BY: Flavia Agnes The gruesome rape and murder of an eight-year-old child in Kathua was a hate crime against a Muslim nomadic tribe — the Bakherwals. It is a manifestation...

By: P. Chidambaram The first Gulf War 1990 was fought on oil: which companies will control the oil fields of the Arabian region? Norway wisely built a Future Fund on...

By: Cyril Almeida AND we’re off to the races. Big, controversial budget done; another disqualification and maybe a few more to come; possibly a jail sentence soon to be delivered;...

BY: As’ad Abdul Rahman Every year, Palestinians mark the annual Prisoner’s Day on April 17. Activities and events called for by the Prisoners and ex-Prisoners Affairs Committee and other Palestinian...

BY: Shahab Jafry News media's obsession with Nawaz Sharif's fall hurts the ruling party especially so close to the election, but it also helps it by keeping the spotlight away...

By: Vappala Balachandran The traditional difference between radicalism, extremism, militancy, terrorism and insurgency has blurred over a period of time. Assemblies or speeches preaching radicalism, extremism or militancy without violence...

BY: Seema Chishti Forever locked in with the prime minister’s high-level committee for the social, economic and educational backwardness of Muslims, for several young journalists and researchers “Sachar” is the...

BY: Kamila Hyat We like to see ourselves as a harmonious, perhaps almost perfect, society. Some amongst us at least imagine that religion and tradition drive our lives, keeping us...

BY: Joe Macaron Yemen is not Saudi Arabia's only unfinished war in this decade. Before Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's military intervention in Yemen, the former Saudi intelligence chief Prince...

BY: VAGRAJ BADARAYAN In the long list of fantastic and wild claims made by several high-ranking BJP leaders, Biplab Deb, the newly elected Chief Minister of Tripura, has added another...