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The Indian Railways is one of the biggest landlords after the central government. (Photo: Twitter@RailMinIndia)

Dilip Cherian | With AI & data analytics, will govt files now move...

The new chairman and CEO will get a new team, with the recent empanelment of six officers for holding Level 17 posts...

29 Dec 2022 2:15 AM IST

With the knowledge acquired so far, India is better equipped to handle the challenge though (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | China endangering world again

India's vaccines, once derided and which went on to save lives, are now readily available, but people are reluctant to...

29 Dec 2022 1:45 AM IST

People protest against executions and detentions in Iran, in front of the Iranian Permanent Mission to the UN in New York City on December 17, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | After 2022's big challenges, looking at 2023 with hope

The year gone by brought war in Ukraine, saw Covid-19 epidemic abate and now turn vengefully on its source, the People's...

28 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

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

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

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 IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Begumpet, Telangana (ANI)

India's history without blinkers

For far too long, Independent India has believed that history must be partisan, sanitised, shackled

27 Dec 2022 11:32 PM IST

Before Gogra, Indian and Chinese troops had disengaged from Galwan Valley and Pangong Tso in Ladakh. Representational image/PTI

AA Edit | China ties can't be normal if border is at boiling point

India can see no logic in China's approach of seeking normality in ties in all other areas while the border is kept at...

27 Dec 2022 11:29 PM IST

Nepal Maoist chief Prachanda. (Photo: File)

AA Edit | New PM in Kathmandu to pose challenge for Delhi

In the absence of political stability, development is a casualty in any poor country, and Nepal can be no exception

27 Dec 2022 12:33 AM IST

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor and others during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kerala. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Some march together, some alone

It was Rahul Gandhi on his Bharat Jodo Yatra, which India embraced, despite the heckling of Hindutva supporters

27 Dec 2022 12:31 AM IST

A.S. Dulat (Photo: G.N. Jha)

Aakar Patel | Dulat memoirs an eye-opener on how India's spooks think

What this ex-head of RAW, who was also one of the IB's senior-most officers has written is astonishing

27 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Far from being the competitors of the United States, China and India are still its under-economies, serving it with cheap labour working on repetitive jobs and repetitive number crunching. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | What is the prescription for America's many ills?

The problem with the US is, it lives far beyond its means and its profligacy has left it as a debtor, unable to pay its...

27 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

In India too, an intense fight is on between the Hindu right, partially represented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Hindu liberals. (Representational image: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India's culture wars: A clash of ignorant...

There is also the basic question whether the Hindu liberals are really liberal, and whether the Hindu reactionaries are...

26 Dec 2022 2:30 PM IST

Taituhas ancestors were among the 40 Mori leaders who signed the Treaty of Waitangi with representatives of Prince Charless great-great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria, at the site in 1840. (Photo: Instagram)

Kishwar Desai | After a Christmas of misery, looking to New Year with...

A King has not been on the throne in 70 years and a Charles in four centuries. So we look forward to the coronation!

26 Dec 2022 12:58 AM IST