The only way to end the obsession with English-medium education — absent in Germany or Denmark, with widespread English proficiency — is to...

People will choose to unite, grudgingly, across localities and nations, driven by the logic of self-preservation.

Followers of Ram Rahim, whipping up violence leading to many deaths is a warning of this heady yet destructive cocktail that has been perio...

Author and academician Linda Hess talks about her latest book on Kabir, how she found inspiration in UR Ananthamurthy and her Bengaluru con...

When home minister Rajnath Singh says that it is an overused term, and several people nod in sane agreement, the season has surely come to ...

BJP today alleged that Congress was playing with fire by "stoking up communal passions" by projecting "falsehoods", that PM Modi has been t...

In what many believe to be a masterstroke in the runup to 2016 Bengal elections, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to declassify a...

"They ought to continue supporting the sanctions that are costing them billions of dollars every year? That is not going to happen," Kerry ...

The government said such suggestions were not acceptable to it and that these "should not be discussed even hypothetically".

In a social context we emphasize language, religion and even caste; in the civic and professional sphere we prefer our Indianness.

He said that the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, the year of Gandhi's death, owe much t...

Mr Obama backs plans to rotate American forces continuously through the Baltic republics. But such promises are rooted in treaty obligation...

Calling himself the "Pradhan Sevak" (chief servant) of the country, the PM seemed to make a case for economic nationalism with a call to fo...

There is possibility of sectarian passions flaring up in India, in the wake of protests and attempts to send Shia volunteers to fight in Ir...

NC and PDP said that Modi has reneged from the path taken by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee even before he could reach that pos...

Modi should not become PM, because that would destroy idea of India as a nation that celebrates unity in diversity, where multiple identiti...

A suicide attacker blew himself up at a Shiite Muslim mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least f...