With China having 87,000 dams, many in Tibet, with strategic benefit against India, experts on Friday urged the "down stream" Asian nations to unite and force Beijing to sign a trans-border water sharing treaty to counter its massive damming policies....
With India saying that there have been differences over the implementation of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, a dispute that was referred to an international tribunal under the aegis of the World Bank, the issue has come back into focus because of the current tension with Pakistan following the September 18 cross-border terror attack on an ar...
Absent good advice, democratically-elected leaders are capable of making serious mistakes which have far-reaching repercussions on the future of their country. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's address at the UN General Assembly on September 21 will go down in the country's history as a monumental error of judgement and an example of delus...
Despite the clamour for retaliatory action to Sunday's daring cross-border terror attack from Pakistan on an army base at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir that claimed the lives of 18 soldiers, experts and analysts are of the view that India has limited military options and should look for other paths. ...
A resident of Amritsar has filed an FIR against the oncology department of Max Superspeciality Hospital, Saket, in south Delhi, alleging negligence after he was operated upon for cancer and reconstructive plastic surgery, only to learn later that he did not have cancer at all....
There is no "God of war" and religion must not be used to justify violence, Pope Francis said on Tuesday, repeating recent calls for world peace....
Objecting to a section in the draft Trafficking of Persons (Prevention and Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016, representatives of sex workers' collectives from east India on Tuesday asserted that many are involved in the business "voluntarily" and do not want to be "rescued"....
The government has initiated an "intense campaign" to free Waqf properties grabbed by "Waqf mafia" in several states, Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday....
Author and journalist Pinki Virani's recent book "Politics of the Womb: The Perils of IVF, Surrogacy and Modified Babies" grabbed headlines for its exposé of the unscrupulous practices involved in the business of "baby-making"....
Such administrative lapses are true of minor incidents of lawlessness as well like the antics of the "gau rakshaks" or the cow vigilantes, who have been running amok from Mewat in Haryana to Bengaluru in Karnataka....
