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Senior IPS officer V.K. Singh

Dilli Ka Babu: Senior cop disgruntled by delayed promotion

Turns out that at least six states have witnessed a rather quick turnover of principal health secretaries during the...

10 Jun 2020 6:31 PM IST

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen arrives during her visit to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Taipei. (AFP)

Skand Tayal | Heed Sardar: Rethink China line, ramp up Taiwan links

The subtle messages being sent by the Sangh Parivar on Tibet and Taiwan should be examined very seriously by Beijing

10 Jun 2020 2:57 AM IST

Doctors examines people during a free medical camp in Dharavi, one of Asias largest slums in Mumbai. PTI Photo

Manish Tewari | India's bankruptcy of infra, ideas on display

After the lockdown was announced it is indeed intriguing why the health minister Harshvardhan was not briefing the...

10 Jun 2020 2:19 AM IST

Minneapolis has 900 officers in its ranks and yet representation of the African American community therein is next to nil. AP Photo

AA Edit | Safety not so much as policing

With protests following Floyd's death claiming around 18 American lives, discussions are on as to how to accomplish the...

9 Jun 2020 8:26 PM IST

A farmer plows his field with the help of a tractor before planting paddy saplings, at a village on the outskirt of Amritsar. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Rural jobs scheme an unmissable solution

The scheme, introduced by the first UPA government in 2005, guaranteesmanual work to every adult in rural India for at...

9 Jun 2020 8:13 PM IST

In this file photo taken on August 29, 2019 a Changpa nomad shepherd puts pashmina goats out to pasture near Korzok village in the Leh district of Ladakh. AP Photo

Aakar Patel | China's long-term game: What does it really want?

From May, China has physically stopped Indian patrols from proceeding beyond Finger 4, effectively giving China full...

9 Jun 2020 4:57 PM IST

Cities across Europe and elsewhere in the world filled with demonstrations decrying racism in America. AFP Photp

Maura Moynihan | US in turmoil: Is China instigating the violence?

The rapid escalation of violence in recent days has the American media focused mainly on the militarisation of the...

8 Jun 2020 6:35 PM IST

The lockdown is beginning to splinter with the cabinet issuing confusing instructions to citizens. AFP Photo

Kishwar Desai | Boris Johnson loses clout in Parliament

Having survived Covid, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson is going through an annihilation by politics

8 Jun 2020 6:18 PM IST

The likes of Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma were fortunate not to have been booked because of the existence of the same kind of double standard. AP Photo

AA Edit | Double standards and how!

The criminalisation of every protest staged by aggrieved Indians is clear in all dissent being viewed as a potential law...

8 Jun 2020 5:54 PM IST

Most experts agree that the first such move, the national lockdown, indeed helped but the government did little to make use of the opportunity to prepare the nation for a successful engagement with the virus later on. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Centre can't stand by and watch at this critical hour

There are no immediate chances of the numbers going down what with the Union government allowing opening of more social...

8 Jun 2020 5:32 PM IST

Volunteers wearing protective suits conduct thermal tests at Dharavi, during the fifth phase of the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Mumbai. PTI Photo

Nilofar Suhrawardy | Covid paranoia, and some cogitations

Frankly, seeing everyone in almost same type and colour of masks is just making this lockdown phase more uninteresting

7 Jun 2020 5:52 PM IST

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar

Waqyanawis | What got Sharad's tongue when it came to PM-Cares?

Opposition parties constantly attack the opacity of PM-Cares fund but the joint Opposition meeting didn't have any...

7 Jun 2020 5:13 PM IST