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The warship has been built at a cost of around Rs 23,000 crore and its construction propelled India into a select group of countries having capabilities to build state-of-the-art aircraft carriers. (Indian Navy photo)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Hike Indian Navy funding to befit a rising sea...

A strong, effective Navy can't be built in a day, nor does it forgive a lackadaisical approach to maintenance or...

3 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

File photo of Sardar Patel being welcomed by the Nizam of Hyderabad.

Dinesh C. Sharma | How the Nizam of Hyderabad secretly plotted war...

In the end, all preparations proved futile as the Hyderabad forces surrendered to the Indian Army in September 1948

2 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

The film The Kashmir Files is based on the exodus and killings of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley in the 1990s by Islamic terrorists. (Twitter)

Patralekha Chatterjee | In a democracy, we need all the stories, all...

Why should criticism of a cinematic approach to portraying a topic be conflated with criticism of the topic?

2 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Non-IAS cadre officers making inroads in PMO

Some observers note that increasingly the Modi Sarkar is keen to promote non-IAS services to positions that formerly...

1 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Today, the greatest challenges we face -- climate change, terrorism, and pandemics -- can be solved not by fighting each other, but only by acting together. (Photo By Arrangement)

Narendra Modi | Today, India begins its G-20 presidency

India's G-20 presidency will work to promote this universal sense of one-ness. Hence our theme One Earth, One Family,...

1 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

A worker uses an anti-smog gun to control dust at a construction side at the landmark India Gate monument in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP/Manish Swarup)

Sunil Gatade | Civic polls in Delhi almost like battle of a...

Delhi is known as a mini-India . A vote here therefore has much significance

30 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

File photo of Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi waving at supporters at a public meeting ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, in Kheda district. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Gujarat, Modi's home base, remains a...

Gujarat, is not a cakewalk for either the BJP or Mr Modi, and the PM is also keen to prove that he remains unbeaten on...

30 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

File photo of BJP workers welcoming PM Narendra Modi as he, along with BJP president Amit Shah, arrives at the party headquarters to celebrate the partys victory in the Lok Sabha elections in New Delhi (Photo: AP)

Aakar Patel | After decisive win in 2019, has govt run out of steam?

The listlessness shows in endless political campaigning conducted without much reference to performance, only to...

29 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

The suspense over Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwas extension or the appointment of a new chief was finally broken with the appointment of Lt. Gen. Asim Munir. (Photo: PTI)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Will Gen. Munir rock the boat, or keep Pak stable?

It can be expected that Gen. Munir will attempt to establish his own coterie of loyalists who may not be in line with...

29 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Visitors stop to take a photograph with a giant Christmas tree outside Battersea Power Station in south London on November 27, 2022. (Photo by Justin TALLIS / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Christmas lights across London as UK heads for winter...

It is all balle-balle for one community, purely because Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has taken over

28 Nov 2022 1:53 AM IST

Sanjaya Baru | Global South can make G-20 much less of a G-2

India must set out an agenda of interest to the developing countries

28 Nov 2022 1:47 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Bulldozer justice unjust under all circumstances

Pavan K. Varma | Bulldozer justice' unjust under all circumstances

Although it is clearly verifiable that bulldozers have especially targeted the minority community, Hindus too have not...

27 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST