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Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad (PTI file photo)

AA Edit | Azad ditches Congress in its hour of crisis

His Jammu speech was regarded as opportunistic and aimed to benefit BJP, confirming doubts of many that it was a payback

28 Aug 2022 11:34 PM IST

Salman Rushdie (AP file photo)

Saeed Naqvi | The Satanic' furies: A look at the genesis

Rushdie and The Satanic Verses will encroach on the world's attention now and then indefinitely for political football

28 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Folks that make me highly judgmental'

The parents, now, are the ones who need help. They need to be cut off. They need to remember times when they were young...

28 Aug 2022 12:10 AM IST

A man offers sweets to people convicted for rape and murder in the Bilkis Bano case of the 2002 post-Godhra riots, after they came out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, in Godhra on August 15. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Bilkis Bano and the fault in our criminal justice...

Even the Centre's recent remission policy for release of prisoners on Independence Day excluded rape convicts from its...

28 Aug 2022 12:09 AM IST

Traffic police personnel block a road during an intensified lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus disease, in Chennai, Sunday. (PTI)

AA Edit | Hindsight disfavours lockdowns

Science may have delayed reopening to 2022 when it could have been done a year earlier without causing such economic and...

27 Aug 2022 12:05 AM IST

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

AA Edit | SC relook at PMLA order, Guj remissions welcome

The observations came when there are allegations from across the country about ED being used by the ruling dispensation...

27 Aug 2022 12:04 AM IST

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss looks on before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, hosted by Channel 4 in London, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Cosying up to Liz To get a Cabinet job, or become a...

Offering my flattery to Liz Truss may at last fulfil my long-standing ambition to be a member of Britain's House of...

27 Aug 2022 12:02 AM IST

Chinas new Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said that with two strong leaders at the helm in both the countries, the ties are set to reach new heights. (Photo: Twitter/ VikramMisri)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Time to join forces to take on Beijing's wolf...

Ambassador Sun Weidong only signalled the acute fear psychosis of his masters in Beijing, owing to transcontinental...

27 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav at a function. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Dust settles in Bihar, but testing times loom ahead

Mahagathbandhan is an alliance of 7 parties with a strength of 164 in a House of 243 and the Nitish ministry passed the...

26 Aug 2022 12:12 AM IST

The first e-passport would be issued by the end of the year. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | E-passport move welcome

Digital identities are safe and can be scaled to meet common global standards so that e-passports become the norm

26 Aug 2022 12:10 AM IST

One wonders what, given the recent past and the record since 1947, the next quarter century holds in store for India. (DC Image)

Patralekha Chatterjee | A lot needs to be done for developed' India by...

Development , like beauty, is a word that triggers lively discussions and polemical exchanges

26 Aug 2022 12:02 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the situation in the oil and gas sector via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 14, 2022. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | When will Putin's war end?

When will good sense prevail in this endless war that is defying Russian military superiority? Not soon enough by the...

25 Aug 2022 12:23 AM IST