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New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2023-24 in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dreams left undisturbed in Budget amid...

The 2023-24 Union Budget of Ms Sitharaman can at best be described as a Budget of idle curiosities, lacking any sense of...

3 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Bihar IAS body's silence on release of murderer' MP...

Mr Anand was initially handed out a death sentence by a local court, but it was later commuted to life imprisonment by...

2 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman shows a folder-case containing papers of her Union Budget 2023-24 speech on her arrival at Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Sitharaman will be presenting her fifth Union Budget. (Photo: PTI)

Chandrajit Banerjee | Budget: Growth-oriented game-changer' roadmap

The Union Budget 2023 has adopted a well calibrated and judicious fiscal management policy encompassing all sectors

2 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

The CAA has to be selective since it targets a unique and complex South Asian dilemma. (Representational Image)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | CAA not the real problem, but NRC is open to...

The NRC is another matter. Not because its wording is offensive but because its provisions can be abused

1 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

Changing the name of the Mughal Gardens located in the Rashtrapati Bhavan to Amrit Udyan is yet another episode. (Photo: AP)

Sriram Karri | Some names change easy, others do not

The BJP has chosen two distinct sets of names to make a very different kind of statement.

31 Jan 2023 12:20 AM IST

RRR is a fictional take on the younger days of celebrated freedom fighters, Komaram Bheem and Alluri Seetharama Raju. (Photo: Twitter/@RRRMovie)

Mohan Guruswamy | RRR: It's just a vulgar distortion of history

The movie was made with utter disregard to the life and times of our two heroes.

31 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, Shehbaz Sharif. (AFP)

Anand Sahay | J&K: New vistas can open if govt ready to shift focus

Neighbourhood difficulties are a constraining factor and an impediment to India realising its true potential as an...

30 Jan 2023 12:18 AM IST

File photo of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holding a folder-case containing the Union Budget 2022-23. (Representational Image/PTI)Photo

Kamal Davar | More bangs for the buck: What FM must ensure for the...

Importantly, the demands for the country's security preparedness always remains a major financial challenge

29 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

The hour-long sessions are scintillating, I tell you, and I have learnt much on a variety of subjects. (Illustration By Krishna Shastri Devulapalli)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Why I just love literature festivals

Literature festivals, for the unversed, are where we writers go to mingle with wannabes, has-beens, never-will-bes,...

29 Jan 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)

Manish Tewari | Who should appoint judges?

A joint house judiciary committee must be constituted by bringing about an appropriate Constitutional amendment

28 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

People watch the screening of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, in Thiruvananthapuram. (PTI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Allegations in a democracy: It's best to debate, not...

In healthy democracies, allegations will be argued over. They shouldn't be subject to a total niqab being drawn over...

28 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Its time for us desis to borrow the Brit stiff upper lip. Our lips are like Mick Jaggers -- a bit too rubbery and loose. We react and over-react to any and every small thing. (Photo: Twitter)

Shobhaa De | BBC Badnaam Hua. Darrrrrling Tere Liye!

We in India, give far too much importance to firangs who write books or make documentaries on and about us

28 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST