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The BJPs mega push in the Northeast started in 2016 with the formation of the North Eastern Democratic Alliance, a platform of non-Congress parties in the region with the declared aim to keep the Congress out of power. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | BJP sets high stakes in Northeast states' polls

The BJP has evolved an electioneering pattern where it has a plan for every seat, and the renewed thrust neatly squares...

4 Feb 2023 1:07 AM IST

India has built a reputation for being in some way spiritual . Its not just a local conviction and pride, its internationally touted and recognised. (Representational Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | The Indian mind & spirituality': Don't forget science

The connection is not black-and-white and perhaps just part of the prejudice of my own absolute materialistic...

4 Feb 2023 12:58 AM IST

Indias opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, speaks during a meeting as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu on Monday, Jan.23, 2023. (Photo:AP)

Sunil Gatade | After the Yatra: Will it lead to Rahul's...

The more a leader goes to the people, the more he connects better, and understands better

4 Feb 2023 12:45 AM IST

Shubman Gill celebrates after scoring a century during the third Twenty20 international cricket match between India and New Zealand at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on February 1, 2023.(Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | A new batting star rises

Gill has all the markings to push for inclusion in the pantheon of Indian batting greats if he sustains his form across...

3 Feb 2023 12:15 AM IST

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman poses for a photograph as she leaves the Finance ministry to present the annual budget in the parliament in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | High 5 in the Union Budget: Some clever innovations

Here are the five unique facets in the Budget that need a second reiteration

3 Feb 2023 12:10 AM IST

Given the pace of climate change and the havoc it is wreaking, no course correction will be possible unless green technologies already developed by the industrial nations are made available to all countries. (Photo: ANI)

Suman Sahai | India has task cut out to arrange waiver of IPR on...

No course correction will be possible unless green technologies already developed by industrial nations are made...

3 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2023-24 in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dreams left undisturbed in Budget amid...

The 2023-24 Union Budget of Ms Sitharaman can at best be described as a Budget of idle curiosities, lacking any sense of...

3 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

Vizag beach road. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | Vizag as AP capital welcome

Mr Reddy has finally put AP, however belatedly, on the firm path of sustainable development and a bright future

2 Feb 2023 12:15 AM IST

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2023-24 in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Sound Budget for stability, opportunity lost on reform

Green is the colour of the Budget, with a big thrust to green housing, green vehicles, green industries

2 Feb 2023 12:10 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Bihar IAS body's silence on release of murderer' MP...

Mr Anand was initially handed out a death sentence by a local court, but it was later commuted to life imprisonment by...

2 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman shows a folder-case containing papers of her Union Budget 2023-24 speech on her arrival at Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Sitharaman will be presenting her fifth Union Budget. (Photo: PTI)

Chandrajit Banerjee | Budget: Growth-oriented game-changer' roadmap

The Union Budget 2023 has adopted a well calibrated and judicious fiscal management policy encompassing all sectors

2 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

Security officials and rescue workers conduct an operation to clear the rubble and search for bodies at the site of Mondays suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. The death toll from the previous days suicide bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistani rose to more than 85 on Tuesday, officials said. The assault on a Sunni Mosque inside a major police facility was one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent years. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Pak singed, playing with fire

Given the background of encouragement for disruptive elements who use bombs as a weapon against civilians as well, Pak...

1 Feb 2023 12:10 AM IST