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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

AA Edit | We need zero tolerance for insult to any religion

No one must stop condemning people who are openly calling for violence, demanding that the culprit be beheaded

25 Aug 2022 12:08 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Railway officers now likely to face appraisal by...

The Railways Board has introduced a process that allows peers and juniors to evaluate their reporting officers

25 Aug 2022 12:07 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the four-nation India-Israel-US-UAE (I2U2) virtual summit to be held on Thursday, New Delhi announced on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | After Bihar move, is PM's sense of unease growing?

Although the Opposition parties are divided, the ruling party can bleed in many states

25 Aug 2022 12:06 AM IST

Sex workers of Sonagachi, South Asias largest redlight area are seeing brisk business as they are accepting the banned notes as demonetisation hit small businessmen across Kokata. (Photo: AP/Representational)

Sunitha Krishnan | Court did not legitimise sex work; focus on women's...

Several news articles have reported that a May 2022 Supreme Court ruling recognised sex work as a profession. Did it...

24 Aug 2022 12:39 AM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)

Sunil Gatade | Will a Jagjivan Ram' rise in BJP ahead of 2024 LS...

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath has also been forced to cool his heels by not being included in the all-powerful...

24 Aug 2022 12:21 AM IST

Team Indias flagbearer Nikhat Zareen during the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games 2022 (CWG). Photo: PTI

AA Edit | Sports bodies must do better

Our athletes' national marks are beginning to look good enough for winning medals in international events

23 Aug 2022 10:16 PM IST

Villagers through a field along a road amid dense fog on a cold winter morning in Jammu. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | J&K must sort knotty issue of who can vote

The UT now has 76 lakh voters on the rolls though the 18-plus population numbers around 98 lakhs

23 Aug 2022 10:14 PM IST

AA Edit | A murder to spur Ukraine war

It's not often that Putin's allies and mentors are the targets of car bomb attacks in a state known to use tactics like...

23 Aug 2022 12:25 AM IST

Citing the Covid-19 pandemic, the Narendra Modi government says that it cannot be done now. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | Why, for the first time in 150 years, India's Census...

Since 1881, even during wars in the past, it has never been postponed

23 Aug 2022 12:07 AM IST

Congress flag (Image source: Freepik)

AA Edit | Who will wear crown of thorns in the Congress?

The current mood is of confusion, dithering leaders and wilting cadre, pieces falling apart and away, with no cohesion,...

23 Aug 2022 12:06 AM IST

The roots of our problem with China go back a few hundred years when Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander met in July 1807 (Photo: AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | How India got saddled with Aksai Chin mess

The Indian case for ownership of Aksai Chin, or the white desert, rests essentially on the cartographic exertions of a...

23 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST