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Manish Tewari is a lawyer and a former Union minister. The views expressed are personal. Twitter handle @manishtewari

No wonder according to a recent report, most global internet users lack confidence in what they see and read online, with only 8 per cent believing that the bulk of information shared on social media is true, dropping to 4 per cent when it comes from influencers.

The case for regulating social media in India

The time has come to seriously evaluate the role played by social media in spreading disinformation and hate speech in...

23 Jun 2019 1:42 AM IST

Sikhs have been campaigning for quite some time to get the restrictions removed and were pressing the White House to push the changes. (Photo: Representational Image/AFP)

Punjab's secular ethos beat campaign of hate

The constituency is also home to the notable city of Chamkaur Sahib.

9 Jun 2019 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the success of Mission Shakti on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

A-Sat: Amid Modi brag, some key policy queries

The March 27 test does not square up with this position but represents a holistic turnaround.

31 March 2019 12:00 AM IST

Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar (Photo: AFP)

Pak needs to act now, smash own terror net

Irrespective of how round one may play out, in any future engagement round one may not be the endgame.

17 March 2019 12:00 AM IST

Sources said that though junior level officials from both sides were having flag meetings.

Did India kill 300 terrorists in Balakot?

Pakistan claimed that it had deliberately targeted open spaces around the military bases to demonstrate its capacity to...

3 March 2019 1:08 AM IST

A scene of the spot after militants attacked a CRPF convoy in Goripora area of Awantipora town in Pulwama district of J&K on Thursday. At least 44 CRPF jawans were killed in the attack. (Photo: PTI)

The lingering aftermath of our finest hour in 1971

The Pakistani deep state believes that over a period of four decades this strategy has paid them rich dividends.

17 Feb 2019 1:04 AM IST

Basic income: An idea whose time has come

Certain humanists commenced toying with the contours of a minimum income in the form of public aid.

3 Feb 2019 12:36 AM IST

Winston Churchill (Photo: AP)

Humour more effective poll tool than expletives

The actor-President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan, had a tremendous sense of humour.

20 Jan 2019 12:03 AM IST

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

The art of propaganda & the politics of cinema

Nazi domination of the German film industry is the supreme example of the usage of films to subserve the fascist...

6 Jan 2019 12:22 AM IST

The US also started turning inwards post its involvement in Afghan and Iraq wars that devastated its economy, leading to huge deficits.

Globalisation's ascent & a multi-polar world

Another interesting phenomena that started delineating itself concurrently was the separation of religious temporal...

23 Dec 2018 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election campaign rally in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Why turn state poll into a presidential face off?

The print media still continues to be quite local in its footprint notwithstanding a few print publications that have a...

9 Dec 2018 1:32 AM IST

Indian troops at the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack site. (Photo: AP)

Pak needs to get over its India obsession

The tragedy is that successive governments in Pakistan have been in complete denial about 26/11.

25 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST