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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Amid Bid for Dhaka Reset, Glitches Along the Padma

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Amid Bid for Dhaka Reset, Glitches Along the...

Preacher row, political shifts test ties under Tarique Rahman

19 March 2026 11:29 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | Can Khattar’s Cost-Cutting Policy Stop Earthquakes?

Dilip Cherian | Can Khattar’s Cost-Cutting Policy Stop Earthquakes?

Quake norms rollback, IAS reinstatements, CM rebuke spark accountability debate

19 March 2026 11:00 PM IST

Chandrakant Lahariya | ‘No-Fault’ Policy on Compensation To Boost India’s Immunisations

Chandrakant Lahariya | ‘No-Fault’ Policy on Compensation To Boost...

No-fault policy can boost trust while addressing rare adverse events

18 March 2026 8:56 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Our ‘Goldilocks’ Moment: How To Insulate From War

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Our ‘Goldilocks’ Moment: How To Insulate From War

Import dependence, disrupted supply chains test resilience amid global turmoil

18 March 2026 8:38 PM IST

Claude Arpi | The Next Battlefield In Tibet: Over Buddhism!

Claude Arpi | The Next Battlefield In Tibet: Over Buddhism!

Paradoxically, Beijing wants to teach Buddhism to Tibet. In September 2025, a meeting was convened in Lhasa by Wang...

18 March 2026 12:45 AM IST

Pradeep C. Nair | How Bangladesh, Nepal & Myanmar Elections Impact India’s Northeast

Pradeep C. Nair | How Bangladesh, Nepal & Myanmar Elections Impact...

The current war in the Persian Gulf has critically affected Bangladesh, which imports 95 per cent of its oil needs....

18 March 2026 12:31 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Are There Principles In Our Foreign Policy? Or Should India Just Go By Opportunism?

Aakar Patel | Are There Principles In Our Foreign Policy? Or Should...

In a speech he made where he first laid out this doctrine of opportunism and inconsistency, Mr Jaishankar said it was...

17 March 2026 12:23 AM IST

The EC was responding to a story carried out by this paper in which former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan had raised serious concerns with regard to sanctity of EVMs due to use of VVPAT machines, saying VVPATs have made EVMs amenable to hacking.

Shikha Mukerjee | An Unprecedented Run-up To A Predictable Election?

Armed with the mantra of “Detect” and “Delete”, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of rolls carried out over almost...

17 March 2026 12:09 AM IST

M.P. Nathanael | What Had Really Turned the Tide Against Maoists All Across India

M.P. Nathanael | What Had Really Turned the Tide Against Maoists All...

Maoists laid down arms before A. Revanth Reddy amid the intensified anti-Maoist drive

15 March 2026 11:50 PM IST

Sanjaya Baru | With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?

Sanjaya Baru | With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?

Escalation involving Israel and Iran could hurt India’s economy and energy security

15 March 2026 11:28 PM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | My Continuing Struggles With Literature Festivals

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | My Continuing Struggles With Literature...

Was it my interactions with my fellow panellists or my friendship with our 'handlers' that made all the difference?

15 March 2026 12:44 AM IST

Anita Katyal | Amritsar Is Lucky For BJPs Losers; Cong MPs Lobby For Kerala Tickets

Anita Katyal | Amritsar Is 'Lucky' For BJP's Losers; Cong MPs Lobby...

Arun Jaitley lost the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Amritsar to Congress leader Amarinder Singh by a margin of a lakh...

15 March 2026 12:32 AM IST