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The violence spreads out of Nuh, into Sona, Palwal and Gurgaon. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Look within, hate now spreading like...

Mr Modi can never go to the people on basis of his government's economic and political achievements.

4 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Farmers sort tomatoes near a field before being be transported to other cities, during the nationwide lockdown imposed in wake of coronavirus pandemic, at Murbad Taluka in Thane. PTI photo

Patralekha Chatterjee | Tomatoes and turbulence: Indians face harder...

For context, in 2021, 418 million Asians experienced extreme hunger, indicating a rise from the previous year.

3 Aug 2023 12:35 AM IST

Rupak Kumar Dutta. (DC File Photo)

Dilip Cherian | Buzz in Bengal on ex-CBI man as Mamata's security...

Some critics, however, view Mr Dutta's appointment with scepticism.

3 Aug 2023 12:02 AM IST

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma clarified that there is no instruction from the Centre to make Hindi learning compulsory. (DC)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Inter-faith unions still a threat' in Digital...

Himanta Biswa Sarma, warned Assamese youths not to cross the lakhsman rekha by marrying girls from another faith.

2 Aug 2023 12:32 AM IST

Nelson Mandela (Photo: AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Looking back at Mandela's role as world changed, Cold...

In the struggle of common purpose, progressive ideologically motivated youth had miraculously outgrown their religious...

2 Aug 2023 12:23 AM IST

Aadhaar is too important a topic to be addressed with quick fixes. (Representational Image/ PTI File)

Aakar Patel | Making Aadhaar compulsory for births, deaths to revive...

It doesn't make sense for the government to push through with the NPR exercise in these circumstances, through whatever...

1 Aug 2023 12:30 AM IST

Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a visit with first lady Jill Biden to the National Science Foundation in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday June, 21, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Are the gloves off for the Battle of 2024?...

If the Opposition is keen to nail the Narendra Modi government, it has to conduct a focused and forceful election...

1 Aug 2023 12:28 AM IST

Attempts were made to sideline Vasundhara Raje since the BJP lost the last Assembly elections.(Photo: ANI)

Sunil Gatade | BJP springs a surprise: No CM face in MP, Rajasthan,...

The BJP's decision does not really mean that it is blindly following the ek Modi sab par bhari line.

31 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

In the current Monsoon Session of Parliament, the government aims to pass the fundamentally flawed Digital Personal Data Protection Bill. (Photo by rawpixel.com Freepik)

Manish Tewari | Build legal framework for intel to safeguard privacy

The snooping saga using the Pegasus spyware is still pending adjudication in the Supreme Court.

30 July 2023 12:17 AM IST

The female mosquito uses the red liquid to raise its offspring. (Photo by brgfx on Freepik)

Sucheta Dasgupta | Why only the female mosquito lets blood

It's the female mosquito that lives off our anatomy!

30 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

French President Emmanuel Macron. (AFP File Photo)

Shobhaa De | Why we chose to go to Belgrade over Paris

We landed in Belgrade from Budapest to face white heat and an unimpressive airport.

29 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan speaks to the media as he joined London Ambulance workers in observing a minutes silence at the London Ambulance Service headquarters at Waterloo, central London, in honour of the London Bridge terror attack victims, Tuesday June 6, 2017. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | UK Labour in fix: Dilute ULEZ or allow London to...

Sadiq Khan has now proposed that the ULEZ be expanded from Inner London boroughs to the Outer ones.

29 July 2023 12:10 AM IST