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This file photo taken on October 14, 2018 shows soldiers from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force taking part in a military review at the Ground Self-Defence Forces Asaka training ground in Asaka, Saitama prefecture. - Japan announced on December 16, 2022 its biggest defence overhaul in decades, hiking spending, reshaping its military command and acquiring new missiles to tackle the threat from China. (Photo: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Japan's rearmament impact India's...

Japan's decision to strengthen its military will have definite implications for the Quad -- comprising the US, Japan,...

21 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Former Mumbai municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi. (Photo: ANI)

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Dilip Cherian | Sidelined after pandemic, former Mumbai babu will now...

Sources say that it seems that the retired babu's rehabilitation is well underway

21 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Other parties are divisive because of their propensity towards casteism but, and this is the thinking, the BJP is above caste. (Photo: PTI)

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Aakar Patel | The caste factor and the BJP-RSS' Hindutva politics in...

The fact is that Hindutva wants Indians to worship caste, but it doesn't want them to talk about it

20 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

It is now up to Rahul Gandhi to nurture inner-party democracy by deferring to Mr Kharge as the leader and letting him run the party. (Representational Image)

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Mohan Guruswamy | Dynastic politics in India: Long live our democracy!

Except for the CPI(M) and the BJP, every political party in India has a dynastic line of succession, or more aptly...

20 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (AFP)

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Saeed Naqvi | America's dream world order needs Russia, Europe to be...

Lord Ismay, Nato's first secretary-general, had succinctly outlined the alliance's purpose: to keep the Soviet Union out...

19 Dec 2022 9:13 AM IST

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

Indranil Banerjie | Russian oil sanctions and the Great Global Divide

The Western sanctions on Russia sparked by the Ukraine war signal a turning point in the global geopolitical order.

19 Dec 2022 9:06 AM IST

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Ranjona Banerji | A 60-yr-old's adventures and snarling aunties

Age is just a number but numbers pile up. In four-and-a-half billion years, the sun will become a red giant and solar...

18 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

View of Parliament House ahead of its Monsoon session in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

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Manish Tewari | Should Parliament codify basic structure doctrine?

The basic structure doctrine is a feature of modern and progressive democracy

18 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

A worker carrying LPG cylinders on a bicycle crosses a road, shrouded in a thick layer of smog, in New Delhi (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)

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Patralekha Chatterjee | Tackle toxic air now: It's ruining our lives,...

It is also glaringly obvious that apart from killing us slowly, toxic air is taking a huge toll on India's economy

17 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

In Britain, which has certainly been demographically transformed into a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-faith society in the last 50 years, it has become customary to ask first-generation immigrants where they come from without any malice intended. (Photo: Twitter)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Where are you from? UK row erupts on royal racism,...

Can we understand an 83-year-old privileged lady being unaware that her attitude and persistence amounted to abuse ?

17 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command, Lt Gen MM Naravane, review the security situation and operational preparedness in the border areas of Arunachal Pradesh, in Tawang. (PTI file photo)

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | 1962 to 2022: No lessons learnt on tackling...

One only hopes that 60 years from now, history won't repeat itself in 2082

16 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal with Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai and other leaders during celebrations after AAP crossed the majority mark in the MCD polls, at the party headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Amid BJP triumph, can AAP be a force in 2024?

The future direction of politics also depends on the performance of Cong govt in HP and coordination between the MCD and...

15 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST