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Why is the Narendra Modi government sending letters to the states that they should have strict enforcement of crowd control when Mr Modi is himself holding giant rallies. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | The unreality' of India today: Nothing makes sense any...

The second wave of Covid-19 had begun at the end of February, so the question is why spectators were allowed into the...

23 March 2021 7:55 AM IST

Indian soldiers keep watch at India-China border. (AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | The challenges of living next to Chinese dragon

It would thus seem India and China are destined to live out the foreseeable future as rivals, if not adversaries

23 March 2021 7:25 AM IST

Modis assertion came as Bollywood star Mithun Chakraborty, who joined the BJP recently, is likely to become a voter at the Cossipore-Belgachhia Assembly seat in north Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata can kick me but not development: Modi

Modi made it clear on that he would not allow Mamata Banerjee to kick away the state's development any further

22 March 2021 4:44 AM IST

Amit Shah, hurried through his promises in a brief 13-minute speech in front of what appeared to be a thin crowd.. (Photo: PTI)

Didi too gets cut money, says Shah

Amit Shah, released the manifesto in Kolkata on Sunday, with an eye on the vote bank of Hindu migrants

22 March 2021 4:32 AM IST

Taking on Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his promise to implement the seventh pay commission for West Bengal government employees, Banerjee questioned the rise in petrol, diesel and cooking gas prices. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata calls herself big donkey for not recognising true face of...

The West Bengal chief minister said she will get the allegations investigated once she is voted to power

22 March 2021 12:31 AM IST

China has for long been a factor in relations between India and the United States. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | India and US: It's still the economy, stupid

Securing US support for India's economic rise is as important for India as strengthening its defence capabilities

21 March 2021 11:31 PM IST

A health worker collects swab sample from a person for COVID-19 test, near Kashmere Gate in New Delhi. (PTI)

COVID-19: India records highest single-day spike this year with 43,846...

Registering an increase for the 11th day in a row, the total active caseload has increased to 3,09,087

21 March 2021 11:33 AM IST

The battle between the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamul Congress and its main challenger, the BJP, is intensifying with both sides pulling no punches in showing the other one down. (Photo: PTI)

Anita Katyal | Mithun made to wait after biting bait; Mamata's game of...

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has been proactive in denying access to journalists to Parliament

21 March 2021 4:36 AM IST

We have new custodians of morality who are easily outraged by anything that does not fit into their conservative, upper-caste, patriarchal and outdated notions of correct behaviour. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan Varma | Let it rip! Stop us turning into the Republic of Hurt

A highly unwarranted subjectivity driven by medieval cultural notions and political hubris is threatening creative...

21 March 2021 4:00 AM IST

Austin said that the US reaffirmed its commitment to a comprehensive and forward-looking defence partnership with India as a central pillar of its approach to the region. (Photo: PTI)

Didn't see India, China war: US

Austin pointed out that US President Joe Biden has said that human rights and rule of law are important to the United...

21 March 2021 1:55 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Something rotten Why is Maha in such a mess?

The political golmal going on in Mumbai reads like a tawdry, hastily written script of a C-grade 1970s' Bollywood flop

20 March 2021 11:50 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | For UK, Sarah Everard killing a wake-up call like...

To Britain the murder of Sarah was what the Nirbhaya rape-murder was to India

20 March 2021 11:45 AM IST