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Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has decided to appoint the countrys former spy chief Gen. Syed Asim as the head of the countrys army, the information minister said Thursday, Nov. 24 . (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Pakistan's new Army chief might face troubled times

If the Army under Gen. Munir does the unthinkable and goes neutral, it may be speculated that it is inviting internal...

26 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

Rahul Baba baiters want to know more about his weird beard -- a question only Rahul and his barber can respond to. (Photo: PTI)

Shobhaa De | From Chai Pe Charcha to Daadhi Pe Charcha

The politics of beard-keeping demands a book

26 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Meghan Markle (Photo: Instagram)

Farrukh Dhondy | When fantasy pretends to be history Does truth...

Gentle reader, there has always been a conflict between truth and blind nationalist interpretation of events

26 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Congress party presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor addresses a press conference at the UPCC office in Lucknow, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. (PTI Photo/Nand Kumar)

AA Edit | Is Tharoor a problem for Cong?

Mr Tharoor possesses qualities that are sellable among the aspirational middle class Keralites, too

25 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

Four people, including a forest guard, were killed in violence at the Assam-Meghalaya border after the police intercepted a truck transporting illegal timber. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Centre must help resolve border flareups in N-E

The Centre is likely to be concerned that the next round of talks, due later this month, is not derailed on account of...

25 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Firewalling Indian personal data is out of place with this strategy and plays to a jingoistic Chinese playbook, sans its economic and business heft. (Representatioanl Image)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Personal data is only half protected' by new data...

It includes a bland provision for transfer of data outside India to countries notified by the govt on terms and...

25 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

A woman poses with a cut-out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as if receiving her appointment letter from him, during the launch of the Rozgar Mela, in Hyderabad. (S. Surender Reddy/DC)

Dilip Cherian | While UP police top-heavy, Centre struggles to fill...

BJP-ruled states have failed to meet the central deputation quota

24 Nov 2022 12:30 AM IST

In March 2020, the year before Covid-19, merchandise exports were $314 billion. Meaning there was no growth in merchandise exports in six years. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | A win-win deal for India, Australia

FTA with Australia will help India to secure supply of raw materials

24 Nov 2022 12:24 AM IST

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AA Edit | Wake-up call by SC for a stronger, transparent EC

A democracy is a work in progress, and hence would require reforms

24 Nov 2022 12:21 AM IST

The appeal of erecting physical border barriers waned after the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989. (Photo: AFP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Trading with enemy: What drove Germans to...

Mighty Berlin's submission to Beijing durbar was also symbolic of the shifting reality of geopolitics

24 Nov 2022 12:08 AM IST

Choose and declare one idol, Shiv Sena, because you cant have both. (DC Image)

AA Edit | Gandhi or Savarkar? Choose, Sena

The Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena must choose either the Gandhian values, or Savarkar's worldview and...

23 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

File photo of Emergency services personnel at the site after an LPG cylinder exploded inside a car, in Coimbatore, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. One person was charred to death in the incident. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Govts in South must guard against Islamist extremism

Radicalisation of communities is the first in the literature of all terrorists

23 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST