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Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar takes part in a press conference in Bangkok on August 17, 2022. (Jack TAYLOR / AFP)

AA Edit | Let the West criticise, India needn't be so oversensitive

We need to become more engaged with voices of dissent

4 April 2023 12:27 AM IST

A new generation of RSS and BJP leaders are not inclined to update the Hindutva ideology because their basic presumption of glorifying a dead national past is their basic principle. (Photo:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Targeting others': How will it benefit India or brighten...

The Hindutva State has introduced discriminatory and exclusionary laws and policies on citizenship, food, divorce,...

4 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National President J.P. Nadda and Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, S. Jaishankar and Piyush Goyal during the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, in New Delhi. (PTI/Vijay Verma)

Sunil Gatade | Has entire BJP become a Margdarshak Mandal'?

The party as well as the RSS have been caught in the feel good bubble so much so that they only see themselves as...

4 April 2023 12:13 AM IST

King Charles (DC File Photo)

Kishwar Desai | King's German trip apt; as Covid tally climbing,...

We are just a month and bit away from the coronation of King Charles the Third.

3 April 2023 12:35 AM IST

Several houses, religious places and shops were gutted in Khargone as the communal violence, after an attack on a Ram Navami procession, spread to different parts of the city by late Sunday night. (Representational Image/PTI)

AA Edit | Ram Navami clashes a blot; Bengal, Bihar must act firm

Beyond such long-term politics, it is the moral responsibility of every state to ensure peace, order, harmony and...

3 April 2023 12:24 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 57th All India Conference of Director Generals/Inspector Generals of Police, in New Delhi, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Sanjaya Baru | Political & electoral funding: Transparency in...

There is no reason to believe that BJP governments, including that of Mr Modi, have been free of the taint of...

3 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the Khel Mahakumbh being held in Jaipur, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (PTI)

AA Edit | Why this spectre of foreign hand'?

The image of Mr Modi that his party, the BJP, have nurtured over the years is one of a powerful leader of a confident...

3 April 2023 12:03 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Anita Katyal | Last of G-23 no longer pariahs; will Rahul play martyr'...

Several theories are doing the rounds about the party's decision to play the waiting game

2 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

The coronavirus is a family of viruses that can cause a range of illnesses in humans including common cold and more severe forms like SARS and MERS, which are life threatening.

Shashi Warrier | Viruses & nukes: Will we wake up in time or stew?

A green humanoid figure about two feet high stepped on to the ladder and descended to the ground

2 April 2023 12:10 AM IST

Security personnel stand guard following crack down on Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh and his supporters, in Jalandhar, Sunday March 19, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Pavan Varma | Liberty key element in alchemy of democracy

History carries important lessons that we can forget only at our own peril

2 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the Khel Mahakumbh being held in Jaipur, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (PTI)

AA Edit | It's up to Indians to protect our democracy, not outsiders

Leaders of democratic nations, including India, have repeatedly averred that democracy is a shared value.

1 April 2023 12:17 AM IST

Former US President Donald Trump speaks to the media while departing a polling station after voting in the US midterm elections at Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 8, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Trump makes dubious history

Mr Trump may have been charged on many counts but they will be known only after his arraignment takes place on Tuesday...

1 April 2023 12:14 AM IST