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While bad weather conditions on Wednesday had put a halt to the search operations by helicopters, two Sukhoi-30 MKI combat jets and one C 130J aircraft carried out missions to locate the missing plane. (Photo: Representataional I ANI)

AA Edit | Tragic loss of ace pilot

The loss of an ace pilot becomes more poignant because mid-air collisions are so rare

30 Jan 2023 12:43 AM IST

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, Shehbaz Sharif. (AFP)

Anand Sahay | J&K: New vistas can open if govt ready to shift focus

Neighbourhood difficulties are a constraining factor and an impediment to India realising its true potential as an...

30 Jan 2023 12:18 AM IST

File photo of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holding a folder-case containing the Union Budget 2022-23. (Representational Image/PTI)Photo

Kamal Davar | More bangs for the buck: What FM must ensure for the...

Importantly, the demands for the country's security preparedness always remains a major financial challenge

29 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

The hour-long sessions are scintillating, I tell you, and I have learnt much on a variety of subjects. (Illustration By Krishna Shastri Devulapalli)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Why I just love literature festivals

Literature festivals, for the unversed, are where we writers go to mingle with wannabes, has-beens, never-will-bes,...

29 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza made a winning return to the WTA circuit by advancing to the womens doubles quarterfinals of the Hobart International Tournament here on Tuesday. (Photo:AFP)

AA Edit | Sporting icon takes her bow

The lasting legacy is her stoic determination that redefined what it takes to be a role model in a society with...

28 Jan 2023 12:15 AM IST

The Supreme Court has chosen to make public its reiterated recommendations with regard to certain judges whose appointments the government has been sitting on for over five years now. (Representational Image)

Manish Tewari | Who should appoint judges?

A joint house judiciary committee must be constituted by bringing about an appropriate Constitutional amendment

28 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

BRS president and Telangana CM K. Chandrashekhar Rao. (File Photo: DC)

AA Edit | Skipping R-Day fete does not behove Telangana CM

The unfortunate thinking initially within the Telangana state government seems to have been to avoid it

28 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

People watch the screening of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, in Thiruvananthapuram. (PTI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Allegations in a democracy: It's best to debate, not...

In healthy democracies, allegations will be argued over. They shouldn't be subject to a total niqab being drawn over...

28 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Its time for us desis to borrow the Brit stiff upper lip. Our lips are like Mick Jaggers -- a bit too rubbery and loose. We react and over-react to any and every small thing. (Photo: Twitter)

Shobhaa De | BBC Badnaam Hua. Darrrrrling Tere Liye!

We in India, give far too much importance to firangs who write books or make documentaries on and about us

28 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with chief guest Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi during the 74th Republic Day parade at the Kartavya Path, in New Delhi, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | R-Day boost to India-Egypt ties

India-Egypt ties stretch back 75 years to a time when India was just shedding the colonial yoke and Egypt a few years...

27 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

Union law minister Kiren Rijiju. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Tackle judicial postings in transparent manner

It appears that Mr Rijiju has taken a leaf of national security out of the NDA government's rule book to take on the...

27 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Its no secret that millions of jobs have been lost since the onset of the pandemic and workers who are part of the informal sector, the mainstay of the Indian economy, have been very badly hit. (Representational image: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Ensure growth with jobs: Don't leave poor...

This jobless growth has left millions of Indians in precarious conditions, scrounging for whatever work they can get

27 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST