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Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi chairs the Congress Working Committee meeting, in New Delhi, Sunday, March 13, 2022. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is also seen. (PTI/Kamal Singh)

Sanjay Kumar | Congress' unwillingness to change is its basic problem

The failure of talks between the Congress and PK, not just once but twice, has also damaged the party's image

3 May 2022 12:00 AM IST

Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana. (Photo:PTI)

AA Edit | Heed CJI: Failure to enforce court orders worrying trend

Officials tend to ignore court orders, forcing citizens and institutions to move court with contempt petitions

2 May 2022 12:53 AM IST

The climate is getting to be such as to be generally unhealthy for all people and especially dangerous for the vulnerable like very young children, people with chronic health conditions, the old and the poor. (Representational Image/ PTI)

AA Edit | Heatwave: Dire days ahead

There have been sufficient signs already to warn people of what may be in store

2 May 2022 12:49 AM IST

Freebies become the fig leaf that corrupt politicians and political parties use to cover their sins of omission and commission while seeking electoral support. (Representational Image/ AP)

Sanjaya Baru | Rising freebies: The fiscal price of political failures

When political parties promise free television sets, kitchenware and suchlike, they are using the taxpayer's money to...

2 May 2022 12:41 AM IST

Heres how they see us brownies: cheap, efficient, trouble-free labour.(Representational Image/ DC)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | White lies, brown noses

No one is lying sleepless and chanting the Hanuman Chalisa over our skyrocketing economic, military, yogic, and, above...

1 May 2022 2:42 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (PTI)

Anita Katyal | PK fiasco dents Priyanka image; Kejriwal calling shots...

Kejriwal and Bhagwant Singh recently signed an agreement to enable the 2 state governments to cooperate in various...

1 May 2022 2:03 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)

Pavan K. Varma | Urdu by any other faith sounds just as sweet

It is my opinion that our educational content is still considerably trapped in the colonial legacy

1 May 2022 1:21 AM IST

Photo: Biplab Banerjee Location courtesy: Oxford Bookstore, Delhi.

Farrukh Dhondy | On returning to bookshops; challenges on social media

Will the cautionary lifting of Covid-19 restrictions bring book buyers back to the bookshops to savour the browsing...

29 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

While all languages of the nation can aspire to link people of different regions, Hindi cannot claim a sole right to be the sole alternative to English, which by definition is as much an official Indian language as Hindi. (Pixabay)

AA EDIT | India has many languages

By repeating ad nauseam their preference for Hindi, some politicians of national parties are only driving a wedge

29 April 2022 11:39 PM IST

Delhi is witnessing an uptick in the number of COVID-19 cases. The city logged 1,042 fresh Covid cases with a positivity rate of 4.64 per cent on Friday. (PTI file image)

AA EDIT | Covid: Caution mandated, India not out of the woods

It is time state governments rewired the mechanism of tracking and testing along with genome testing of the positive...

29 April 2022 11:27 PM IST

Most of our Muslim brethren have observed the holy month of Ramzan, keeping rozas and praying for peace. (AP Photo)

Shobhaa De | As Id nears, stories of hope amid a toxic climate of fear

This has been one of the hottest months in recent history, and I am not talking about the heatstroke inducing...

29 April 2022 11:21 PM IST

Elon Musk-led SpaceXs satellite broadband arm Starlink said that its service is available in many countries and it will be easier for it to get government approvals if it has a high number of pre-orders from India. (AFP Photo)

AA Edit | Musk's Twitter policy unreliable

The problem is Mr Musk is not thought of as a solution to any of the imagined woes against Twitter

29 April 2022 12:35 AM IST