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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

Newspapers and magazines got 53 per cent of all advertising as recently as 2005. In 2022, digital will get 45 per cent and television 40 per cent. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | If print media loses ground, democracy is threatened too

When citizens do not know what is going on in schools, hospitals, police stations and govt offices, how do they hold the...

22 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Even the European Union (EU), with its over-pious climate attitude, is forced to import coal and fire its coal plants in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war, and the EUs economic sanctions against Russia and the Russian retaliation by closing gas supplies to Europe. (Representational Image/AFP)

AA Edit | A victory of sorts in climate change fight

Taken together, the final resolution looks to have followed the agenda of the rich nations.

21 Nov 2022 1:58 AM IST

Cryptocurrency exchanges CoinSwitch Kuber and WazirX have disabled rupee deposits through United Payment Interface (UPI) for the purchase of cryptocurrency. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Indranil Banerjie | Dollar's rise sets off crisis of collapsing...

So far, all attempts to bypass the dollar have failed, but not for want of trying.

21 Nov 2022 1:03 AM IST

Some people believe its inevitable theyll develop dementia because of their genetics. (Photo: ANI)

Suman Sahai | Slipshod way of approvals for GM crops very alarming

The use of herbicide destroys all the vegetation in and around the field where the HT crop is cultivated.

21 Nov 2022 1:01 AM IST