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Droupadi Murmu, who is set to be the first tribal woman President of India, in New Delhi, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (PTI)

Anita Anand | What Droupadi as President will mean for tribals? Not...

Are such appointments of women and individuals from the minorities just tokenism?

2 Aug 2022 11:47 PM IST

Hemant Soren writes to Pokhriyal, seeks postponement of NEET, JEE exams. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Beyond Cong MLAs' arrest: Political games in J'khand?

For starters, the arrest of three Congress MLAs belonging to Jharkhand in West Bengal is all wrong but not for moral...

2 Aug 2022 9:00 AM IST

First batch of five Rafale fighter aircraft fly out from France to India. PTI photo

AA Edit | High time to phase out MiG-21s

The IAF may have asked for the MiG-21 jets to be replaced in the 1980s but is still in the process of finding a modern...

2 Aug 2022 8:58 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Despite harsh laws, India can't become a police state

Real question is whether the impulse of State is to move towards greater liberty for individuals or greater restrictions...

2 Aug 2022 7:20 AM IST

US President Joe Biden (AP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Biden in Mideast: Why old conflicts can't be...

The war in Ukraine has reinvigorated the importance of the Middle East and the inevitability of the US-Israel special...

2 Aug 2022 7:09 AM IST

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP)

AA Edit | Pelosi better skip Taiwan

No high-ranking US official has visited the island for 25 years though the US is bound to provide the island the means...

1 Aug 2022 12:40 AM IST

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari denied reports that he is in self-isolation. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Maha gov's loose mouth spells trouble for Shinde

The time may have come for the Centre to move this governor out of Maharashtra even if it is under Sena-BJP rule now

1 Aug 2022 12:35 AM IST

Rebekah Vardy (L) and Coleen Rooney. (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | When libel WAGs a friendship; will Harry's memoir pack...

Packaged for Christmas, Prince Harry will, along with his ghost-writer J.R. Moehringer, tell all in a new book

1 Aug 2022 12:12 AM IST

Opposition MPs protest in the Rajya Sabha during ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Sansad TV/PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Parl as a battleground: Does disruption help govt or...

The disruption provoked by the ruling side is identical to the art of the double con games and heists made popular on...

31 July 2022 11:36 PM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Walk the talk on atma nirbharta': Need new culture on...

The culture of dependence on the former colonial masters to fill our foreign pages is all-pervasive

31 July 2022 12:10 AM IST

Shailaja Khanna | Abhangs, secular' food for the soul

Sadly, the emotive element in musical genres linked to devotion seems to be taking a back seat nowadays

30 July 2022 11:42 PM IST

With the Russia-Ukraine war getting prolonged, New Delhi has been looking at ways to soften the blow that it received in the form of three-digit crude oil price. (Representational image: Twitter)

Manish Tewari | The realpolitik of war in terms of commerce

In the middle of all this mayhem there is commerce

30 July 2022 11:37 PM IST