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Defense personnel carry a flag-draped casket of Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed forces Bipin Rawat at Palam airport in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. (AP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Rawat death a blow: Stick to unified command path

India is moving towards a unified command of all the three wings of the defence services for the first time

10 Dec 2021 2:33 AM

The farmers are hard-nosed realists and they are not sentimental romantic fools like their urban supporters and urban opponents. Representational Image. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Farmers can’t be fooled: Govt looks short-sighted

The farmers who are now demanding a law which assures MSP are not taking advantage of Mr Modi’s goodwill gesture

25 Nov 2021 2:30 AM

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Loony left and loony right are good for a good laugh!

Between the loony left and the loony right, the loony right is more dangerous because they readily indulge in violence instead of protests

20 Nov 2021 7:18 AM

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a meeting during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow. (AP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Ambiguities remain amid India’s pledges at COP26

PM's quantitative commitments at Glasgow earlier this month require a closer look than usual

07 Nov 2021 10:55 PM

Though 50 countries have promised net zero emissions by 2050, the experts feel that the roadmap is vague. Representational Image. (AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India set to score brownie points at Glasgow’s COP?

In Paris, there was a commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2030

29 Oct 2021 3:03 AM

Mr Sidhu is cloaking his ambition in the bid to fight corrupt leaders in the party. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Sidhu drama reveals Cong afloat despite the anarchy

The Congress had to go into the election with Mr Channi as the face of the party, and not Mr Sidhu

30 Sep 2021 1:42 AM

Punjab’s new dalit chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dalit CM in Punjab poses a real challenge for Cong

The devious games inside the Congress Party are too well known, and they are past lamentation

22 Sep 2021 2:27 AM

The Niti Aayog booklet explains that the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) is to be financed through the National Monetisation Pipeline. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Govt can’t leave it to pvt sector to spend on infra

The private sector in India is not too keen to get into infrastructure projects

01 Sep 2021 1:50 AM

The consistent stand of India, whether it was that of the BJP-led NDA or the Congress-led UPA, was that there are no “good Taliban” or “bad Taliban”, and that the Taliban as Islamic terrorists were all bad. Representational Image. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s real problem on Taliban is its Pak links

India’s first real brush with the Taliban came during the December 1999 Indian Airlines IC-814 hijacking

24 Aug 2021 4:19 AM

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman would perhaps explain that the Modi government did not move the amendment to the retrospective tax amendment as it wanted it to be proved how wrong the Mukherjee move was in terms of legality. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Retro tax scrapping will not lead to spurt in FDI

Everyone felt that it was curtains at last for what is considered Pranab Mukherjee’s policy folly as finance minister in 2012

10 Aug 2021 2:18 AM

Karnataka strongman and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | BJP’s K’taka mess lingers: BSY won’t go away quietly

Karnataka strongman and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa stepped down on Monday evening as the state’s chief minister after much melodrama

28 Jul 2021 12:33 AM

Navjot Singh Sidhu. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Sidhu is Cong wild card for Punjab’s 2022 polls

Apparently, neither Mr Gandhi nor the Congress high command really liked the idea of a state leader who was on his own

22 Jul 2021 12:10 AM

Newly appointed Uttarakhand Legislative party leader Pushkar Singh Dhami with party leaders, in Dehradun. Central observer D Purandeswari, Tirath Singh Rawat are also seen. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | U’khand trouble spells end of Modi’s free run

The Assembly elections in April-May have shown that there are limits to the Prime Minister’s charisma

05 Jul 2021 7:09 AM

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | In Covid crisis, SC forces Centre to share vital info

PM Modi and his government has claimed credit for its decision on procuring vaccines directly and then allocating them to the states

30 Jun 2021 12:20 AM

It’s a clear warning for former spies and spooks, and others who know a little too much about the secrets of the State, that they will lose their pension and other benefits if they were to spill the beans. (Twitter)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The business of gagging retired spooks isn’t easy

Citizens of a democratic state have a right to know whether the money they pay in taxes is used for diabolical acts like murder and mayhem

05 Jun 2021 1:01 AM

A medic administers a COVID-19 vaccine at Tej Bahadur Sapru Hospital in Prayagraj. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | As pandemic rises, it’s crucial to get ‘numbers’ right

For long we have believed numbers are sure indicators, that they don’t deceive

25 May 2021 9:33 PM

What attracted attention, obviously, was his taking note of the upheaval caused by Mr Modi’s arrival in Delhi as Prime Minister, dealt with much panache in the first two chapters of the book under the attention-grabbing headings of “Bombard The Headquarters” and “Modi’s Metaphors”. — By Arrangement

Book Review | A clinical view of the exit of Delhi durbar, not an anti-Modi diatribe

Sanjay Baru’s book analyses the changing complexion of India’s diverse influence groups

09 May 2021 9:53 AM

In its May 5 verdict, the Supreme Court had spelled out various reasons for disallowing reservations for the Marathas. (DC file photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The case against quotas isn’t about meritocracy

The reservations issue poses a special dilemma for Shiv Sena and BJP, as both subscribe to conservative ideologies of different shades

07 May 2021 12:00 AM

Verdicts in TN, Kerala, Assam show political diversity rules

The masterminds behind the one nation, one party slogan should know they cannot hope to win across the entire country

03 May 2021 12:00 AM

Family members mourn near the body of the deceased after clashes erupted between locals and central forces during the fourth phase of West Bengal Assembly Election in Cooch Behar. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Bengal violence erupted as all leaders poisoned the air

What India is seeing is a generation of political leaders who are immature, who lack the poise of a leader of a national stature

15 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

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