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Ranjona Banerji | Yucky to yummy: Do our tastes change as we age?

Food and eating habits are perennial fun conversations on social media

14 May 2023 12:15 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a mega road show in the Mandya district of Karnataka on Sunday (ANI)

Pavan K. Varma | Karnataka's lesson for BJP: Divisiveness has limits

To base its electoral strategy singularly on issues such as quotas for Muslims, halal, hijab, azaan, Bajrangbali is an...

14 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

Mr Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the topic, Mr Gandhi has demanded that the government make the 2011 data on castes public and lift the 50 per cent cap on reservation for the backwards classes. (File Photo: PTI)

Anita Katyal | Rahul & Kharge share credit for victory; MP sees...

Congress kept its focus on local matters and its five guarantees while the BJP spoke only of Bajrangbali

14 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Imphal: Vehicles in flames after violence broke out during the Tribal Solidarity March called by All Tribal Student Union Manipur (ATSUM), in Imphal, Thursday, May 4, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Shutting down Internet: Govts need to do...

This is a worrying trend and one we ignore at great risk

13 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

Crowds are on the way to Buckingham Palace after the coronation ceremony for Britains King Charles III in London, Saturday, May 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Farrukh Dhondy | Sleaze, hypocrisy, fraud, corruption: The many ills...

The sin of some other nations puts the UK in the listening side of the confessional

13 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

China has warned US officials not to interfere in its relationship with India, according to a Pentagon report (PTI file photo)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | When will Indians counter China's rising...

It seems the Chinese know well that despite occasional hiccups, they can get their way with a subservient section of...

12 May 2023 12:57 AM IST

Prashant Kishor (ANI)

Dilip Cherian | What's Kishor's next move? Can he actually pose threat...

Some observers believe that he may be waiting for the right opportunity to present itself before jumping back into the...

12 May 2023 12:44 AM IST

US President Joe Biden, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the G20 leaders summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (Image: AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Amidst waffling over China, US-India embrace...

It is India's permanent dilemma that complacency about foreign policy alternatives leads to a fatal complacency about...

11 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party activists and supporters of former Pakistans Prime Minister Imran stand amid teargas fired by police during a protest against the arrest of their leader, in Lahore on May 10, 2023. (Photo: AFP)

Kamal Davar | After Imran's arrest, Army facing flak, is Pak on brink...

With a thousand fires burning now, Pakistan is also on the brink of a total economic collapse

11 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

Kochi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves at supporters during a roadshow, in Kochi, Monday, April 24, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Sunil Gatade | Karnataka 2023: Why Modi may face surprise this time

The problem which Mr Modi is facing this time is that he has not been able to make a splash

10 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar with Pakistans Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari before the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers Meeting, in Goa, Friday, May 5, 2023. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | India's foreign policy on Pak: No talking, and no...

The story in Goa of course was the rude body language we apparently displayed to him, the apparent refusal to shake...

9 May 2023 12:08 AM IST

Some 60 per cent of Indians who still depend financially on farming struggle with debt, bankruptcy and endemic suicide. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Mohan Guruswamy | Suicides are no indication of India's farmers'...

Suicide is a matter of psychology, and not of economics no matter how tempting that may be to exaggerate an issue

9 May 2023 12:05 AM IST