IST
How did Erdogan held onto power in Turkiye despite worse economy, hyperinflation?What is astonishing is how the majority of Turkish people elected Erdogan despite a worsening economy and now chronic hyperinflation that w...
30 May, 2023, 01.56 PM IST
Turkey decides Erdogan's future in knife-edge voteThe Hagia Sophia was built as a Byzantine cathedral -- once the world's largest -- before being transformed into a mosque by the Ottomans. ...
14 May, 2023, 10.42 AM IST
Macron's government seeks to give Islam a French makeoverWith France bloodied by past Islamic extremist attacks, having hundreds of citizens who went to fight with jihadists in Syria in past years...
05 Feb, 2022, 05.53 PM IST
India advises Turkey to implement its UN resolutions before preaching othersIndia was exercising its Right of Reply in response to the statement by representative of Pakistan during the High-Level Segment at the cur...
24 Feb, 2021, 10.43 PM IST
View: Imperative to zap the cancer of religious radicalism to save the body politicTo zap a cancerous tumour with radiation is not to attack the body in which the tumour has grown, but to save it. Attempts to apply painful...
19 Oct, 2020, 03.05 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee, Mimi Chakraborty attend Nusrat Jahan's reception in KolkataEarlier in the day, Jahan had attended the Rath Yatra organised by ISCKON with Mamata Banerjee.
05 Jul, 2019, 01.07 PM IST
Germany debates 'mosque tax' to replace foreign fundingSeveral of Germany's 16 states had also signalled support in principle for the idea which would mirror Germany's voluntary Christian "churc...
12 May, 2019, 06.25 PM IST
Uniform Civil Code is essential for national harmony, objections to it are spuriousThe absence of surprise at the Law Commission rebuffing the need for UCC marks a collective acquiescence in the betrayal of the task we had...
24 Sep, 2018, 10.21 AM IST
'By 2050, India will have most Muslims in world', said the Pew Research CenterThere were 1.6 billion Muslims in the world as of 2010 - roughly 23 per cent of the global population - according to a Pew estimate. Curren...
02 Mar, 2017, 08.45 PM IST
Finally, one death makes world weep for migrants; Recep Erdogan blames Europe"The Mediterranean is turning into a graveyard of migrants," Erdogan told the select top global business leaders at the B20 meeting Thursda...
04 Sep, 2015, 11.12 AM IST
Common threads between PM Narendra Modi and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip ErdoganThe winning candidates had both campaigned primarily on issues related to the economy and governance, promising to clean up corruption and ...
30 Nov, 2014, 11.27 AM IST
30 parliamentarians sign charter for freedom of religionA group of 30 parliamentarians from around the world have signed a joint statement committing themselves to advance religious freedom for a...
11 Nov, 2014, 12.16 PM IST
Nationality and religion are two different aspects of one's identityReligious issues are ignored in the process. One such issue is confusion that exists in the minds of youth about interpreting their own rel...
02 Nov, 2013, 11.02 AM IST
- The tussle in Egypt
The generals must yield; and Egypt should follow the Tunisian example.
25 Nov, 2011, 06.56 AM IST
- Go cold turkey, for god’s sake!
A friend who attended a workshop of Overeaters Anonymous says it is possible for any ravenous soul to eat much less than he or she usually ...
30 Sep, 2010, 07.50 AM IST