BY: JENNIFER SZALAI Steven Pinker doesn’t just want you to be happy; he wants you to be grateful too. His new book, “Enlightenment Now,” is a spirited and exasperated rebuke...

BY: Fazal Malik In a demographically young country, dominated by social media with high penetration of broadband connectivity and mobile phone penetration, it is rather surprising to learn that conventional...

KUPWARA, MARCH 01: The officials of District Information Centre Kupwara and other subordinate centres today accorded warm farewell to District Information Officer Kupwara Abdul Rashid Bhat. Bhat, who was recently...

By: Rashid Paul Srinagar, Feb 28: The J&K High Court today expressed its discontent over the non-implementation of Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, especially the engagement of the required...

By: Sajid Iqbal In a world where belief and militancy are becoming fused, there are peaceful yet puritanical forms of religion that still capture peoples’ imagination. One such form is...

  By: Farhan Zahid The emergence of violent Barelvi extremism in Pakistan was brought sharply to the country’s attention last year when Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah, an Islamist political party,...

By: Towseef Ahmad The concept of right is an important asset with the contemporary world. It is that element of law, politics, justice and ethics which has reached here during...

By. Shahid Majeed Mir The contemporary world order rests on  the sovereignty of people and their rights. This order is known as democratic order of governance  in common parlance. The...

By. Max Boot Reading Marc Fisher and Sari Horwitz’s extraordinary article, comparing the lives of United States Special Counsel Robert Mueller and US President Donald Trump made me realise that...

By. Bandy X. Lee & Jeffrey D. Sachs When Donald Trump took office early last year, many pundits believed that he would settle into his presidency and pivot to normality....