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Not counting the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had just begun his innings, Karnataka has handed the BJP its worst electoral drubbing in Mr Modis nine years in power, when he has presided over not just the Union government but also over his partys fate, bending it to his every wish. (Photo: PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | The Need For A Common And Secular Civil Code

All personal laws in India are misogynistic and medieval.

4 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

File photo of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky walking along tranches with border guard officers as he inspects the state border with Russian Federation in Sumy region. (Ukrainian Presidential Press/AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | Would-be winners in Ukraine war lurching towards far...

The alarming surge of the far-right in Germany, according to the latest opinion polls, shouldn't surprise the political...

3 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

Government of Indias Representative and Interlocutor for Naga Peace Talks and Nagaland Governor, RN Ravi on Friday held a detailed consultation meeting with the primary stakeholders of the Naga society in Kohima and said that the central government is determined to conclude the Naga peace process. (Photo: ANI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Check governors trying to exceed their powers

In the past nine years, it has become commonplace for governors to block legislation passed by state Assemblies.

3 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

ChatGPT can formulate legal notes, spot humanly undetectable diseases, and write computer code. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Shashi Warrier | Will ChatGPT spell end of exams and teachers?

Have you used ChatGPT?

2 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

Sixty four per cent of capital outlays in the military budget of 2021 were earmarked for acquisitions of domestically produced arms. (Representational image: DC)

Manish Tewari | India's Defence Conundrum is Russia Over-Dependence

Russia's unprovoked aggression against Ukraine was again such an unknown

2 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. Johns, Newfoundland (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of May Balls in Cambridge as Titan adventure' ...

When the debris is examined by submarine experts, we shall probably know how the disaster occurred

1 July 2023 11:58 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers a toast during a State Dinner with President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington. (Photo: PTI)

Shobhaa De | After Biden, Modi-MuskSangam Hoga Ki Nahi?

In order to take the new India-US love affair forward in more concrete terms, India will need to work much harder to woo...

1 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee greets Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar during a joint press conference after opposition parties meeting, in Patna, Friday, June 23, 2023. RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge are also seen. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Opposition needs a credible face to...

The next meeting in Shimla, on July 10 or 12, becomes important on the way forward to Opposition unity

30 Jun 2023 2:49 AM IST

Enforcement Directorate. (Representational Image)

Dilip Cherian | Scare in Maha after ED action in Covid jumbo centres...

The worries among IAS and IPS officers escalated further following the ED's questioning of municipal commissioner Iqbal...

29 Jun 2023 12:10 AM IST

Representational image . (Source: wikipedia)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | The politics of geography and how societies...

The demography of geography creates society, economy, polity, the rise and fall of empires and their borders, as well as...

29 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

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

Sunil Gatade | Is Modi's BJP now down with the BB' syndrome?

Dissidents within the BJP are in silent mode, and if they remain silent, they will do their job silently

28 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

The UCC cannot, by its very definition, be a state subject. We cant have different uniform civil codes; we cant end communal and cultural heterogeneity in favour of state-level UCCs. (Representational image: image courtesy m.dailyhunt.in)

Aakar Patel | Why the BJP is pushing hard for a Uniform Civil Code now

It's not only one community that will see its personal laws on inheritance, marriage, divorce change, but all...

27 Jun 2023 12:10 AM IST