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Can democracy survive the Big Tech onslaught?

Big Tech, in a way unimaginable even a couple of decades ago, today has a stranglehold on information dissemination &...

28 Jan 2022 3:22 AM IST

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman chairs the 6th Pre-Budget consultation with the representatives of Services Sector including stakeholders from Health, Education, Rural Development and Water & Sanitation Sectors, in connection with the forthcoming Union Budget 2022-23. (PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Use Budget to offer relief, win back trust of...

Budgets in India, by and large, are mostly a grand occasion for initiating policy change

28 Jan 2022 2:45 AM IST

Workers wearing face masks to help protect from the coronavirus set up a decoration for the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022. (AP)

Maura Moynihan | Beijing ready for world's biggest party: Genocide...

The Chinese were awarded the 2008 Summer Olympic Games with the promise of 'improved human rights'

27 Jan 2022 3:54 AM IST

Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) shows a hologram of the statue of Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose that was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi. (AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | RSS and freedom struggle: Still in search of...

One now has to see the move to instal the statue of Subhas Chandra Bose in the vacant canopy on Rajpath as another act...

27 Jan 2022 3:03 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Why Netaji is at centrestage: Will history...

The improbable return of Netaji into India's mainstream politics would have jeopardised the career paths of leaders of...

26 Jan 2022 2:25 AM IST

SC allows Air India to fly for ten days with middle seats filled in scheduled aircraft. (PTI Photo)

Dilip Cherian | Before Tata takeover, Air India gets new CMD

Clearly, the appointment of the 1993-batch officer is an indication that the takeover of Air India is delayed

26 Jan 2022 1:17 AM IST

But Tagore was a staunch nationalist at heart, a man who had composed the tune to Vande Mataram which animated the protests against the partition of Bengal in 1905.

Raja Karthikeya | The secret in 'Jana Gana Mana'

Tagore was apparently asked by a British friend to write a eulogy to King George V during his visit to India in 1911

25 Jan 2022 4:45 PM IST

Dharam Sansad was held at Ved Niketan Dham in Haridwar for three days from December 16 to 19. (Photo: Screengrab)

Aakar Patel | Listen to what the world says: Step back from the...

It is not safe to be dismissive about words like genocide, but unfortunately, that is what India is doing today

25 Jan 2022 12:06 AM IST

In this file photo taken on October 1, 2019, Chinese troops march during a military parade in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (Representational photo:AFP)

K.C. Singh | How absolutist policy can make a nation less secure

Taking the cue from Jia, one needs to ask whether viewing the region through the prism of 'absolute national security'...

24 Jan 2022 11:47 PM IST

This handout photograph taken on January 23, 2022 and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) shows a hologram of the statue of Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose that was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi. (AFP)

Anita Katyal | Statue's location is a little curious; AAP starts trend...

Modi government decided to instal a statue of Subhas Chandra Bose under the colonial canopy at Delhi's iconic India Gate

24 Jan 2022 2:25 AM IST

Sanjaya Baru | Pakistan's geo-economic' pivot to national security

However, to be able to make use of this geo-economic opportunity, says the NSPP, Pakistan has to modernise its economy

24 Jan 2022 2:00 AM IST

Former finance minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram. (PTI)

Pavan K. Varma | PC is wrong; TMC offered Goa tie-up, didn't hear back

Details such as seat sharing, & other modalities of fighting the election in alliance, would have followed, should the...

23 Jan 2022 3:00 AM IST