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Navys MiG-29K maritime fighter jets are being deployed at airbases in the northern sector to beef up the Air Forces strength. (PTI Photo)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Making Indian fighter jets: What is all the...

The most glaring case of recurring time and cost overruns, technical faults, mishaps are still occurring in the United...

30 March 2023 12:10 AM IST

US President Joe Biden (R) and Chinas President Xi Jinping (L) shake hands as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 14, 2022.

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will US & China engage or confront each other?

People are clutching at the prospect of a rapprochement after last November's Bali G-20 meeting between Joe Biden and Xi...

29 March 2023 12:04 AM IST

The world has been warning us for some years now to correct course and move back to the path of democracy and pluralism. (DC Image)

Aakar Patel | Civil liberties & democracy: Why is India's rank so low?

We, in the thick of it, may not have noticed the water boiling and the temperature rising

28 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | It's not just about Rahul: The stakes are far...

So far, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress have called a spade a spade, and this trait must be retained

28 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

US President Joe Biden (R) and Chinas President Xi Jinping (L) shake hands as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 14, 2022.

Saeed Naqvi | As Beijing tries to broker peace deals, US firms up its...

The US, as yesterday's hegemon, has woefully diminished its persuasiveness

27 March 2023 12:10 AM IST

Indias opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, speaks during a meeting as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu on Monday, Jan.23, 2023. (Photo:AP)

Anand K. Sahay | Rahul's expulsion from LS: Is India at a turning...

The processes that have been adopted can be checkmated only through stout resistance by society and a show of...

27 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrives to address a press conference at AICC headquarters, in New Delhi, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Complications in defamation law exposed

The question that Judge Varma had to decide was whether Rahul implied that all people with the surname of Modi were...

26 March 2023 12:10 AM IST

According to Mr Liyuo, India and China have such a long history of sharing belief and knowledge between them. So a new era will see us coming closer. China and India should play a major role to augment global governance and Asian sentiments. Representational Image/AFP

Manish Tewari | Can India ever outdo China diplomatically?

Will we ever see our diplomacy undertaking manoeuvres of the kind China has pulled off here?

26 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Synonyms that so often are antonyms...

So is a painting by C©zanne, an Ennio Morricone composition or the unfettered flatulence of someone close by who's eaten...

25 March 2023 9:19 PM IST

Northwest and central India also recorded the highest average maximum temperatures in April since 1900. (Representional Image)

Shobhaa De | The heat is on A banger' of a summer is coming up

Mad Hatter who's in charge of the weather, has really fried our brains this week with heavy downpours in March and the...

25 March 2023 12:19 AM IST

A woman runs across London Bridge, backdropped by Tower Bridge, as she exercises in central London. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of free speech and the Left, of Asians in UK & cancel...

All The Spectator's writers, boobies and cry-babies, protest against the cancel culture which denies the likes of...

25 March 2023 12:14 AM IST

As India has so far highlighted through its G-20 presidency, every challenge presents an opportunity. (Photo: Twitter/@ANI)

Pradeep S. Mehta | Global summits to mass movements: Creating G-20...

The biggest opportunity in front of India and Global South today is to make its G-20 presidency inclusive by creating...

24 March 2023 12:05 AM IST