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AA EDIT | Sinhala-Tamil politics can wait, first rescue economy

The one thing that is in Ranil's favour is his experience in government, which could come in handy as IMF negotiators...

22 July 2022 9:37 AM IST

AA EDIT | Zubair: Courts must emulate SC

The Supreme Court has just thwarted one such effort when it ordered the release of Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of...

22 July 2022 9:34 AM IST

Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair comes out of Tihar Jail after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in all FIRs lodged against him in UP, in New Delhi. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Let SC act: End arbitrary arrests over...

The BJP and other right-wing entities have taken up cudgels against Mr Zubair, and the secular elements are up in arms...

21 July 2022 11:30 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | Curious moves kead to choice of Himachal's new chief...

The search for his successor has been a convoluted one

21 July 2022 11:28 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Is growth in population a ticking bomb or blessing?

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Is growth in population a ticking bomb or...

Managing population through heavy-handed top-down curbs on fertility is an inhuman and ineffective policy

21 July 2022 12:50 AM IST

Shinzo Abe (AP file photo)

Vishnu Prakash | Adieu Abe San! Japan loses a proud visionary, China a...

A nationalist to the core, Abe San wanted Japan to be strong again and stand tall among the comity of nations

21 July 2022 12:45 AM IST

A man stands on the dried out lake bottom of the Zicksee in St. Andrae am Zicksee in Burgenland, Austria on July 20, 2022. - Ongoing heat led to draining of the lake. Hundreds of fish died in the dried out lake. (Photo by Alex HALADA / AFP)

AA Edit | Europe boils amid climate change

The UK, used to milder climes, saw 40 C crossed for the first time in its history while France had gone through it at...

21 July 2022 12:17 AM IST

Opposition leaders protest in the Rajya Sabha during ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Sansad TV/PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Row over GST: Govt, Opp. must unite to find solution

The Opposition protests against the newly-introduced five per cent GST on certain food articles and also demands a...

21 July 2022 12:10 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | North vs South: For Muslims, the experience is wholly...

In the North, manufactured daily incidents keep communalism on a continuous simmer and folks huddle and wonder what the...

20 July 2022 7:15 AM IST

This handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows the Islamic Republics President Ebrahim Raisi (R) walking alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tehran on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Iranian Presidency / AFP) /

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Ukraine: What lay behind Russia's unprovoked...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is entirely culpable and can't run away from his avoidable and deplorable decision to...

20 July 2022 7:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with USA President Joe Biden and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, at G-7 Summit, in Germany. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | A benign mask for whole world; fangs bared to citizens...

India's government does not want to be recognised abroad for what it is a majoritarian, authoritarian State

19 July 2022 12:07 AM IST

The grandiose Hambantota port project in Sri Lanka, which once had the same bunch of Indian strategic thinkers in a tizzy, hosts no ships and doesnt earn much. China is now pressuring Sri Lankans to service its debt and is seeking to extract some more in lieu of that. (Wikimedia)

Mohan Guruswamy | China's Belt and Road drive was just another...

China is now pressuring Sri Lankans to service its debt and is seeking to extract some more in lieu of that

18 July 2022 11:53 PM IST