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: Protesters throw stones on security personnel after an encounter with militants, at Batamaloo in Srinagar. PTI Photo

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmiris respond to Centre with Gupkar II'

Its defining feature can be summed by a phrase in it: nothing about us without us

18 Sept 2020 6:37 PM IST

Facebook is facing questions on its ways in several countries of the world. (AFP)

Freedom and bias: How Facebook is facing a reckoning

This year marks Facebook's growth from innocence to experience

17 Sept 2020 8:12 PM IST

BJP wrote a letter to home minister Anil Deshmukh urging him to roll out a more aggressive action plan to protect Mumbai police. (PTI Photo)

Dilli ka Babu | 7 former DGPs jump in to defend Mumbai police

Their petition to Bombay High Court says there are sinister designs behind the campaign

17 Sept 2020 7:56 PM IST

Social activists display placards during a press conference over police probe on Delhi riots cases, at Press Club of India in New Delhi

AA Edit | Gross misuse of anti-terrorism laws

Delhi police arrested Umar Khalid, a former student leader of the Jawaharlal Nehru University for inciting violence'...

16 Sept 2020 6:17 PM IST

The UAPA and other special laws like CSPSA are called black laws because the crimes they seek to cover could be dealt with under IPC and because these laws give special, unaccountable power to the police. PTI Photo

Bela Bhatia | Lockdown for some, lockup for others

More humane provisions are needed for prisoners, including political prisoners and those charged under special laws

16 Sept 2020 5:39 PM IST

Farmers take a tea break in a paddy field in Pulwama district, south of Srinagar on September. AFP Photo

Export agro-produce to create rural prosperity

India is exporting a very small percentage of total agricultural products produced in quantitative terms

16 Sept 2020 4:46 PM IST

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh

AA Edit | Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the mathematician whose formula...

Dr Singh, a PhD in mathematics and a former professor, had his political baptism in the Jayaprakash movement against...

15 Sept 2020 5:40 PM IST

File image of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. (ANI)

Aakar Patel | Jaishankar's prescriptions are simplistic, just excuses

The assumption Jaishankar makes about liberalisation automatically producing economic growth is false

15 Sept 2020 5:09 PM IST

Despite having two often widely overlapping LACs, Indian and Chinese forces had arrived at a unique modus vivendi since 1962 which enabled each side to patrol up to its perception of the LAC without confrontation. PTI Photo

Mohan Guruswamy | Mediation vital on LAC, Ladakh disengagement

The problem is that India and China never agreed on where the LAC was, as the perceptions of what each side controlled ...

15 Sept 2020 4:48 PM 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 | Investigation into Delhi riots is turning into a...

Clearly, these new revelations strategically hyped by the police is part of its partisan agenda to discredit the...

14 Sept 2020 7:20 PM IST

Shiv Sena alleged that the letter written by 23 senior Congress leaders to Sonia Gandhi was a conspiracy to finish off Rahul Gandhis leadership. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | It's status quo once again for Congress

The country deserves an Opposition which can hold the government accountable

14 Sept 2020 6:47 PM IST

Indian Army convoy moves towards Leh via Manali-Leh road, near Manali. PTI Photo

Ruchi Ghanashyam | Staring at Dragon's eyes: India must stay on guard

India has demanded China restore the status quo, while China blames India, claiming sovereignty over the area

14 Sept 2020 6:26 PM IST