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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | 2023 was a stormy year: Will 2024 be any better?

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | 2023 was a stormy year: Will 2024 be any...

2023 was a grim reminder of the dangers that threaten a world without powerful leadership

1 Jan 2024 12:05 AM IST

Actor Matthew Perry at the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre. (Photo: Getty Images)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Roast the Rogues, Tricksters are Toast

Matthew Perry's death felt like the passing of a real pal.

31 Dec 2023 12:06 AM IST

Cambridge Dictionary has announced hallucinate as its Word of the Year. (Image: Twitter)

Manish Tewari | A Year That Blurred The Line Between Truth and...

Cambridge Dictionary has announced hallucinate as its Word of the Year.

31 Dec 2023 12:00 AM IST

UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. (PTI File Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of clowns' and politics in UK: When a joke isn't a...

Controversial Banter: UK Home Secretary's Ill-Advised Joke Sparks Outrage and Calls for Resignation

30 Dec 2023 1:53 AM IST

For us, here in India, 2024 is likely to be the single most significant year in the nations history. (Image by starline on Freepik)

Shobhaa De | 2024 is almost here Are you ready for it?

What happens in April-May will set the country on a course which some believe may mark a journey of no return for the...

30 Dec 2023 1:24 AM IST

Indias general election, the worlds largest, is likely to be held sometime in the first half of 2024. (Image by Freepik - pikusuperstar)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Several questions as we look back at 2023,...

Looking ahead necessarily means factoring in the country's contradictions and working much harder on the problem areas

28 Dec 2023 11:33 PM IST

Retired Punjab IAS officer Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh. (WHO)

Dilip Cherian | Bhutan's Order of Merit to ex-IAS showcases...

Her pivotal role in advancing transformative healthcare in Bhutan has elevated India's status as a key partner in...

27 Dec 2023 11:22 PM IST

Indias economy sprang a pleasant surprise last week by registering better than expected growth of 7.6 per cent in the July-September quarter as against the RBIs projected growth rate of 6.5 per cent. (Image:Twitter)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | What lies ahead: India to grow, inequality will...

India will continue to enjoy the benefits, and suffer the downsides, of political stability

27 Dec 2023 11:10 PM IST

People wearing face masks as a precautionary measure after cases of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 were detected in the country, at a hospital in Chikkamagaluru, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Chandrakant Lahariya | New variant of Covid-19, JN.1, is here, but no...

JN.1 is not a new virus but a sub-variant of BA.86, which itself is a subvariant of the Omicron variant of SARS CoV2.

26 Dec 2023 11:50 PM IST

Construction work in progress at Ayodhya Railway Station, on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The lesson from Ayodhya: How power...

The Supreme Court judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Majid case had decided the issue in terms of a property dispute.

26 Dec 2023 11:47 PM IST

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Aakar Patel | IPC gets junked: Why do we try to fix' problems that...

Almost all of post-1947 Pakistan's laws have remained the same that the British had left behind and are common across...

25 Dec 2023 11:00 PM IST

Army soldiers pay their last respects to four Army personnel killed in a recent militant attack during a wreath laying ceremony, in Rajouri, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Syed Ata Hasnain | The Rajouri encounter: It's about Pakistan's...

The security forces take much more risk to achieve while the terrorists minimise their own risk to survive and thus...

25 Dec 2023 10:54 PM IST