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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | How culture underpins the budgets of states in India

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | How culture underpins the budgets of states in...

The inequity of Bombay, controlled by Gujarati money with the local people working for them, became a flashpoint

5 April 2023 12:00 AM IST

A new generation of RSS and BJP leaders are not inclined to update the Hindutva ideology because their basic presumption of glorifying a dead national past is their basic principle. (Photo:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Targeting others': How will it benefit India or brighten...

The Hindutva State has introduced discriminatory and exclusionary laws and policies on citizenship, food, divorce,...

4 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National President J.P. Nadda and Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, S. Jaishankar and Piyush Goyal during the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, in New Delhi. (PTI/Vijay Verma)

Sunil Gatade | Has entire BJP become a Margdarshak Mandal'?

The party as well as the RSS have been caught in the feel good bubble so much so that they only see themselves as...

4 April 2023 12:13 AM IST

King Charles (DC File Photo)

Kishwar Desai | King's German trip apt; as Covid tally climbing,...

We are just a month and bit away from the coronation of King Charles the Third.

3 April 2023 12:35 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 57th All India Conference of Director Generals/Inspector Generals of Police, in New Delhi, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Sanjaya Baru | Political & electoral funding: Transparency in...

There is no reason to believe that BJP governments, including that of Mr Modi, have been free of the taint of...

3 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Anita Katyal | Last of G-23 no longer pariahs; will Rahul play martyr'...

Several theories are doing the rounds about the party's decision to play the waiting game

2 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

The coronavirus is a family of viruses that can cause a range of illnesses in humans including common cold and more severe forms like SARS and MERS, which are life threatening.

Shashi Warrier | Viruses & nukes: Will we wake up in time or stew?

A green humanoid figure about two feet high stepped on to the ladder and descended to the ground

2 April 2023 12:10 AM IST

Security personnel stand guard following crack down on Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh and his supporters, in Jalandhar, Sunday March 19, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Pavan Varma | Liberty key element in alchemy of democracy

History carries important lessons that we can forget only at our own peril

2 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Global shift? China is on a geopolitical overdrive

What is for India in all this renewed Chinese geopolitical vigour.

1 April 2023 12:11 AM IST

Rishi Sunak will take charge as Britains first Indian-origin Prime Minister after an audience with King Charles III on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)

Farrukh Dhondy | Does African link colour attitudes of Indians in...

s there a way of telling the mind's construction by the candidacy or the policy?

1 April 2023 12:08 AM IST

Gehlot said women will be able to come forward and play constructive role in nation-building only when they are not forced to cover their faces. (Phtoo: File)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Right to health in India: Raj law to be test...

Rajasthan is the first state in the country to introduce a law that makes access to healthcare a legal entitlement.

31 March 2023 12:24 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Ex-babus to probe corruption among serving IAS...

Centre is hoping this will restore public confidence and ensure that corruption and violation of service rules are...

30 March 2023 10:28 AM IST