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China reached the one billion milestone in 1980, while India got there in 1997. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | China's people crisis and lessons India must learn

China has hit an impenetrable economic wall. The People's Republic now has a people crisis it has now stopped growing...

7 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

Pakistans former President Gen. Pervez Musharrafs popularity dropped and the attack by the security forces on Lal Masjid conservative seminary in Islamabad in July 2007 further increased his unpopularity. (File Photo: AP)

From commando to Prez: The Musharraf era led to turmoil & ill-will in...

Musharraf was on the run from legal and political retaliation from within Pakistan

6 Feb 2023 12:44 AM IST

In February 2022 Nirmala Sitharaman had stepped forward to salvage the situation by giving up a key mantra of what economists refer to as neo-liberalism . (File Photo: PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | The State in the economy and state of the economy

Returning to the 7.0 to 8.0 per cent growth path is the only way in which the next decade can hope to be dubbed as ...

6 Feb 2023 12:36 AM IST

A winter night sky from the writers window. (Photo by arrangement)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Don't lose sight of starry, starry nights

After all, can anything be more arresting than the night sky?

5 Feb 2023 12:56 AM IST

Mughal Gardens is being renamed to Amrit Udyan. (PTI File Photo)

Pavan Varma | Amrit Udyan: A tokenism unmindful of our legacy

How much we have done beyond name changes to actually reclaim our cultural heritage?

5 Feb 2023 12:13 AM IST

In barely three years, Adani has gained control of seven airports and almost a quarter of Indias air traffic. (Bloomberg)

Anita Katyal | Why Opp. is soft pedalling Adani; Diggy comfy in Cong...

Many senior Congress leaders refrained from issuing any statement on the controversy.

5 Feb 2023 12:08 AM IST

India has built a reputation for being in some way spiritual . Its not just a local conviction and pride, its internationally touted and recognised. (Representational Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | The Indian mind & spirituality': Don't forget science

The connection is not black-and-white and perhaps just part of the prejudice of my own absolute materialistic...

4 Feb 2023 12:58 AM IST

Indias opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, speaks during a meeting as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu on Monday, Jan.23, 2023. (Photo:AP)

Sunil Gatade | After the Yatra: Will it lead to Rahul's...

The more a leader goes to the people, the more he connects better, and understands better

4 Feb 2023 12:45 AM IST

Given the pace of climate change and the havoc it is wreaking, no course correction will be possible unless green technologies already developed by the industrial nations are made available to all countries. (Photo: ANI)

Suman Sahai | India has task cut out to arrange waiver of IPR on...

No course correction will be possible unless green technologies already developed by industrial nations are made...

3 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2023-24 in the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dreams left undisturbed in Budget amid...

The 2023-24 Union Budget of Ms Sitharaman can at best be described as a Budget of idle curiosities, lacking any sense of...

3 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Bihar IAS body's silence on release of murderer' MP...

Mr Anand was initially handed out a death sentence by a local court, but it was later commuted to life imprisonment by...

2 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman shows a folder-case containing papers of her Union Budget 2023-24 speech on her arrival at Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Sitharaman will be presenting her fifth Union Budget. (Photo: PTI)

Chandrajit Banerjee | Budget: Growth-oriented game-changer' roadmap

The Union Budget 2023 has adopted a well calibrated and judicious fiscal management policy encompassing all sectors

2 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST