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President Joe Biden is not off the mark when he says that the challenge to liberal democracy as a system of governance is not yet over, nor perhaps shall ever be so. (Representational Image. AP)

K.C Singh | Biden red lines' welcome in global democracy push

A debate among political scientists has been persisting for some time over the state of democracies globally

7 Dec 2021 2:17 AM IST

Twenty-three crore Indians fell into poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic and the unemployment rate, which had already reached a post-1947 high of six per cent by 2018, remains there. (Representational Image. PTI)

Aakar Patel | From Dec 2019 to Dec 2021: A time of trouble, problems...

The state today has no democracy and is the only Indian state/Union territory without an elected government

7 Dec 2021 1:57 AM IST

The Sharad Pawar-Mamata Banerjee meeting in Mumbai recently signalled a closing of ranks between two successful parties, both offshoots from the Congress and its formidable legacy. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | As Indian polity matures, new politics is on the...

For both the smaller regional parties and the Congress, the BJP is the common enemy

6 Dec 2021 2:31 AM IST

Omicron has taken over our Christmas in a way no one expected. (Representational Image. AFP)

Kishwar Desai | No kisses under the mistletoe; but shouldn't libraries...

Students from Kings College are in the middle of a protest saying that they would like to remain in the library for 24...

6 Dec 2021 1:25 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | Stolen naps and other secrets from the library

The library was a large quiet hall full of bookshelves with the librarian in a cubicle near the door and a couple of...

5 Dec 2021 1:46 AM IST

Police officer pays tribute to the martyrs at the Police Martyrs Memorial to mark the 13th anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, in Mumbai, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | Why 26/11 required a kinetic response

It, however, is a serious matter of discussion as to how Pakistan perceived the policy of strategic restraint

5 Dec 2021 1:15 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Style matters: Of dress codes and asserting...

This, gentle reader, is an idle musing on a detail of our great, contemporary, egalitarian world

3 Dec 2021 11:48 PM IST

Over the last week of October 2021, the UN-sponsored Global Media and Information Week in South Africa, with Indias participation, resolved to fight disinformation by improving peoples ability to counter it. (Photo: UNICEF)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Can media literacy efforts ensure info...

In India and many other countries where media literacy is still in its infancy, the discourse is still largely basic

3 Dec 2021 11:14 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit via video, from Beijing on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021 (Li Xueren/Xinhua via AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Fire in water: China in big Indian Ocean push

CPC has moved on to its mega snow-to-sea drive after completing its land, trade, commerce, banking and telecom...

3 Dec 2021 7:52 AM IST

People get inoculated with the dose of the Covaxin Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a temporary vaccination camp inside a school in Mumbai. (Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | The Greek alphabet is still roiling our lives

Omicron is the fifth such VOC, and the first since the Delta (B.1.617) variant which ravaged so many countries

2 Dec 2021 2:49 AM IST

Supreme Court (PTI)

Dilip Cherian | Repatriated as future Gujarat chief secy, babu awaits...

The Supreme Court has ruled that successful UPSC aspirants do not have the right to be allocated the cadre of their...

2 Dec 2021 2:21 AM IST

Not surprisingly, a majority of teachers facing challenges in teaching said that children were unable to catch up with the curriculum (65.4 per cent). (Representational Image. PTI)

Rukmini Banerji and Wilima Wadhwa | Covid effect: Changes in schooling...

The drop in private school enrolment was accompanied by more children not being in school rather than a shift to...

1 Dec 2021 1:30 AM IST