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Kishwar Desai | Whiff of duplicity! Why did BBC sit on Gujarat ‘leak’ for 21 years?

Mr Sunak dismissed the BBC story but could he have done anything more?

23 Jan 2023 12:31 AM

New Delhi is hardly likely to respond for talks made through a television interview, especially since it has no pressing need to do so. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | India must see big picture, bad time for talks with Pak

After Pulwama attack in early 2019 followed by the Balakot “surgical strike” by India, bilateral relations have practically been frozen

19 Jan 2023 12:05 AM

Dilip Cherian | Mixed response to govt’s idea of corporate fillip for IAS training

The Modi Sarkar has taken a cue from the corporate sector to change the status quo and sought global experts to train young officers

18 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the opening session of the Voice of Global South Summit, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | At last, Global South has a voice

The world is in crisis and there is no end in sight paraphrased Mr Modi’s concerns as he addressed the Global South

14 Jan 2023 12:15 AM

President Droupadi Murmu with Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Suriname President Chandrikapersad Santokhi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia, Madhya Pradesh Governor Mangubhai Patel and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during the valedictory session of the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Can diaspora set an example?

Pravasi Bharatiyas, or our people abroad, are our truest brand ambassadors

11 Jan 2023 12:10 AM

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving at people from the Bogibeel Bridge, the longest rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra river. (Representational Image/PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Will ‘linking rivers’ work, or end up as a disaster?

The project, when completed, will consist of 30 links, with 36 dams and 10,800 km of canals diverting 174,000 million cubic metres of water

10 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

Unlike in the past, China no longer counsels Nepal to keep on good terms with India. (Representational Image/ANI)

Anand K Sahay | China tilt by Kathmandu to disturb ties with India

If a question is seen as having attained immediacy or maturity, in the India-Nepal case the time is now. And the reason is China

06 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 1st All India Annual State Ministers’ Conference on Water via video message, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Public participation must for successful water conservation: PM Modi

PM emphasised that all govts should work like a system where there is constant dialogue between different ministries of states

05 Jan 2023 11:55 PM

BJP national president J P Nadda. (Photo: DC)

BJP national executive meeting on Jan 16-17; Nadda's extension as party prez likely

Meeting will see the party leadership taking stock of election preparedness of its state units where Assembly polls are scheduled this year

04 Jan 2023 7:40 AM

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | SC leaves a lot of loose ends with demonetisation ruling

Demonetisation is mainly a policy issue, and an impartial examination of the details will show that it was done without much forethought

04 Jan 2023 12:05 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 108th Indian Science Congress on the theme 'Science and Technology for Sustainable Development with Women Empowerment', via video conferencing, in New Delhi (PTI)

PM Modi asks scientific community to make India more self-reliant

PM said that development in science should be aimed at fulfilling India’s needs and this should be inspiration for the scientific community

03 Jan 2023 9:40 PM

We will need to write the doctrine and the strategy, and that will not be easy for a government that prefers certitude over doubt. (Representational Image/AFP)

Aakar Patel | India’s Pakistan obsession: Can doctrine shift to focus on China?

Building intelligence capability now to counter our primary threat — China — will not be easy

03 Jan 2023 12:05 AM

The Indian economy might have been caught in the tailwinds, but the truth is PM Modi’s view seems to have been proven right, against those of most global experts. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | Indian economy looking up, but joblessness a big worry

The economy today is strong, healthy and looking upwards

03 Jan 2023 12:05 AM

No one expected Rahul Gandhi to actually walk, undistracted and uninterrupted, for over 100 days covering 3,500-odd kilometers before reaching New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | How the three-shell trick works in India’s politics

Every politician knows, some far better than others, how to hide the dirty pea under a shell and confuse the voter about where it went

03 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

The Bharat Jodo Yatra is not “a journey without maps”. It has crept up on the existing grammar of politics. (Representational Image/PTI)

AA Edit | As 2023 looms, is there a change in India’s mood?

The social situation is in stasis on account of the moves made by the communal right. A time to resolve to get things right

31 Dec 2022 12:39 AM

Anand K. Sahay | Early signals of a churning, in India’s politics and civil society

In the regions where state elections will be fought, the real contest will be between the BJP and the Congress

28 Dec 2022 12:00 AM

For those who are not drunk on the magic of numbers, this massive over-population can only warn of a Malthusian disaster looming ahead. (Representational Image)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Most populous in world: An asset or a burden for India?

Such numerical achievements do not add up to material well-being or mental happiness. They have no impact on the quality of life

22 Dec 2022 12:00 AM

Other parties are divisive because of their propensity towards casteism but, and this is the thinking, the BJP is above caste. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | The caste factor and the BJP-RSS’ Hindutva politics in today’s India

The fact is that Hindutva wants Indians to worship caste, but it doesn’t want them to talk about it

20 Dec 2022 12:05 AM

It is now up to Rahul Gandhi to nurture inner-party democracy by deferring to Mr Kharge as the leader and letting him run the party. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Dynastic politics in India: Long live our democracy!

Except for the CPI(M) and the BJP, every political party in India has a dynastic line of succession, or more aptly inheritance

20 Dec 2022 12:00 AM

The Prime Minister’s Office also said Mr Modi “briefed” the Russian President about India’s current presidency of G-20, of which Russia is also a member. (Photo: PTI)

Dialogue and diplomacy only way forward to resolve Ukraine crisis: PM Modi to Putin

Russia said that “at the request of PM Modi, President Putin gave a fundamental assessments of Russia’s line on the Ukrainian direction”

16 Dec 2022 9:39 PM

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