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Is it that we no longer care about tyranny and due process and individual rights? Or has it now become fine just because its not the foreigners who are doing it? (Representational Image)

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Aakar Patel | Raj lessons for today's India: Why do we see fewer...

The question is -- why should one protest in a democracy? There are many reasons

8 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses Chintan Shivir of Home Ministers of states in Surajkund, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Friday. (Photo: PTI)

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Mohan Guruswamy | Reforming public sector doesn't mean selling it

Mr PM Modi dismantled all these councils and committees and everything is now concentrated with him

8 Nov 2022 12:00 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)

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Saeed Naqvi | Children of Macaulay go global with Sunak's rise

Had Macaulay manifested himself by some miracle in the Calcutta of the 1950s and 1960s, he would have considered himself...

6 Nov 2022 11:04 PM IST

$A man walks amid low visibility due to smog, at Kartavya Path in New Delhi, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. A layer of pungent haze lingered over Delhi on Saturday morning as the citys air quality neared the \severe\ zone. (PTI Photo)$ Opinion

Madhav Singhania | Greed led us to rising level of pollution in Delhi,...

The CAQM also has issued multiple guidelines, including the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), and a ban on diesel...

6 Nov 2022 10:56 PM IST

View of a man looking out of an Indian train. (Representational Image)

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Shashi Warrier | Capitalism and the future of train travel

No one remembers cassettes, I said. Youngsters these days don't even know about CDs!

6 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Today there are 5.03 billion Internet users around the world and 4.9 billion of these use social media. (Photo: AFP)

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Manish Tewari | Behind all social media ills: Not privacy, but...

Unchecked proliferation of anonymous accounts has weaponised Internet, turning it into a veritable orgy of hate violence...

6 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Rishi Sunak, front-runner to the British PM post (Photo: AP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Are days already numbered for Hedgie Sunak? Third...

Already the unions, railway workers and medical staff, including 80,000 nurses, have declared that they will go on...

5 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi takes stock of the situationa at the site of the bridge collapse over the Machchhu river easlier in the week.

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Shikha Mukerjee | Morbi shows anatomy of political immunity

The Gujarat election in December 2022 will be a test of Mr Modi's winnability rather than that of the chief minister

5 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

The peak point of growth and prosperity is quite far off, so the short and medium-term prospects of growth and prosperity are nothing but bright. (Representational Image)

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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Towards a more affluent India: Future not...

Economic growth is not an automated elevator. There will be periodic glitches and we need policy repairmen to keep it...

4 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

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Dilip Cherian | Another panel set up to sort Central secretariat...

The panel will examine the current and future career progression of the CSS officers and suggest remedial measures to...

3 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Rescue personnel conduct search operations after a bridge across the river Machchhu collapsed at Morbi in Gujarat on October 31 (Photo by Sam PANTHAKY / AFP)

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Patralekha Chatterjee | Safety, maintenance key in infra, other...

What are the lessons in the wake of one of the worst public safety tragedies in India?

3 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Musk storms tweeter nest: Twitter to retain its...

Musk's stance in favour of free speech seems as doomed as Custer's last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876

2 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST