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By threatening Twitter officials with jail and publicly contemplating the application of media laws to the social media, the government is putting on public display how spooked, rather than concerned, it is. (Photo: AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Hashtag power: Twitter, govt in fight for...

The social media has two broad roles the organisational and the dialogic, and it is the former that is spooking nervous...

23 Feb 2021 4:48 AM IST

Novak Djokovic, one of the three knights of modern tennis, turned on his best game on the hardcourt at the Rod Laver arena he can call his own backyard for having won nine times and never having been beaten in an Australian Open final. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Cyborgs of tennis

If tennis is all about eliminating errors, then Djokovic is just that champion

23 Feb 2021 4:41 AM IST

DC Edit | Withdraw restrictions on academic webinars

Has the government gone totally insane? Or is this just a way of imposing thought control through the backdoor

23 Feb 2021 4:32 AM IST

The nations that follow India on the list of those with high taxes are all European nations, plus the United States and Japan. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | Who's to blame for Rs 100 petrol: Nehru, Indira or Modi...

India's consumers pay the highest rate of tax on the petrol and diesel that they consume

23 Feb 2021 4:13 AM IST

The Chinese military too would not patrol up to Finger 3, which is Chinas claim line of 1960, which India never accepted. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | After pullback, Chinese have tactical advantage

The Chinese side imposed the condition that Indian forces will not patrol up to the Indian claim line at Finger 8

22 Feb 2021 4:48 AM IST

The Sikh diasporas expression of solidarity with Sikh farmers in India is no different from the Tamil diasporas concern about Tamils in Sri Lanka. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | Diaspora & democracy: Global Indians go local

A Sikh in Canada does not have to be a Khalistani to express concern about the fate of fellow Sikhs in India

22 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

There is a move in Australia from the unions calling for any revenue shared by the Internet giants to go into newsrooms rather than board rooms. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Big Tech must pay

Australia has joined France in pushing Internet giants like Google and Facebook to share their advertisement revenue...

22 Feb 2021 4:03 AM IST

Anita Katyal | BJP for Sourav as Bengal CM; Cong farmer cell has no...

The BJP has apparently put together a copious dossier on Ganguly and his family's business interests in its effort to...

21 Feb 2021 4:52 AM IST

Its not all sapsuckers and sappy stories. There are those harsh realities of the countryside. Of the lack of basic amenities. Health, education, migration for work. Of environmental destruction and the resultant devastation. (Photo: PTI)

Ranjona Banerji | Concrete threat, but there's bignonia, and birdsong

Dehradun has no buzz. It has higgledy-piggledy growth. Almost none of it is organic

21 Feb 2021 4:37 AM IST

It has been reported that stickers are put on the doors or entrances of those who have paid, thereby marking out those who have not. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Not much righteous about Ram temple funds drive

Fear and unlawful pressure cannot be a basis for religious or spiritual pursuits

21 Feb 2021 4:10 AM IST

The riches showered on some youngsters in this annual auction like K. Gowtham, bought by Chennai Super Kings for US $9.25 crores and M.Shahrukh Khan, picked up by the renamed Punjab Kings for Rs 1.2 crores. (Image credit : Twitter/@IPL)

AA Edit | Prince's ransom for cricketers

The timing of the commitment of millions seems a bit awkward when the world is vaccinating against the existential...

20 Feb 2021 8:06 AM IST

Congress National General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi during a Kisan Mahapanchayat in support of farmers agitation against the three farm laws, at Chandganj in Bijnor district on Feb. 15, 2021. (PTI)

AA Edit | Congress' lesson from Punjab: Set more store by local...

The lesson for India's oldest party, which now appears to be in a semi-somnolent state is that the road to revival is...

20 Feb 2021 7:41 AM IST