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Youngsters stage a protest against the newly announced Agnipath scheme, at Jalandhar-Delhi national highway, in Jalandhar, on Saturday. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Anger on streets over Agnipath reflects how New India...

There are no jobs in New India and the anger over the changes in the Army recruitment system is emblematic of a much...

20 Jun 2022 11:29 PM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Home minister Amit Shah during a meeting in Patna. (PTI file photo)

AA Edit | Why rewrite history?

Nitish Kumar's wonderment about how history can be revisited is as much pregnant with political meaning as the call of...

19 Jun 2022 11:39 PM IST

Indian army soldiers are seen near the site of a gunbattle between suspected militants and government security forces at Moachwah in Chadoora area of Budgam district on the outskirts of Srinagar on October 28, 2020. (AFP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Agnipath to transform our military, so give it a...

Transformation always means wholescale uprooting of the old and planting of the new. Agnipath is a subset of the...

19 Jun 2022 11:20 PM IST

A train set on fire by a crowd in protest against the Centres Agnipath scheme, at Danapur Railway station, near Patna, on Friday, 2022. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Arson, vandalism aren't the way to protest; stop lunacy

Let us end all violence in the name of protest. You don't have a right to destroy another citizen, or their property

19 Jun 2022 11:18 PM IST

Britains Home Secretary Priti Patel. (Photo:AP file)

Kishwar Desai | Big hats are all the rage after Jubilee; Charles in...

Home secretary Priti Patel has shocked everyone by executing a bold scheme to transport all illegal immigrants to Rwanda

19 Jun 2022 11:13 PM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Aah... the folly of youth 'twas to other' the old!

It's not about how old you are. Maybe it's about how old you make yourself out to be

19 Jun 2022 12:18 AM IST

The louder pre-alarm alarm for the news media in India and elsewhere is that not only has trust been declining, interest in news appears to have fallen across the world: a huge plunge from 63 per cent last year to 52 per cent this year. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Why people are avoiding news; and what must be done to fix things

Only 42 per cent of respondents said they trust news

19 Jun 2022 12:09 AM IST

The new generation nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni P being successfully tested by the DRDO from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam island off the coast of Odisha, on Dec. 18, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | The deterrence dynamic in India-China-Pak triad

No First Use benchmark was considered unique to Chinese strategic thinking

18 Jun 2022 11:40 PM IST

President Joe Biden speaks about Ukraine in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

AA EDIT | Biden's job a poisoned chalice

Midway into the second year of his term, the US President finds his approval ratings falling to a record low

17 Jun 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)

AA EDIT | Bulldozers: SC's signal to UP govt crystal clear

The court made it clear that it hardly mattered who approached the court as long as their case merited legal...

17 Jun 2022 11:55 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Trouble mounts for BoJo all over UK: Will Rwanda come...

Today the British government claims that Rwanda is the safest, most progressive, internationally engaged country in...

17 Jun 2022 11:02 PM IST

FILE- Authorities demolish the residence of activist Javed Ahmad they say has been constructed illegally in Prayagraj, India, Sunday, June 12, 2022. (AP Photo)

Patralekha Chatterjee | A breakdown of governance? We need healing,...

A bulldozer is not an accessory of good governance. And stone pelting is not the way to progress

17 Jun 2022 9:24 PM IST