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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy examines the site of a recent battle in Bucha close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Kyiv counter-offensive: A possible last stand?

A counter-offensive always aims deep and is designed to unhinge the adversary's defenses

14 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

Social activist and preacher Father Stan Swamy. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Don't forget 16 of Bhima Koregaon: It's symbol of what...

Stan Swamy, suffering from Parkinson's disease, was disallowed a glass with a sipper straw in jail for weeks

13 Jun 2023 12:10 AM IST

Before Gogra, Indian and Chinese troops had disengaged from Galwan Valley and Pangong Tso in Ladakh. Representational image/PTI

Mohan Guruswamy | India-China LAC: Is give & take possible after...

In the Galwan Valley, China's People's Liberation Army found an unguarded but very strategic spot on the LAC and...

13 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

People at a medical camp organised by Army, in an area of Manipur. (PTI Photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The sounds of a silent Internet in Manipur

Manipur is a leader in Internet access. 44.8 per cent of Manipuri women and 73.9 per cent of Manipuri men have access to...

12 Jun 2023 12:15 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Photo: AP)

Kishwar Desai | Tories may lose critical bypoll; dithers beset by a...

Now begins a massive inquiry on whether the Covid pandemic was properly handled by the Boris Johnson government.

12 Jun 2023 12:13 AM IST

Cover photo of Vajpayee: The Ascent of Hindu Right 1924-1977 by Abhishek Chaudhary. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Vajpayee never a liberal but Hindu Right's first spin...

Perhaps, he can be said to be the first of spin-doctors of the Hindu right, where conviction was not necessary,...

11 Jun 2023 12:28 AM IST

Cover photo of Medical Maladies: Stories of Disease and Cure From Indian Languages edited by Haris Qadeer. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Illness as a metaphor for the Indian condition

All in all, a book that draws attention to the vibrancy of writing in the bhashas and the range and variety of topics...

11 Jun 2023 12:24 AM IST

Cover photo of Soft Animal by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Lockdown and the homemaker blues

Well written enough that I got through it without wanting to bang my head against a wall.

11 Jun 2023 12:18 AM IST

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw (ANI)

Anita Katyal | Vaishnaw's CM hopes take a hit; Kanhaiya unites...

Since Mr Vaishnaw hails from Raj, the party has drawn up plans to promote him in its election campaign in the desert...

11 Jun 2023 12:10 AM IST

How do you expect the world to see her newborn glow if you kill it yourself with the klieg light youve turned on her? (Representational Image)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The needy universe of social media...

When parents suck up to their kids in public, the intent needs to be examined

11 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

BSP president Mayawati. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan Varma | Mayawati: Forgotten leader with a winning poll formula

Mayawati had no political godfathers. Her father worked in the post-office in a village near Dadri in UP

11 Jun 2023 12:00 AM IST

India has invited Pakistans defence minister Khawaja Asif for a SCO defence ministers meeting to be held in New Delhi in April. (File Photo: PTI)

K.C. Singh | SCO summit turns virtual due to its structural flaws

If Covid-19 was still swirling or there was some other emergency or natural disaster, such change could be explained

10 Jun 2023 12:10 AM IST