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Not counting the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had just begun his innings, Karnataka has handed the BJP its worst electoral drubbing in Mr Modis nine years in power, when he has presided over not just the Union government but also over his partys fate, bending it to his every wish. (Photo: PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | The Need For A Common And Secular Civil Code

All personal laws in India are misogynistic and medieval.

4 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar (ANI)

AA Edit | Uncertainty lies ahead as Maha in political ferment

The NCP is part of an overarching opposition agenda, where Sharad Pawar continues to be a much respected voice.

4 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

Hundreds turned out for the burial of the 17-year-old whose killing by police triggered the unrest. (AP/PTI)

AA Edit | France burns on systemic racism

The discontent is clear and Mr Macron, with powers extensively in his hands as President, is being blamed for it.

4 July 2023 12:03 AM IST

Twenty-five people died after a bus travelling from Maharashtras Yavatmal to Pune caught fire in Buldhana on the Samruddhi Mahamarg Expressway. (ANI)

AA Edit | Take a lesson from bus horror

As per reports, some of the survivors succeeded in breaking windows and jumped out to escape the raging fire, which...

3 July 2023 12:20 AM IST

File photo of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky walking along tranches with border guard officers as he inspects the state border with Russian Federation in Sumy region. (Ukrainian Presidential Press/AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | Would-be winners in Ukraine war lurching towards far...

The alarming surge of the far-right in Germany, according to the latest opinion polls, shouldn't surprise the political...

3 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 17th Indian Cooperative Congress, in New Delhi, Saturday, July 1, 2023. (PTI)

AA Edit | BJP in MP gives the lie to PM's tall talk on freebies

The pattern evident in Indian electoral politics in the last two decades has been that people reward parties whose...

3 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

Government of Indias Representative and Interlocutor for Naga Peace Talks and Nagaland Governor, RN Ravi on Friday held a detailed consultation meeting with the primary stakeholders of the Naga society in Kohima and said that the central government is determined to conclude the Naga peace process. (Photo: ANI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Check governors trying to exceed their powers

In the past nine years, it has become commonplace for governors to block legislation passed by state Assemblies.

3 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

ChatGPT can formulate legal notes, spot humanly undetectable diseases, and write computer code. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Shashi Warrier | Will ChatGPT spell end of exams and teachers?

Have you used ChatGPT?

2 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

Sixty four per cent of capital outlays in the military budget of 2021 were earmarked for acquisitions of domestically produced arms. (Representational image: DC)

Manish Tewari | India's Defence Conundrum is Russia Over-Dependence

Russia's unprovoked aggression against Ukraine was again such an unknown

2 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. Johns, Newfoundland (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of May Balls in Cambridge as Titan adventure' ...

When the debris is examined by submarine experts, we shall probably know how the disaster occurred

1 July 2023 11:58 AM IST

Tamil Nadu governor R.N. Ravi.

AA Edit | Why governors need to study the Constitution

One of the worst displays of gubernatorial excesses in Independent India was orchestrated by Tamil Nadu governor R.N....

1 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

AA Edit | US fails over univs diversity

AA Edit | US fails over univs' diversity

Finding the balance has been the challenge, but the Americans are being forced into getting it wrong

1 July 2023 12:00 AM IST