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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

Simon Stiell, U.N. climate chief, speaks during a closing plenary session at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Photo: AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Deal on climate, but hard decisions put off...

The goal was to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to...

23 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) gesturing at the third No Money for Terror (NMFT). (Photo: AFP) ministerial conference on counter-terrorism financing, in New Delhi.

AA Edit | Choking funds for terrorism

Given that most terror operatives commit themselves to their cause which they believe right, the multiplier effect of...

22 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

Both PM Modi and CM Rao are occupying the respective positions because of the people of the country and state of Telangana; and any disrespect to any position is also disrespectful to the people. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | CMs must meet PM: Keep politics, governance apart

At the peak of Left parties' face-off with Cong, late Jyothi Basu would engage with PMs, as would BJP CMs, who would...

22 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | The 1962 India-China war: In dubious battle

Governmental decision-making still characterised by ad hocism and a tendency to grandstand

22 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST