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Sterlite Copper factory at Thoothukudi in south Tamil Nadu. (DC file photo)

AA Edit | Sterlite: Jinxed from start?

Hope the new management changes the culture, reaches out to the people and heralds a new beginning for the facility

21 Jun 2022 11:10 PM IST

(L-2R) Chief of Indian Army staff General Manoj Pande, Chief of Air staff, Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R. Hari Kumar pose for pictures during a press conference in New Delhi on June 14, 2022, to announce the new Agnipath scheme under which soldiers across the three military services will be recruited and will be called Agniveers. (Photo: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Govt's surprise moves: The lack of...

Agnipath announcement has all the elements of a surprise move without any serious thinking and planning behind it

21 Jun 2022 10:30 PM IST

Frances President Emmanuel Macron waves as he leaves after casting his vote in the second stage of French parliamentary elections at a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France on June 19, 2022. (Photo:AFP)

AA Edit | Macron hobbled; gains by Left, Right to hurt France

The swing away from France's settled system might give a counter thrust in the form of the importance of Parliament

20 Jun 2022 11:45 PM IST

A file photo of Indian army soldiers patrollingl near the Line of Control (LOC), in Akhnoor, about 65kms from Jammu. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Agnipath: Bringing the gig' economy to India's...

The Union government is experimenting with applying these start-up human resources management principles to the...

20 Jun 2022 11:35 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Indian chess grandmasters Viswanathan Anand, Koneru Humpy and Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur during the launch of torch relay for 44th Chess Olympiad, at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Welcoming spirit of chess to India

Chess was India's gift to the world, but it might be one of the many ancient truths lost on us

20 Jun 2022 11:30 PM IST

Youngsters stage a protest against the newly announced Agnipath scheme, at Jalandhar-Delhi national highway, in Jalandhar, on Saturday. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Anger on streets over Agnipath reflects how New India...

There are no jobs in New India and the anger over the changes in the Army recruitment system is emblematic of a much...

20 Jun 2022 11:29 PM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Home minister Amit Shah during a meeting in Patna. (PTI file photo)

AA Edit | Why rewrite history?

Nitish Kumar's wonderment about how history can be revisited is as much pregnant with political meaning as the call of...

19 Jun 2022 11:39 PM IST

Indian army soldiers are seen near the site of a gunbattle between suspected militants and government security forces at Moachwah in Chadoora area of Budgam district on the outskirts of Srinagar on October 28, 2020. (AFP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Agnipath to transform our military, so give it a...

Transformation always means wholescale uprooting of the old and planting of the new. Agnipath is a subset of the...

19 Jun 2022 11:20 PM IST

A train set on fire by a crowd in protest against the Centres Agnipath scheme, at Danapur Railway station, near Patna, on Friday, 2022. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Arson, vandalism aren't the way to protest; stop lunacy

Let us end all violence in the name of protest. You don't have a right to destroy another citizen, or their property

19 Jun 2022 11:18 PM IST

Britains Home Secretary Priti Patel. (Photo:AP file)

Kishwar Desai | Big hats are all the rage after Jubilee; Charles in...

Home secretary Priti Patel has shocked everyone by executing a bold scheme to transport all illegal immigrants to Rwanda

19 Jun 2022 11:13 PM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Aah... the folly of youth 'twas to other' the old!

It's not about how old you are. Maybe it's about how old you make yourself out to be

19 Jun 2022 12:18 AM IST

The louder pre-alarm alarm for the news media in India and elsewhere is that not only has trust been declining, interest in news appears to have fallen across the world: a huge plunge from 63 per cent last year to 52 per cent this year. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Why people are avoiding news; and what must be done to fix things

Only 42 per cent of respondents said they trust news

19 Jun 2022 12:09 AM IST