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A farmer leader addresses other farmers during their protest against the new farm laws, at Singhu Border in New Delhi on Wednesday, December. 16, 2020. (PTI /Ravi Choudhary)

AA Edit | Facts don't back PM's theory on farmers' stir

The farmers seem to be up against the strength of ideology rather than economic logic

17 Dec 2020 7:12 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Language row led to a new nation 49 yrs ago

Jinnah's toxic temper, mixed with arrogance, sowed the seeds of irreversible Bengali nationalism in the world's most...

16 Dec 2020 9:05 AM IST

This combination of pictures created on November 4, 2020 shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden gestures after speaking during election night at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, and US President Donald Trump speaks during election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early on November 4, 2020. - President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls closed across the United States Tuesday -- and a long night of waiting for results in key battlegrounds on the cards. (AFP)

AA Edit | Biden affirmation is a win for US democracy

Mr Biden, put it in a gracious speech in which he said realistically, 'Now it is time to turn the page'

16 Dec 2020 7:02 AM IST

AA Edit | Reckless' Kamal Haasan

He even pledges to make ministers out of at least 20 women when the mantle falls on him

16 Dec 2020 6:46 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Modi govt's real eco strategy: To let Big Biz grow &...

'Atma Nirbhar' privileges the industrialist over the consumer, but that is not the way that it is advertised

15 Dec 2020 8:54 AM IST

BJP National President JP Nadda is greeted by his party supporters on his arrival in Kolkata on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. BJP MP Locket Chatterjee is also seen. (PTI /Ashok Bhaumik)

Shikha Mukerjee | BJP in Bengal: Bruised, battered still upbeat?

The BJP in West Bengal needs to create a playbook that is in sync with the political culture of the state

15 Dec 2020 7:32 AM IST

The Supreme Court Thursday termed as Â‘totally impermissible the demand by Department of Telecom for dues of Rs 4 lakh crore. (PTI Photo)

V. Vijayasai Reddy | Justice hurried is justice buried

The speedy disposal paradigm also conflicts with the present condition of fast track courts in the country

13 Dec 2020 11:59 PM IST

Farmers carry an effigy during their ongoing Delhi Chalo agitation against the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi on Sunday, December 6 (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

AA Edit | Lessons from Delhi border

The government's propaganda machine, however, is jealous of the confident, new farmer

13 Dec 2020 11:59 PM IST

In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 a member of staff draws the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine out of a phial at the Southmead Hospital, Briston. (Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)

Shobhaa De | V is for valour, victory But V is also for vaccine!

Questions about decisions that will affect the heath and well-being of our planet will be decided by politicians!

12 Dec 2020 9:01 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Why we need to tolerate' all those who have contrary...

If language is the avatar of thought, then ideas, propositions and proofs are the recipes in the avatar's cookbook

12 Dec 2020 8:38 AM IST

BJP National President JP Nadda is greeted by his party supporters on his arrival in Kolkata on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. BJP MP Locket Chatterjee is also seen. (PTI /Ashok Bhaumik)

AA Edit | Maintain decorum and probe Nadda cavalcade stoning

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee can hardly be said to have covered herself with glory when she rhymed disparagingly on Mr...

12 Dec 2020 7:22 AM IST

Cover page of the Calligraphic copy of the Constitution of India in English released on the Golden Jubilee Celebration of Republic of India in Central Hall of Parliament House on January 27, 2000 (Photo credit: Department of Justice, Governemnt of India)

Karan Thapar | How Nehru had gutted the Constitution in 1951

So sweeping were the changes that constitutional scholar Upendra Baxi calls the post-amendment document 'the second...

11 Dec 2020 9:12 AM IST