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The BJPs worries have found reflection in a series of haphazard steps taken by the party or the government. (PTI File Image)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Many worries for BJP as semi-final' vote looms

The ultra-nationalistic narrative emerged as the overarching narrative, clearly missing at this stage.

5 Nov 2023 11:38 PM IST

In this photograph taken on July 22, 2016, a Premiere Padmini taxi is parked alongside other taxis outside a railway station in the Indian city of Mumbai. (AFP PHOTO / INDRANIL MUKHERJEE)

Ranjona Banerji | The dashing kaali-peeli drivers of Mumbai

What made the Mumbai kaali-peeli my lifeline were the people, not the cars.

5 Nov 2023 12:08 AM IST

Palestinians inspect the damage of a house destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. AP/PTI

Manish Tewari | To foil wider conflict, Israel must stop sacking of...

Is a disproportionately asymmetric conventional response to an outrage perpetrated by semi-state actors warranted?

5 Nov 2023 12:05 AM IST

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP/PTI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Hamas terrorists' or militants': A word storm as Gaza...

The BBC has stubbornly refused to call the Hamas personnel terrorists . The BBC has called them militants .

3 Nov 2023 11:58 PM IST

Delhis air quality slips to severe category. (AA File Image)

Shobhaa De | Diwali dhamakas galore amid Mahua soap opera!

Even without the haze, there is a great deal of toxicity out there, folks.

3 Nov 2023 11:55 PM IST

Under this reshuffle, the 1989-batch IPS officer of Uttarakhand cadre Safi Ahsan Rizvi and five other officers have been promoted as Special Directors in the IB from the post of Additional Directors.(Representational Image/File)

Dilip Cherian | Central posting of Gujarat IPS officers sets off huge...

13 IPS officers from various states were initially shortlisted for Central deputation

3 Nov 2023 12:17 AM IST

Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP/PTI)

Indranil Banerjie | World's outrage over Gaza war is selective

Tel Aviv has only itself to blame for the October 7 carnage, which is the result of a failure to accept the two-state...

3 Nov 2023 12:11 AM IST

Israeli army tanks move towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel Wednesday, Nov.1, 2023. Israeli ground forces have been operating in Gaza in recent days as Israel presses ahead with its war against Hamas militants. AP/PT

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | In hate wars' of today, no one can be a winner

The two major conflicts raging today have the distinct flavour of hate war .

2 Nov 2023 12:03 AM IST

Pakistans former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. (AFP)

Kamal Davar | Can Nawaz Sharif improve ties with India if he's back at...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif may have rekindled some hope for normalcy to return to Pakistan

1 Nov 2023 12:00 AM IST

TMC MP Mahua Moitra speaks with the media, in Kolkata, on Tuesday. (Image: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Ethics, politics and the art of lobbying, wooing...

The tale is not the alleged cash that Mahua Moitra received; the tale is of two legislators

1 Nov 2023 12:00 AM IST

Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar takes part in a press conference in Bangkok on August 17, 2022. (Jack TAYLOR / AFP)

Aakar Patel | It's time to rethink India's role in the world; if it's...

All South Asian nations except India voted to end the violence in Gaza.

31 Oct 2023 12:05 AM IST

Qatars Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani issued an emiri decree renewing the membership of some Shura Council members and appointing 28 new members to include women for the first time in the history of the... council, said a statement. (Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | Fissures in the Gulf region test for India's diplomacy

Qatar is not a small Gulf nation that can be cajoled or browbeaten.

31 Oct 2023 12:05 AM IST