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Dilip Cherian | Why is govt not filling vacancy of 3rd EC member as...

An election commissioner post has been vacant for the past four months after the retirement of Sushil Chandra in May...

28 Sept 2022 12:02 AM IST

Though the GDP numbers grew with low base effect, there are also other significant reasons which suggest a recovery in the economy. (Twitter)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | The other side of life in the 5th largest...

India has 1.4 billion people against the UK's 68 million. Even a low per capita income adds up to an impressive total

28 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Is govt trying to finish off civil society & India's...

PM Modi continues a common theme where he has attacked what is called civil society , which he sees as an enemy

27 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat (PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Does RSS chief's Muslim dialogue have a...

The RSS will become a centenarian in 2025 and no one can ignore the philosophy of cultural nationalism as being integral...

27 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda and Punjab Lok Congress President Captain Amarinder Singh during a meeting ahead of Punjab polls 2022, in New Delhi, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Sunil Gatade | As BJP footprint grows, will it get bogged down with...

Most of the recent inductions show that the BJP, which boasts of being the world's largest party, simply loves deadwood

26 Sept 2022 9:42 AM IST

Ukrainian serviceman walks past a blown Russian APC near Kutuzivka, north of Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP/Mstyslav Chernov)

Syed Ata Hasnain | The Ukraine war and the prospects in the making

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which was due to meet in early September 2022, didn't appear to offer any hope...

26 Sept 2022 9:37 AM IST

File photo of Russian army soldiers marching during an action in support for the soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | What India can do to end the Ukraine war

The world must, therefore, urgently push Russia to negotiate and accept the fact that Ukraine is, after all, a sovereign...

25 Sept 2022 12:15 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Is your apartment as sweet as its name?

We build large monstrosities, testaments to human greed and acquisitiveness, all symbols of human yearning and name them...

25 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | When I met the Queen & Philip in Delhi in 1983

There was some perfunctory conversation with me about my being from the North but working as a journalist in the South

25 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | The outbreak of communal riots in UK's Leicester...

The riots, which police are out in full force to suppress, have been happening, in varying intensity, from Aug 28 till...

24 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor and others during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kerala. (PTI Photo)

Anand K. Sahay | Rahul's yatra shifts optics: The game has come alive

A challenger is now before us. Whether he plays for PM, or desires to be a facilitator, will likely turn on the actual...

24 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Patralekha Chatterjee | India's pride, prejudice and its global...

The India of the future will depend on which metrics and indicators we choose to play up, and which ones we try to gloss...

23 Sept 2022 1:55 AM IST