The successful launch of Agni 5 has strengthened India's doctrine of minimum but credible nuclear deterrence. Prakash Chandra writes.
Pakistan is showing a heart-warming interest in telling India to guard its flanks. We wonder what this is about.

Drains, garbage and other daily problems have swung the civic polls in Delhi and Mumbai.

Women, we are pleased to tell you, are more focused on playing by the rules than men.

The RBI has enough elbow room to cut rates further to prop up economic activity.
Ambrose Bierce, American writer, had said, “In each human heart is a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.”

Raj Thackeray shouldn’t stop at migrants. He could issue visas to go from one part of Mumbai to another.

The recent attacks are a precursor to other attempts to undermine Karzai’s credibility.

Hillary Clinton has wished the people of Bengal on their new year. So, what about the rest of India?

It's bad form to take so much State land in order to have a comfortable retirement.
It's easier Saeed than done
Reporter's job fifth worst; software engineer's best - PTI, New York

I always suspected Asif Zardari's visit was more than a pilgrimage. A proposal he made to the PM at lunch suggests I was correct, writes
Karan thapar.

The photo-cartoon sent by Jadavpur University prof Ambikesh Mahapatra in the presence of Subrata Sengupta is difficult to explain to a non-Bengali unfamiliar with the Satyajit Ray film, Shonar Kella (The Golden Fortress),
Indrajit Hazra writes.

Did mine eyes and ears deceive me, or did the Pakistanis seem almost desperate to portray relations with India as being all sunshine and light?
Chanakya writes.