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$Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 9 blamed Ukrainian secret services for the huge blast a day earlier that ripped through Russias Crimea bridge, which he described as a \terrorist act\. (Photo: AFP)$ Opinion

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Can Russians be tried for war crimes' in...

The US and EU can take a call for the re-creation of wealth rather than push weapons into a war zone

17 March 2023 12:04 AM IST

Societies evolve. Social norms evolve. Currently, there are 32 countries where same-sex marriage is legal. (Representational Image)

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Patralekha Chatterjee | Why will same-sex unions pose threat to our...

Why is govt so strongly opposed to giving legal recognition to same-sex marriages when same-sex relationships are no...

16 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

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Dilip Cherian | Ministers, babus concentrate on development at Chinese...

1,400 border villages have been identified and ministers will visit to understand issues faced by people there

16 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the inaugural ceremony of Aero India 2023, in Bengaluru, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Not era of war': India needs to push Ukraine...

The International Crisis Group has its eye on 10 global wars that might explode during 2023

15 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

In March 2020, the year before Covid-19, merchandise exports were $314 billion. Meaning there was no growth in merchandise exports in six years. (Representational Image)

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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Export, monetise, privatise: The eco mantra India...

Despite the hoopla of centralised governance, the economy is mutating away from the government and towards the private...

14 March 2023 12:38 AM IST

A worker screen prints flags of various political parties in Coimbatore. (Representational Image/PTI)

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Aakar Patel | India's parties and politics of exclusion: How it hurts...

India is experimenting after 2014 with the same things that Pakistan tried and failed with in its opening decades

14 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at the Raisina Dialogue 2023 in New Delhi, Friday, March 3, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

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Saeed Naqvi | Ukraine war: How perspectives differ in the West & rest...

Ukrainian ability to defend itself could also be undermined by Russia's continued attacks on Ukraine's civilian...

13 March 2023 12:32 AM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening session of the 20th Chinese Communist Partys Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. - The effect was achieved through varying the lens focal length. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)

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KC Singh | Iran-Saudi-China accord a wake-up call for India?

China gains considerably from the deal by projecting its growing role as an economic and political power

13 March 2023 12:18 AM IST

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Shashi Warrier | Games universities play with students

Students have attend 80 percent of the classes to be eligible to write the end-semester exams

12 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

File photo of the spot after militants attacked a CRPF convoy in Goripora area of Awantipora town in Pulwama district of J&K. At least 49 CRPF jawans were killed in the attack. (Photo: PTI)

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Manish Tewari | Were India, Pak close to a nuke war after Pulwama?

It is fairly clear that there are no off-ramps when the Indo-Pakistan rivalry goes on an accelerated escalatory spiral

12 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

One of the central challenges in modern neuroscience is recording the exchange of information between different regions of the brain. (Photo: ANI)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Mixing up myths & modern science will only lead to...

Government-enforced confounding of science and myth has caused seven professors of New Zealand's universities to write...

11 March 2023 12:56 AM IST

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Shobhaa De | The first Samba-Tango in South America

Indians have far more in common with Latin America than the United States -- the neo-colonisers of the twenty-first...

11 March 2023 12:16 AM IST