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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. (AFP)

Kamal Davar | Imran Khan is down, but not out: Pakistan on edge again

Imran suffered a gunshot injury on his lower right leg, while six others surrounding him were injured and one killed as...

9 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

The needless and avoidable death of 133 people so far after a suspension bridge collapsed in Morbi in Gujarat, must become Indias resolve to never again have such a tragedy. (Photo: AP)

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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Any corner can be cut in a land of...

The handful FIRs that were filed in the Morbi bridge collapse illustrates that there is no credible mechanism to punish...

9 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

In a file photo, a girl holds a draw reading Save Our World as demonstrators take part in the Fridays for Future Scotland march, during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. (AP)

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AA Edit | Will the polluter pay?

The one silver line is that COP26, which met last year was not even open to the idea of compensation but that position...

8 Nov 2022 12:15 AM IST

The UCC cannot, by its very definition, be a state subject. We cant have different uniform civil codes; we cant end communal and cultural heterogeneity in favour of state-level UCCs. (Representational image: image courtesy m.dailyhunt.in)

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AA Edit | Bring in UCC nationally, stop the poll posturing

The only manifesto item pending from the BJP's long-term list is the implementation of the UCC

8 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

Is it that we no longer care about tyranny and due process and individual rights? Or has it now become fine just because its not the foreigners who are doing it? (Representational Image)

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Aakar Patel | Raj lessons for today's India: Why do we see fewer...

The question is -- why should one protest in a democracy? There are many reasons

8 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses Chintan Shivir of Home Ministers of states in Surajkund, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Friday. (Photo: PTI)

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Mohan Guruswamy | Reforming public sector doesn't mean selling it

Mr PM Modi dismantled all these councils and committees and everything is now concentrated with him

8 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Rishi Sunak will take charge as Britains first Indian-origin Prime Minister after an audience with King Charles III on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)

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Saeed Naqvi | Children of Macaulay go global with Sunak's rise

Had Macaulay manifested himself by some miracle in the Calcutta of the 1950s and 1960s, he would have considered himself...

6 Nov 2022 11:04 PM IST

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AA Edit | T20: India, Pak vs England, NZ

The T20 game is no respecter of rankings and reputations

6 Nov 2022 11:01 PM IST

Mr Nitish Kumar said the prohibition law was implemented in Bihar on the demand of women. (PTI)

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AA Edit | TRS gains in T'gana, but bypolls retain status quo

The most keenly watched election was Munugode which the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi wrested from the Congress

6 Nov 2022 10:58 PM IST

$A man walks amid low visibility due to smog, at Kartavya Path in New Delhi, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. A layer of pungent haze lingered over Delhi on Saturday morning as the citys air quality neared the \severe\ zone. (PTI Photo)$ Opinion

Madhav Singhania | Greed led us to rising level of pollution in Delhi,...

The CAQM also has issued multiple guidelines, including the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), and a ban on diesel...

6 Nov 2022 10:56 PM IST

View of a man looking out of an Indian train. (Representational Image)

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Shashi Warrier | Capitalism and the future of train travel

No one remembers cassettes, I said. Youngsters these days don't even know about CDs!

6 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Today there are 5.03 billion Internet users around the world and 4.9 billion of these use social media. (Photo: AFP)

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Manish Tewari | Behind all social media ills: Not privacy, but...

Unchecked proliferation of anonymous accounts has weaponised Internet, turning it into a veritable orgy of hate violence...

6 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST