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PM Modi inaugurates first ever optical fibre cable project for Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (PTI Photo)

Can CMs help India set up political alternative?

The current wisdom, and most opinion polls, indicate that the PM's popularity is overwhelming

14 Oct 2020 10:04 PM IST

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders slammed the state governments decision to serve a notice to former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu on Friday, claiming that the current chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy is unaware of basic procedures. (Photo: ANI)

Edit | India's judiciary must be above suspicion

The political rivalry between YSRC chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and his arch-rival Telugu Desam chief N Chandrababu...

12 Oct 2020 11:33 PM IST

Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane and Harsh V Shringla, Foreign Secretary along with Saurabh Kumar called on State Counsellor H.E. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. (Via Indian Embassy in Myanmar)

Sunanda K Datta Ray | Tackle Xi in Myanmar but don't forget the...

The electoral outcome is bound to leave a heavy imprint on Myanmar's place on the chequerboard of Asia's power politics

12 Oct 2020 11:21 PM IST

Indias services activity collapses as coronavirus palayses global economy. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | If you do not admit there's a crisis, you can't solve...

The problem is a major one, and it affects not just the Prime Minister but hundreds of millions of people across the...

12 Oct 2020 10:55 PM IST

Indian PM Narendra Modi with US president Donald Trump. (PTI)

Edit | India must not buy into United States' rhetoric on China

The tenor of the US criticism of Xi's China has of late taken on a sharp political and ideological dimension.

12 Oct 2020 10:40 PM IST

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das addresses via livestream as he announces the central banks monetary policy decisions, in Mumbai. PTI photo

Edit | India's economic recovery is contingent on curbing COVID-19

A full recovery in the economy, therefore, would be incumbent on how fast the world defeats the coronavirus.

12 Oct 2020 6:40 PM IST

A pedestrian walks past a poster of a person wearing a face covering, in the high street in west London. AFP photo

Ill, Boris had a harder time; virus blow to James Bond

The only constant is that like the scientists, the government is also at a loss

12 Oct 2020 3:58 PM IST

Farmers light candles in support of the Haryana farmers organisations as they announced to protests against three farm laws on the outskirts of Amritsar. PTI photo

Manish Tewari | How farm laws might hurt national security

After the 1965 war the MSP regime and public procurement were introduced in 1966-67 for wheat and later expanded to...

12 Oct 2020 3:22 PM IST

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson maintains a minutes silence to honour the frontline workers who lost their lives in the coronavirus outbreak. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Will India too leave divided histories', like US &...

The mass support, diverse and white for BLM, indicates that Britain too wants to leave divided histories behind.

11 Oct 2020 8:52 AM IST

An ineffective outcome seems to be written into the project because it glosses over the ground realities and betrays short-sightedness and ignorance of the political canvas on which the CAA law in reaction to which Shaheen Bagh has sprung has been inscribed. (Photo: G.N. JHA)

AA Edit | Spare the commuter from the Shaheen Bagh protests

The court was categorical in rejecting the argument that citizens have an absolute right of peaceful protest

9 Oct 2020 4:28 PM IST

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Chief Chirag Paswan along with party leaders after the meeting ahead of Bihar Assembly elections, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

AA Edit | LJP's Bihar poll games bare BJP's secret hand

It also invites us to reflect on the BJP's relationship with allies once the saffron party has gains in strength

9 Oct 2020 4:18 PM IST

Indias Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (lower L), Japans Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (lower R), Japans Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (centre R), Australias Foreign Minister Marise Payne (centre L) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (top L) attend a Quad Indo-Pacific meeting at the prime ministers office in Tokyo. AP Photo

K.C.Singh | Can Quad' grow into a force that China fears?

This week's Quad meeting was timely also because Japan had a change of leadership, with the ailing Abe passing the baton...

9 Oct 2020 4:05 PM IST