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In February 2020, during US President Donald Trumps visit to India and just some weeks before the Ladakh crisis began, Mr Modi committed India to this agreement, essentially ranged against China. (Representational image: PTI)

Aakar Patel | Are India, US in military pact? It's not quite clear

With no discussion in Parliament, PM Modi began drifting India into a strategic partnership and military alliance with...

31 Aug 2021 7:03 AM IST

The XR activists were joined by Animal Rebellion activists who went on to pour red colour in the iconic fountain outside the Buckingham Palace gates. (Twitter)

10K-plus Brits wish to host Afghans; climate rebels dye Palace...

As chaos prevails and the region gets further destabilised, undoubtedly borders will get erased

30 Aug 2021 4:28 AM IST

Apart from an intensive drive for PLA recruitment, the stability of the borders seems to be the Chinese leaderships main worry. Representational Image. (AFP)

Claude Arpi | China's new ethnic ploy in Tibet: Unity via marriage?

Both New Delhi and the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala must take up this issue seriously

30 Aug 2021 3:57 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Afghan in mess, but Biden's end to US forever wars'...

What happened in Afghanistan was a process set into motion as early as the 1970s, where imperial interests were directly...

29 Aug 2021 3:24 AM IST

My giant mistake(s), on the other hand, concern my continuous inability to turn myself into a Basenji. Representational Image. (DC Image)

Kulbir Kaur | The undeniable perks of being a sly Basenji

Those who dare question the powers were earlier labelled 'anti-social', now they are 'anti-nationals'

29 Aug 2021 2:30 AM IST

Such is the strategic importance attached to rare earths that President Xi Jinping has made it a habit to flex Chinas Trade Muscle by visiting to Rare Earths Hub, mining sites and plants frequently. (Twitter)

Manish Tewari | The rare earth metal race: How India lost it to China

China currently controls nearly 90 per cent of the world's REE mining and refinement and forms the bedrock of its global...

29 Aug 2021 1:38 AM IST

In the Taliban pecking order, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar sits on top, with Mullah Mohammad Yakub, son of founder Mullah Omar, coming next. (File Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | India's options limited as Pakistan makes hay in Kabul

Three nations that didn't withdraw diplomatic missions from Kabul are Pakistan, China and Russia

28 Aug 2021 1:52 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Gender equity and literature: Are we taking things...

Literature was to be judged by its literary skill and, absolutely, by its enforcement of humanistic, humanitarian and...

28 Aug 2021 1:46 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Caste census and quotas: It's a political minefield

The Congress agreed to a caste census and then ended up by substituting it with the Socio-Economic and Caste Census in...

27 Aug 2021 1:20 AM IST

One of the implications of climate change that has not received much attention is its impact on civilisations. Representational Image. (ANI)

Glasgow COP is near: Fix rewards for aggressive mitigation of goal

The race to keep global climate stable seems irrevocably loaded against us, already

27 Aug 2021 1:08 AM IST

Babus' equality'? Mid-career course at Mussoorie will lose IAS-only...

Mr Gauba's predecessor P.K. Sinha held the post well beyond his two-year tenure thanks to several extensions

26 Aug 2021 1:58 AM IST

Students wearing facemasks sit in a classroom after their school was reopened in Colombo, Sri Lanka. AFP Photo

Patralekha Chatterjee | Reopen schools, but keep ground realities in...

Online education has certainly helped many children but the pandemic has also exposed the glaring fault lines in our...

26 Aug 2021 1:55 AM IST