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PM Modis convoy stuck at the flyover. (Photo: ANI)

Pavan K. Varma | The flaw in PM's security: Rise above politics, fix...

Any attempt to politicise this matter is most deplorable. But unfortunately, this is precisely what the BJP did

9 Jan 2022 1:29 AM IST

A health worker takes a swab sample of a child for COVID-19 test, at municipal corporations testing centre at Manpada, in Thane, Saturday, January 8, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Kulbir Kaur | Covid 3.0: Help, the walls are closing in

Two Januarys earlier, Covid-19 having just spread to our enemy nation towards the north

9 Jan 2022 1:10 AM IST

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar. (PTI Photo)

Anita Katyal | Pawar struggle over Speaker's post; Mahua's fall from...

Is Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar deliberately delaying the election of a new Speaker of the Maharashtra...

9 Jan 2022 12:37 AM IST

Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik. (DC Image)

Shobhaa De | Forget Omicron: Get into the TINA, MITA, PITA groove...

Even if Omicron is a 2022 version of the common flu, it's certainly far more infectious

8 Jan 2022 2:37 AM IST

Tony Blair who was made a knight, this year. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of empires and their honours: A step backwards for UK...

The signatories believe that instead of being knighted, Tony Blair should be tried as a war criminal

8 Jan 2022 2:12 AM IST

Many of these institutions have worked in India for decades on difficult problems where government services were either inadequate or unavailable, such as leprosy and tuberculosis, healthcare and emergency relief. (Twitter)

Shikha Mukerjee | What's suspicious about overseas contributions?

For the MHA to tersely state that these institutions have been denied permission because of 'violations' is not...

7 Jan 2022 1:30 AM IST

President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in. (Twitter)

Skand Tayal | Korean lessons: Pardon politics, prosecutors, big...

This year, rather surprisingly, President Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party of Korea pardoned his predecessor, former...

6 Jan 2022 3:31 AM IST

Some 60 per cent of Indians who still depend financially on farming struggle with debt, bankruptcy and endemic suicide. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Eco mess, climate of hate, Covid: Tough days...

The World Bank reckons that its share of the gross domestic product dropped from 43 per cent in 1967 to 16 per cent in...

6 Jan 2022 1:55 AM IST

Justice Prateek Jalan ordered CBSE to consider as representation a petition by Deepa Joseph, mother of a Class 10 student studying in a CBSE affiliated school here, who had paid Rs 2,100 as examination fee. (PTI Photo)

Dilip Cherian | Secys' shuffle in Delhi: Change of guard, or is it...

Nine Central ministries and departments got new secretaries

5 Jan 2022 1:45 AM IST

Democracy is pointless without debate and discussion. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Dysfunctional Parl leads to a dysfunctional...

Legislatures and Parliaments, while meant to be self-governing, still are in need of governing

5 Jan 2022 1:23 AM IST

The storm of infection, as distinct from the waves in the past, comes quickly, runs through a community community and drops off equally fast. (Representational Image/ PTI)

K.C. Singh | Global friction, Omicron: Challenges for govt rising

According to several experts, being exposed to Omicron builds up antibodies that counter the Delta or other past strains

4 Jan 2022 3:22 AM IST

Kashmiri children look from behind a closed window of their house during a counterinsurgency operation on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. (AP)

Aakar Patel | Kashmirification & Gujaratification of India is here...

If we observe the events of the recent past, it appears he is right

4 Jan 2022 2:48 AM IST