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Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a ceremony to flag off Vande Bharat Express train connecting Howrah and New Jalpaiguri, and inaugurate other railway projects, via video conferencing, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why the global reach of a Vishwa Guru' falls...

What wisdom will this guru who can't guard India's own borders and who exports deadly lethal children's medicines impart...

5 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

There are several petitions before the Supreme Court of India challenging the constitutional validity of the law. (Representational Image/ ANI File)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | SC leaves a lot of loose ends with...

Demonetisation is mainly a policy issue, and an impartial examination of the details will show that it was done without...

4 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

7th Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan

Dinesh C. Sharma | How the Nizam in 1947 waged propaganda war against...

The propaganda war and political lobbying did result in some gains for the beleaguered Nizam

4 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

We will need to write the doctrine and the strategy, and that will not be easy for a government that prefers certitude over doubt. (Representational Image/AFP)

Aakar Patel | India's Pakistan obsession: Can doctrine shift to focus...

Building intelligence capability now to counter our primary threat China will not be easy

3 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

The Bharat Jodo Yatra is not a journey without maps . It has crept up on the existing grammar of politics. (Representational Image/PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | How the three-shell trick works in India's politics

Every politician knows, some far better than others, how to hide the dirty pea under a shell and confuse the voter about...

3 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Moroccos forward #19 Youssef En-Nesyri (C) celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal during the Qatar 2022 World Cup quarter-final football match between Morocco and Portugal at the Al-Thumama Stadium in Doha on December 10. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | World Cup show spotlights Qatar as a nation apart

When all of the GCC was quaking at Iran's emergence, Qatar maintained very practical trade relation with Iran.

2 Jan 2023 12:23 AM IST

An isolation ward for COVID-19 patients is prepared in view of rising cases of coronavirus in some countries, in Kanpur, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (PTI Photo)(

Chandrakant Lahariya | In 2023, let's try to make India a healthier...

This is India's opportunity to bring health issues to the fore globally.

2 Jan 2023 12:17 AM IST

Congress workers celebrates the partys victory in Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, in Kullu, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

M. Nageswara Rao | To survive, Cong must work on its anti-Hindu image...

In order to spring a comeback, the Congress needs to institutionalise a framework to systematically work for removal of...

1 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

While masks, hand sanitizers, triple-boosters and wild dancing in streets do help, the need of the hour, however, is sustained, planned avoidance of other human beings. (Representational Image/AA)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to stay safe in the coming wave

Below is a list of people who need to be avoided not just during pandemic times but even if a meteor were to come...

1 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year celebrations begin in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | Peace or permacrisis': What's the 2023 mantra?

Permacrisis was the Collins Dictionary's word of the year, perhaps unsurprisingly, as we lived through great upheavals

1 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (C) sits in an aircraft departing from Kathmandu to France, on December 23, 2022. - French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, was freed on December 23 after spending almost 20 years in a Nepali prison. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Revisiting the Serpent' saga: My encounters with...

Sobhraj first got in touch with me in 1997. He rang my office at Channel Four TV, UK, where I was a commissioning editor

31 Dec 2022 12:21 AM IST

Rescue workers clearing rubble of a destroyed school after an attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, July 4, 2022. The Ukrainian militarys General Staff says that Russian forces are trying to press their offensive deeper into eastern Ukraine after capturing a key stronghold. AP/PTI

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Waiting for the dawn after world faced a...

A revolt against the Kremlin was predicted. Some warned of a military mutiny. President Vladimir Putin was reported to...

31 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST