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Mohan Guruswamy | Brics' real value: One step towards new world order

What we need is a true power shift that reflects the emerging economic, political and military realities

27 July 2022 7:43 AM IST

A student wave the Indian national flag as she performs during Indias Independence Day celebrations, in Jammu, India, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Celebrating spirit of freedom

The earlier restrictions to do with preserving respect to the most visible symbol of the nation were not per se...

26 July 2022 12:35 AM IST

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh speaks during a function honouring the war heroes of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, in Guwahati, Saturday, April 23, 2022. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Rajnath's assertion on India's strength timely

Rajnath Singh asserted with pride that India was a strong nation that does not bend or bow

26 July 2022 12:33 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the I2U2 virtual Summit, in New Delhi, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (PTI Photo)

K.C. Singh | As Biden & Putin jostle, where does India stand?

Five months after the Ukraine war started, its international ramifications are still unfolding

25 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

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

Aakar Patel | Why is nation's highest court failing to act on pressing...

It has been over two years since the Citizenship Amendment Act was passed and challenged in the SC as being in violation...

25 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Neeraj Chopra. (Twitter/file photo)

AA Edit | Neeraj, Sindhu raise the bar

Chopra leads a brigade of sportspeople who are proving that cricket is not the only sport that Indians need to revel in

25 July 2022 10:34 AM IST

President Ram Nath Kovind addresses the nation on the eve of demitting office, in New Delhi, Sunday, July 24, 2022. (PTI)

AA Edit | Kovind, a President who went by the rule book

Kovind obliquely agreed with political historians who would complain that the quality of parliamentary debates has...

25 July 2022 10:32 AM IST

Shinzo Abe (AP file photo)

Sanjaya Baru | Why Shinzo Abe emerged as Japan's most significant PM

At the purely government-to-government level, the India-Japan relationship went through its ups and downs over the past...

25 July 2022 4:24 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at a press conference at the BJP office in Lucknow, Friday, Jan. 21 2022.. (PTI Photo/Nand Kumar)

Anita Katyal Yogi anti-Brahmin bias comes to fore; outrage over I-Day...

24 July 2022 12:05 AM IST

Bajrang Dal members stage a protest against the recent killings of Hindus and vandalism of a Durga idol by miscreants in Bangladesh. (PTI)

Pavan K. Varma | It's the Hindutva police versus Sanatan Dharma

Hinduism has no one God, no one mandatory text, no compulsorily prescribed form of prayer, and no Pope

23 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Ageing to perfection sneering, the fine art

Is fiery the same as a sharp tongue or does that just mean I have a bad temper

23 July 2022 11:52 PM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP)

AA Edit | Putin gains visibility on Iran trip

The one positive outcome from a face-to-face round of diplomacy helped fructify UN-brokered deal to resume Ukraine's...

23 July 2022 10:19 AM IST