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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and others pose for photographs during Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (PTI)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Strategic stock-taking will mark SCO FMs' Goa meet

The visit of Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is being treated with a hot and cold attitude by the...

4 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

The state ranks second in the number of scavenger deaths in the entire country, which is a serious matter for Gujarat. (Representational Image)

Dilip Cherian | Scavenger deaths in Gujarat may set off blame game

The CMO is aware of the issue's potential to snowball into a political crisis and is taking steps to swiftly defuse it

4 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

The Supreme Court has chosen to make public its reiterated recommendations with regard to certain judges whose appointments the government has been sitting on for over five years now. (Representational Image)

Anita Anand | Imagining a new form of marriage in India: It has to...

Over the last decade, acceptance of homosexuality has grown in India, especially since Supreme Court decriminalised...

3 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

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

Anand K. Sahay | Signs of churn in India, but is nation's mood...

Political perversions abound in a hot-air democracy; media silence is the butt of jokes shared on smartphones around the...

3 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao programme (Wikimedia)

Aakar Patel | Of sabka saath' & beti bachao': The myth and reality in...

'Beti bachao' is not a convincing phrase in the mouths of those who free convicted rapists for coldly-calculated...

2 May 2023 7:44 AM IST

There is no doubt that Punjab is a major foodgrain production centre, but the notion that it feeds India is quite exaggerated. (Representational image: PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | The downfall of Punjab, and lessons for the rest of...

Even though Punjabis account for less than 2.5 per cent of India's population, they are one of the most prosperous races...

2 May 2023 7:26 AM IST

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Kishwar Desai | Sinn Finn to grace coronation party! Boris still...

Even the Republican Catholic Sinn Fein Party is participating with their leader Michelle O'Neill in the Northern Ireland...

1 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

Crowd of BJP supporters during Union Home Minister Amit Shahs election campaign rally, in Bhojipura, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Sanjaya Baru | Return of class in India's caste-obsessed politics

Almost all political reporting in the run-up to an election is focused on caste

1 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge with BRS MP K. Keshava Rao, DMK MP TR Baalu, AAP MP Sanjay Singh, RJD MP Manoj Jha and fellow opposition MPs during a joint press conference following their Tiranga March, in New Delhi, Thursday, April 6, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan Varma | Opp. needs a pivot, but Congress a spent force

Nitish Kumar and Sharad Pawar are right when they say that no Opposition front is possible without the Congress

30 April 2023 12:15 AM IST

It would be better for Congress to set its own agenda and try and convince the people about it instead of giving ammunition to the BJP to accomplish its mission against the Opposition. (Photo: PTI/File)

Anita Katyal | Congress in Karnataka overconfident; why is Malik...

While its campaign is essentially being led by Mallikarjun Kharge, all senior leaders, want to be fielded for...

30 April 2023 12:10 AM IST

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Shashi Warrier | Time to get under way a World Confusion Day

Faith is as much a part of our universe as physics , I said. It's built into human nature, and thence into nature.

30 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

Under an air bubble pact between two countries, special international flights can be operated by their airlines between their territories. (AFP Photo)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Why are so many Indians going abroad to find...

India has the largest overseas diaspora -- over 32 million who are non-resident Indians or people with overseas...

29 April 2023 12:10 AM IST