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There's a rifle aimed at Vivek Murthy

The National Rifle Association aims to shoot down Vivek Murthy's Senate confirmation as United States Surgeon General, Aziz Haniffa reports

How the 'secularists' defeated Nitish Kumar

The 'secularists'are more adept at the politics of intense and alarmingly exaggerated fear-mongering, as this kind of politics provides easy votes of Muslims without making them answerable for the concrete issues of poverty, unemployment, lawlessness, and of basic needs like roads, electricity, etc, which is exactly how Nitish Kumar was defeated in the elections, says Mohammad Sajjad.

'Where land reforms have taken place, there are no Maoists'

A former Maoist speaks to Shobha Warrier

'Nobody believes Nehru was beyond mistakes'

'Terrorism is something you have to deal with. But that is a political call'

'If you say I won't talk to them at all, does terrorism stop?' 'Even if they say they will give up terrorism, "I will fight terrorism along with you," but even then you say I still won't talk to you until you do the following things, then that is a political call.'

Why extrajudicial killings will never bring lasting peace

It's perverse to rationalise 'controlled' killings or torture -- without going down a slippery moral slope. Once the state stoops to torture, it's liable to sink into tyranny, says Praful Bidwai.

Modi and Obama set out to create a model for the world

Moving ahead with their new mantra -- Chalein Saath Saath: Forward Together We Go -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to deepen cooperation in every sector for the benefit of global stability and people's livelihoods over the next ten years.

Visionary Budget but devil lies in the implementation

The government has provided a long-term vision.

President Pranab's address to Parliament: The transcript

President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday addressed the first joint sitting of Parliament as mandatorily required under the Constitution after the general elections. The address is the political, economic and foreign policy road map of the Narendra Modi government and covers virtually all crucial areas.

'Involving its officer in the Ishrat case will destroy the IB'

Ajit Doval, former chief of Intelligence Bureau and now head of Vivekanada International Foundation, continues his furious argument against any kind of CBI action against his former colleague Rajinder Kumar in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case of 2004.

'We assist to bankrupt ideology of violent extremism everywhere'

In his penultimate State of the Union address, Barack Obama said that the economy is improving.

Full Text: What Prez Obama said at the State of the Union Address

Read the full transcript of President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday at the US Capitol in Washington.

From our archives: The Khushwant Singh interview

'In her insecurity, she destroyed the institutions of democracy,' says Khushwant Singh.