Straight drive

From left: Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari, business tycoon Azim Premji, superstar Shahrukh Khan and cricketer Irfan Pathan Hindutva activists may want to tear Muslims and Hindus apart through love jihad and ghar wapsi campaigns, but ...

At last, the Constitution (121st Amendment) Bill, 2014 and the (NJAC) Bill, 2014 (now Acts), passed by both the houses of Parliament simultaneously in August, last year, have received Presidential assent. While the former gives the NJAC ...

Freedom of Expression and Right to Information, which are universally regarded as basic human rights, play a pivotal role in any reconciliation process. It is therefore essential that media freedom be enhanced in keeping with democratic principles ...

Some anniversary images of Gandhi returning home a hundred years ago show a familiar old man clad in a knee-length khadi dhoti walking wearily with the aid of a lathi. That image is, of course, false. The Gandhi who landed in Mumbai was yet to ...

By The centre of Asian growth ASEAN and East Asia has strong commercial links with the EU, the US and Japan. But Philippines and Spain have shared four centuries of colonial experiences and this should have translated into a robust post-colonial ...

A plea was filed in the Supreme Court yesterday challenging the validity of the law setting up the National Judicial Appointment Commission to replace the collegium system for appointments to the higher judiciary on grounds it was an assault on the ...

Wayne Rooney is likely to become Manchester United and England's all-time record goalscorer this calendar year Heptathlon star Katarina Johnson-Thompson is expected to win her first major senior medal this year at the World Championships Rory ...

Ganesh Manickavasagam is careful about calling himself the founder of ClayStation in front of his 12-year-old daughter. She has the first claim to the title. It was her idea that kickstarted the startup's journey five-and-a-half year ago from just a ...

ON OCT 25, the Chew family of Lysaght Group and some of its close friends gathered at The Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur for the launch of the autobiography of the group's founder Chew Kar Heing, who had died on Feb 6 at the age of 81. The launch, ...