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Dilip Cherian | CSS babus protest delayed promotions

The DoPT secretary P. K Tripathi has assured a delegation of CSS officers that the department is fast-tracking the issue...

17 March 2022 1:09 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister & AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal with AAPs chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann, addresses a press conference ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, in Chandigarh (PTI Photo)

Anand K. Sahay | After Punjab, can AAP be a real alternative to BJP?

How the party proceeds from here will naturally be watched closely by the people of Punjab and the party's supporters...

17 March 2022 12:50 AM IST

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)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Congress like an old LP, playing the same...

People still hope the Congress leadership shall arise from its self-induced comatose state

16 March 2022 2:43 AM IST

FILE | Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a bilateral meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, in Glasgow. (Photo: PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta Ray | Crisis over Ukraine poses fresh challenge for...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is too burdened with the weight of European history, nuclear one-upmanship and Cold War...

15 March 2022 12:09 AM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | The real reason for BJP's huge UP triumph: Not...

Election victories sanctify the actions of a political party; they do not validate them

14 March 2022 11:33 PM IST

Students wearing face masks attend a class at a school that was reopened after closure for months owing to coronavirus pandemic, in Amritsar, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Schools are being opened as per guidelines issued in Unlock. 5. (PTI)

Chandrakant Lahariya | A new worry: How we need to live with Covid' in...

The daily new Covid-19 cases in the country have come down to around 4,000 to 5,000, the lowest in 22 months since May...

14 March 2022 3:14 AM IST

Tax authorities raids Chinese entities for money laundering. (PTI Photo)

DC Edit | EPF: Better safe and steady

Going forward, the fund can expect to do better as equity markets improve after emerging from recent shocks

14 March 2022 3:03 AM IST

The Supreme Court of India, too, has intervened time and again in dealing with serious lapses in police administration and violation of human rights for righting what is wrong with the police. (Representational Image/ DC)

AA Edit | Radical reforms are vital to make police accountable

Internal security during British rule revolved around instilling fear in the masses, which needed to be changed, the...

14 March 2022 2:51 AM IST

Queen Elizabeth II (Photo: AP)

Kishwar Desai | Her Majesty still not well enough; Ukraine, oil bills...

She is 95 and has just completed 70 years on the throne which is a record for Great Britain

14 March 2022 2:01 AM IST

The rickshawwallah pedals us to the arcade where Maa finds her shop, meets her lady friend and conducts her business. (Representational Image/ Pexels.com.)

Sucheta Dasgupta | Why can't we be friends?

Why is women's safety' a bugbear? Is slut-shaming and middle-class paranoia not its effect but its cause?

13 March 2022 2:46 AM IST

The post World War-II rivalry between the United States and the erstwhile USSR inaugurated a Cold War or rather an icy peace in Europe that became the principal battleground of this confrontation that soon enveloped the rest of the world as well. (representataional image/ AFP)

Manish Tewari | How the West obtusely midwifed a world order

The North Atlantic Treaty organisation (Nato) brought into existence in April 1949 with the United States as its...

13 March 2022 1:31 AM IST

AA Edit | Operation Ganga a big success

PM Modi's close ties with both Presidents, Putin and Zelenskyy facilitated the rescue of close to 20,000 students

12 March 2022 1:13 PM IST