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Forcing the use of Hindi in non-Hindi regions by the Central government and Central public sector enterprises, including the nationalised banks, is causing avoidable resentment (Image credit: Facebook)

Sanjaya Baru | The politics of language: India's unity in diversity

If Hindi enthusiasts are hurting the cause of their language, so are other such language enthusiasts in other parts of...

16 Oct 2022 10:56 PM IST

Fiction will be alive and kicking as long as we and our imaginations are alive. I think its people who are in the book business who need to check their pulses. Representational Image/DC

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Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Fiction is dead.... Long live fiction

Fiction is in a dismal state, said a well-known literary agent

16 Oct 2022 7:54 AM IST

No Indian after Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 has got the Nobel for Literature. (Photo: Nobel Prize)

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Pavan K Varma | Are the criteria to award Nobel wholly objective?

Mother Teresa got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Only next year did we give her the Bharat Ratna

16 Oct 2022 7:52 AM IST

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Anita Katyal | Tharoor runs a lively campaign; what if Sourav joins...

Mr Kharge's social media presence might have lagged behind Mr Tharoor's but he made up for it with a slew of media...

16 Oct 2022 7:50 AM IST

$Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 9 blamed Ukrainian secret services for the huge blast a day earlier that ripped through Russias Crimea bridge, which he described as a \terrorist act\. (Photo: AFP)$ Opinion

Farrukh Dhondy | As Putin cuts off the gas, Europe looks ahead to a...

Mr Putin has retaliated by cutting off gas supplies and even sabotaging with leaks his own undersea gas pipeline

14 Oct 2022 11:28 PM IST

Students wearing burqa and hijab leave the examination centre, after appearing for the class Xth examination of Bihar School Examination Board, in Patna, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. (PTI Photo)

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AA Edit | No need for ban on hijab, just allow girls to choose

Allowing it for one section and disallowing it for the others would undermine the very idea of secularism, it held

14 Oct 2022 11:24 PM IST

Bombay High Court on Friday quashed two government resolutions issued by the Maharashtra government putting curbs on elderly film, TV artistes. (PTI Photo)

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AA Edit | Saibaba: Long overdue acquittal

Neither his academic achievements nor the health status of Prof. Saibaba had persuaded the lower court into taking a...

14 Oct 2022 11:21 PM IST

A ten-time MLA and a Parliamentarian, who also served as the Union defence minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav rose to national prominence in 1989. PTI

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Shobhaa De | Farewell Netaji': The akhada is now empty

That's the thing about people in the political akhada nobody gives a damn once they're out of power

14 Oct 2022 11:18 PM IST

Binny gets a top post without hankering for it and it is on the cards that he will prove a sane voice in matters to do with taking Indian cricket forward. (Photo: PTI)

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AA Edit | WC champ in BCCI hot seat

Once the highest wicket taker in the 1983 WC for Kapil's Devils, Roger Binny has the credentials to serve the game, with...

14 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

Inflation eased to 6.80%, significantly lower than Januarys 7.59%, according to the March 4-6 poll of more than 40 economists (PTI)

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AA Edit | Amid global headwinds, govt must rally all forces

This is the ninth consecutive time that the retail inflation has come above RBI's tolerance level of six per cent.

14 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

The CPC under its overlord Xi Jinping refuses to play second fiddle to any global power. (AP)

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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Xi as new Mao? India & China face testing time

An unprecedented third term for Xi Jinping would silence those who seek to revive the debate on the market economy

14 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

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AA Edit | Kerala's cannibalism shocker

The Kerala police, who began investigating a missing complaint, cracked the case in the following weeks using forensic...

13 Oct 2022 12:15 AM IST