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Dilip Cherian | Protocol chief background to help India's new UN...

Like good wine, protocol often sets the mood and creates the right atmospherics for the serious diplomatic business that...

29 Jun 2022 7:24 AM IST

A woman runs from a house thats on fire after shelling in Donetsk, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk Peoples Republic control, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | If Ukraine war goes on, no return to status...

We can only hope that the present doesn't emulate the past to make the future murkier, darker and dirtier

29 Jun 2022 7:15 AM IST

Madhya Pradeshs players celebrate their win after their team beat Mumbai by 6 wickets in the Ranji Trophy final cricket match, at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Sunday, June 26, 2022. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Ranji: A dream triumph for MP

It wasn't so much star value and individual brilliance that saw them win the national pennant

28 Jun 2022 1:01 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, UP BJP President Swatantra Dev Singh, Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak and others flash the victory sign as they celebrate the partys victory in the by-polls, in Lucknow, Sunday, June 26 2022. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Bypolls show how BJP is eating into SP's UP base

Uttar Pradesh sends 80 members to the 542-member Lok Sabha, and hence every signal that emanates from there is...

28 Jun 2022 12:51 AM IST

There are several petitions before the Supreme Court of India challenging the constitutional validity of the law. (Representational Image/ ANI File)

Aakar Patel | Courts, even SC, shouldn't be the only place to go to...

The courts are important, but they are not the only place where citizens' rights can be defended or claimed

27 Jun 2022 11:50 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Ministers Rajnath Singh & Amit Shah, BJP National President J P Nadda and NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu during the filing of Murmus nomination papers for presidential election, at Parliament House, in New Delhi, Friday, June 24, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Mohan Guruswamy | Will Murmu remember the unkept promises to tribals?

Like indigenous people around the globe, India's adivasis too have been savaged and ravaged by later people claiming to...

27 Jun 2022 11:39 PM IST

GST has helped interstate movement of goods. Representational Image. (DC File Image)

AA EDIT | Making the GST regime work

The Union finance ministry should make the states feel that they are active partners in economic growth

26 Jun 2022 10:33 PM IST

AA EDIT | Denial of abortion rights in US insult to all women

AA EDIT | Denial of abortion rights in US insult to all women

In one fell swoop, the United States Supreme Court has trampled decisively upon a woman's constitutional right to an...

26 Jun 2022 10:26 PM IST

In barely three years, Adani has gained control of seven airports and almost a quarter of Indias air traffic. (Bloomberg)

Sanjaya Baru | Indian business in need of neighbourhood diplomacy

Corporate controversies in distant developing countries do not make waves in the Indian media

26 Jun 2022 9:41 PM IST

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Hasan Mushrif had appreciated the remarkable work of three gram panchayats with regard to Covid-19 norms. (PTI file image)

Anita Katyal | Uddhav should've kept home to self; some in Opp. for...

Thackeray must be ruing the day he agreed to gift the home ministry to the Nationalist Congress party two years ago

25 Jun 2022 11:55 PM IST

It seems to me that the reader and the audience should feel a deep sense of gratitude for every individual mediaperson who is going against the grain at the cost of unspeakable abuse online, on social media and even on their own online platforms. (Representational Image/ Pexels)

Kulbir Kaur | Ingroup vs Outgroup & other online aberrations

Social media has recently emerged as 'Villain No. 1' in the eyes of governments all over the world

25 Jun 2022 11:37 PM IST

According to the Pew Research 2021, the core middle class has shrunk from 99 million in 2020 to 66 million in 2021. (Bloomberg)

Pavan K. Varma | What's on the mind of the Great Indian Middle Class?

The middle class knows instinctively when things are beginning to unravel

25 Jun 2022 11:17 PM IST