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Navys MiG-29K maritime fighter jets are being deployed at airbases in the northern sector to beef up the Air Forces strength. (PTI Photo)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Making Indian fighter jets: What is all the...

The most glaring case of recurring time and cost overruns, technical faults, mishaps are still occurring in the United...

30 March 2023 12:10 AM IST

Police uses water canon to disperse anti government protesters in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

AA Edit | Bibi forced to take step back

The independence of the judiciary has been a thorn to Israeli politicians

29 March 2023 12:20 AM IST

Indias opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, speaks during a meeting as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu on Monday, Jan.23, 2023. (Photo:AP)

AA Edit | Action on Rahul unites Opp., as people remain indifferent

Mr Gandhi and his series of misfortunes might actually be a blessing in disguise

29 March 2023 12:14 AM IST

US President Joe Biden (R) and Chinas President Xi Jinping (L) shake hands as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 14, 2022.

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will US & China engage or confront each other?

People are clutching at the prospect of a rapprochement after last November's Bali G-20 meeting between Joe Biden and Xi...

29 March 2023 12:04 AM IST

Nikhat Zareen after winning the gold medal in the 52-kg category in boxing. (Twitter)

AA Edit | India's golden boxing girls

Some of the wins came in hard-fought bouts, further embellishing a golden sporting journey for women boxers

28 March 2023 12:19 AM IST

The Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act 2019, that came into force from Monday, provides for a 10 per cent additional reservation for those not eligible earlier. The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha approved the bill within a week. So compelling were the provisions an inclusive agenda for the economically weaker sections (EWS) and explicit exclusion of the well-off that all parties were agreed a rare but welcome show of national consensus. (Representational image)

AA Edit | Scrap religion-based quotas; it's time to rethink all others

Home minister Amit Shah backed Karnataka government's decision saying it was scrapped because it was constitutionally...

28 March 2023 12:11 AM IST

The world has been warning us for some years now to correct course and move back to the path of democracy and pluralism. (DC Image)

Aakar Patel | Civil liberties & democracy: Why is India's rank so low?

We, in the thick of it, may not have noticed the water boiling and the temperature rising

28 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | It's not just about Rahul: The stakes are far...

So far, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress have called a spade a spade, and this trait must be retained

28 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

Using them as a convenient remedy and becoming habituated to these insidious drugs is dangerous and over time becomes an addiction.

AA Edit | India must win war on drugs

According to World Drug Report 2022, India is one of the world's single largest opiate markets in terms of users

27 March 2023 1:42 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrives to address a press conference at AICC headquarters, in New Delhi, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (PTI Photo)

DC Edit | Criminal defamation must go, make it a civil offence

Given the several interrelated circumstances leading up to it, the sentencing of Rahul Gandhi also looks somewhat...

27 March 2023 12:17 AM IST

US President Joe Biden (R) and Chinas President Xi Jinping (L) shake hands as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 14, 2022.

Saeed Naqvi | As Beijing tries to broker peace deals, US firms up its...

The US, as yesterday's hegemon, has woefully diminished its persuasiveness

27 March 2023 12:10 AM IST

Indias opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, speaks during a meeting as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu on Monday, Jan.23, 2023. (Photo:AP)

Anand K. Sahay | Rahul's expulsion from LS: Is India at a turning...

The processes that have been adopted can be checkmated only through stout resistance by society and a show of...

27 March 2023 12:05 AM IST