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Salman Rushdie (AP file photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | The targeting of Salman Rushdie: Shadow of the 1989...

The 24-year-old Lebanese Muslim, Hadi Matar, has been charged with the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie

20 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST

Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari (ANI)

AA Edit | Gadkari's exit to further boost Modi-Shah clout

The senior Nagpur politician is thought to be close to the highest levels in the RSS, and is also arguably the best...

19 Aug 2022 12:02 AM IST

AA Edit | CUET: Is it really needed?

India boasts of being the IT hub of the world but critical failures in government services continue to make life...

18 Aug 2022 11:58 PM IST

A file photo of Red Fort. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Mohan Guruswamy | How did we do in 75 years? Clearly, better than most

If India were to be horizontally sliced by income, it can be said to be three overlaid countries

18 Aug 2022 11:53 PM IST

FIFA headquarters

AA EDIT | Time to clean up Indian soccer

The need of the hour is to bring in radical reforms in football administration

18 Aug 2022 12:55 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation on the occasion of the 76th Independence Day at the Red Fort, in New Delhi, Monday, Aug 15, 2022. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Can India be a developed nation before it gets...

India, acting internationally as a pragmatic, non-preachy, middle power would be new for its citizens

18 Aug 2022 12:30 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. (PTI)

Dilip Cherian | To fight image problem, UP babus told to scan local...

What's behind this sudden urge of the Yogi Sarkar to scrutinise news emerging from the grassroots?

18 Aug 2022 12:06 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, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (PTI)

AA EDIT | Why did Gujarat flout rules to free Bilkis convicts?

Is it because state elections are coming up and communal embers can be stoked by setting certain kinds of prisoners...

17 Aug 2022 9:53 PM IST

A fireman douses fire from a burning vehicle set on fire by a mob at Shivamigga, Karnataka. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Crack down in Shivamogga

Reason has nothing to do with communal hatred, and Shivamogga is no exception

17 Aug 2022 12:20 AM IST

New Delhi also denied baseless and speculative reports in a section of the Sri Lankan media about interference on its part in the polls. (Bloomberg)

AA Edit | Crisis-hit Sri Lanka sends confusing signals to India

Lanka's role in strategic China-Pakistan-Lanka axis while seeking aid from India leads to suspicion over whether it is...

17 Aug 2022 12:06 AM IST

European Union flags are seen in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. (AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Ukraine is a better fit for EU than Britain...

Unlike Britain, Ukraine, which feels that it has paid in blood for membership, sees Europe as its political and cultural...

17 Aug 2022 12:00 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)

Aakar Patel | Amrit Mahotsav: Do we celebrate past, or what we'll...

Have we done enough economically to pass on something meaningful to the next generation?

16 Aug 2022 12:18 AM IST