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The entire Ayodhya temple project has, in fact, been a massive enterprise in the politics of bigotry in which religion is whipped up as a mobilising tool. PTI Photo

Anand K Sahay | Why Ayodhya was not like battle for freedom

The Kashmir-to-Ayodhya common template was clearly intended to overtly demonstrate the suppression of Muslim aspirations...

14 Aug 2020 5:07 PM IST

Recep Tayyip Erdogan (PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | Will Erdogan's Islamist play at Hagia Sophia rescue his...

A powerful anti-West Islamist party, Refah, or Welfare, took shape and spread like prairie fire

13 Aug 2020 7:48 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi (AFP)

AA Edit | PM mantra' old hat, should fund state fights

The World Health Organisation has been talking of increased number of tests from the very start of the campaign against...

13 Aug 2020 7:22 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi being presented with a memento by Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath during the Ayodhya Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan (PTI)

Nilofar Suhrawardy | Ayodhya glory will fade amid Covid tension before...

It cannot be ignored that the virus has left Indians a little too tense to remain distracted by his Ayodhya show for...

12 Aug 2020 5:25 PM IST

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N.V. Subramanian | Afghans face turmoil: Back to a dark future

Afghanistan has an excess of local and foreign actors compounding its misery

12 Aug 2020 5:14 PM IST

Workers hang dyed yarn for drying under the sun as seen on the National Handloom Day at a textile mill, in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. PTI Photo

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Make India stronger in order to take on China

As Dr Manmohan Singh, has always reiterated, the Asian ecosystem has ample space for India and China both to grow...

12 Aug 2020 4:58 PM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (AFP)

AA Edit | Truce in Raj Cong, but rift still needs solution

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has set up a three-member committee

12 Aug 2020 4:46 PM IST

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Vishnu Prakash | Will Kashmir turn into heaven on earth' again?

The state was also exempted from all the laws of the land, unless specifically adopted by its own Legislative Assembly

11 Aug 2020 5:26 PM IST

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Aakar Patel | India losing its Mahabharat against Covid?

India is the only nation, to repeat, that has consistently been going up in terms of number of cases from the start till...

11 Aug 2020 5:15 PM IST

Those who lost their lives in the fire at Vijayawadas five-storey Swarna Palace hotel, taken on lease by Ramesh Hospital, are more than mere statistics

AA Edit | Covid-19 facility fires offer safety lesson

Unplanned construction in densely-populated areas remains the biggest threat

11 Aug 2020 4:52 PM IST

In Sri Lanka, the Sinhalese perhaps chose the Rajapaksa family because they were enamored by the way prominent brothers, Mahinda and Gotabaya, ruthlessly quelled the LTTE in 2009. AP Photo

AA Edit | A nation turns family property in the Sri Lankan elections

Political trends that lead to the concentration of power in the hands of a family yanks democracy off the feet of...

10 Aug 2020 5:57 PM IST

The Airports Authority of India, which runs the airport, and the government of Kerala must act in tandem. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Air India flight crash at Kozhikode highlights air safety...

The tabletop airport, which is traditionally considered accident prone, needs expansion of its runway

10 Aug 2020 5:37 PM IST