'Kashmir is the main issue between the two countries.' 'We have not been able to resolve it bilaterally.' 'As the two major countries in South Asia, we have to go back to the drawing board and start engaging.'
Europe seems to be turning more intolerant than ever before, with a global survey suggesting that Islamophobia and anti-Semitism were on the rise across the continent.
Indian American Aakash Dalal faces 30 years in jail after being found guilty by a New Jersey jury on charges of vandalising and firebombing North Jersey synagogues five years ago.
Charlie Chaplin was on Adolf Hitler's hit-list being categorised as an 'Artistic Jew', suggests a Nazi propaganda book, which has the name of prominent Jewish figures, including Albert Einstein.
Israel could be headed for a break from the 'Bibi-regime' as several former allies of longest-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seem to have joined hands with political opponents to form a national-unity government that would not only have political formations from the Left, the Centre and the Right, but may also be supported by an Arab party.
If the amount of disinformation that spreads so rapidly in the US is disturbing our own lack of appreciation of our rich heritage is almost as troubling.
Six people, including a police officer and three bystanders are dead after a furious gun battle that filled the streets of Jersey City, New Jersey, with the sound of heavy gunfire for about an hour on Tuesday
The OTT menu is sparkling with brand new goodies. Here are Sukanya Verma's 10 recommendations for the week.
'Consider Mrs Gandhi's view of her opponents: Traitors, anti-nationals, rumour-mongers.' Does the spirit of the Emergency-era Indira Gandhi still rule India? asks Vir Sanghvi.
The development is being seen as a sign of the growing political prominence of Hindus in America. Hinduism is the fourth largest faith in the US, representing approximately one per cent of the US population in 2016.
Chinese hubris and the slippery slope it finds itself on have important lessons for authoritarian leaders elsewhere, including in India, observes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Ajit Wadekar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Vijay Manjrekar and Eknath Solkar are among the 17 cricketers from Maharashtra who have the 'Kar' suffix in their surnames and have played Test cricket for India.
A series of recent scandals engulfing officials working on the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Games
'I think we can agree she was the lucky one there?'
A politician-fashionista and digital brand strategist talk about dressing style and fashion trends.
The Nazi death camp where more than one million people perished was liberated on January 27, 1945 and the day is commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day worldwide. KL Auschwitz-Birkenau was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by the Third Reich near Oswiecim in occupied Poland during World War II.
For the first time in seven years the prime minister finds himself at his most vulnerable, observes Virendra Kapoor.
These premium brands are distributed by US-based Russian Spirit Inc, owned by Uzbekistan Jew Roman Tallis.
'Napoleon was the first to see the Jews as a political force in the international arena," Prof Mordechai Gichon of Tel Aviv University says in his book, Napoleon in the Holy Land.
Delhi doesn't want Modi to invest his substantial political capital to help Trump without the visit yielding positive results for India.
A collection of some of the best photos from around the world in the last 24 hours
'India is waiting for a leader like Narendra Modi. I don't know whether the leader is Modi himself, but I know India needs a leader like him. It's like the doubts the Jews had about Jesus Christ. Only after He was crucified, did they realise that He was the Messiah,' says director Rupesh Paul who plans to direct a film inspired from Modi's life.
Dave Whelan, owner of Championship side Wigan Athletic, has been charged by the FA for insulting Jewish and Chinese people in a newspaper interview.
Here are some traditional recipes on the holy occasion of Eid-Ul-Zuh from Shabeer Selod's recipe diary.
Gaffe-prone Spicer apologised on national television on Tuesday for comparing the Nazi leader with Syrian President Bashar al Assad
'It was a result of a fundamental Jewish value of kindness and concern.' 'A value that extends beyond our own and on the premise that when we are ok, we are supposed to look up and look around to see who is not.' 'And do something about it.'
'Has the time come to devise Version 2 of ad hoc T-bills?' 'In return, the government must agree to privatise all but five or six banks.' 'If something like this is not done, we will have governments going on the rampage, with increasing frequency,' says T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
Study reveals fascinating insights about sexual behaviour amongst various religious communities.
Janne-Mette Johansson, a Norwegian national on a tourist visa, came under the scanner of Bureau of Immigration authorities over her suspected participation in an anti- Citizenship Amendment Act protest in the Kochi three days ago.
'Only when you are close to the party, will you understand what the BJP stands for.'
'This is the first time there has been an attempt to use market forces to counter disinformation on social media,' notes Devangshu Datta.
Rita Katz, the head of the SITE Intelligence Group, wrote on Twitter that 35 minutes of footage of the attacks were posted online, and that the attacker said in English before the shooting that the "root of all problems are the Jews."
'Hate and violence are an ever-present threat to us.' 'The community is staying vigilant of their surroundings.'
'Ramadan is a time when people join forces in pursuit of hope, tolerance and peace. It is in this spirit that we come together tonight for Iftaar, the traditional Ramadan meal that breaks the daily fast,'
'The greatest blunder was to let the Pakistani army get away with its 'genocide' in Bangladesh. There is massive evidence of Pakistani army brutality in Bangladesh. The evidence is from Pakistani sources itself, the Justice Hamidur Rehman Commission Report. Some of the testimony in that report makes very chilling reading, even 40 years after the event.'
An Israeli couple, who have been asked to leave India in 15 days for allegedly indulging in suspicious activities, have described the charges against them as "baseless".
'Absolute non-violence is not only sinful, but immoral.' 'This doctrine of non-violence benumbed the revolutionary fervor, softened the limbs and hearts of the Hindus, and stiffened the bones of enemies.' A revealing excerpt from Vikram Sampath's Savarkar (Part 2): A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966.
'Lee Kuan Yew told me he used to look to India, especially the writings of Nehru and Sardar Panikkar, for guidance on governance.' 'It's ironic that India should have so much to learn of the spirit of democracy from his son,' notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Sanjeev Nayyar offers a roster of things to do to see the India of our dreams.
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