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Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year celebrations begin in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | Peace or permacrisis': What's the 2023 mantra?

Permacrisis was the Collins Dictionary's word of the year, perhaps unsurprisingly, as we lived through great upheavals

1 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (C) sits in an aircraft departing from Kathmandu to France, on December 23, 2022. - French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, was freed on December 23 after spending almost 20 years in a Nepali prison. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Revisiting the Serpent' saga: My encounters with...

Sobhraj first got in touch with me in 1997. He rang my office at Channel Four TV, UK, where I was a commissioning editor

31 Dec 2022 12:21 AM IST

Rescue workers clearing rubble of a destroyed school after an attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, July 4, 2022. The Ukrainian militarys General Staff says that Russian forces are trying to press their offensive deeper into eastern Ukraine after capturing a key stronghold. AP/PTI

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Waiting for the dawn after world faced a...

A revolt against the Kremlin was predicted. Some warned of a military mutiny. President Vladimir Putin was reported to...

31 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Over 50 protesters held white papers in support of the Chinese people under harsh zero-COVID policies that prevent them from having normal lives in China. (Photo: AP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Where does India figure in a very uncertain...

India is better prepared even if the coronavirus knocks again as a new variant.

30 Dec 2022 1:19 AM IST

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

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | How the fatal tug of social media got bigger,...

Social media fills the spatial, societal and relationship gaps which separate individuals from their dreams.

29 Dec 2022 2:18 AM IST

The Indian Railways is one of the biggest landlords after the central government. (Photo: Twitter@RailMinIndia)

Dilip Cherian | With AI & data analytics, will govt files now move...

The new chairman and CEO will get a new team, with the recent empanelment of six officers for holding Level 17 posts...

29 Dec 2022 2:15 AM IST

People protest against executions and detentions in Iran, in front of the Iranian Permanent Mission to the UN in New York City on December 17, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | After 2022's big challenges, looking at 2023 with hope

The year gone by brought war in Ukraine, saw Covid-19 epidemic abate and now turn vengefully on its source, the People's...

28 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

The Bharat Jodo Yatra is not a journey without maps . It has crept up on the existing grammar of politics. (Representational Image/PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | Early signals of a churning, in India's politics and...

In the regions where state elections will be fought, the real contest will be between the BJP and the Congress

28 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

A.S. Dulat (Photo: G.N. Jha)

Aakar Patel | Dulat memoirs an eye-opener on how India's spooks think

What this ex-head of RAW, who was also one of the IB's senior-most officers has written is astonishing

27 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Far from being the competitors of the United States, China and India are still its under-economies, serving it with cheap labour working on repetitive jobs and repetitive number crunching. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | What is the prescription for America's many ills?

The problem with the US is, it lives far beyond its means and its profligacy has left it as a debtor, unable to pay its...

27 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

In India too, an intense fight is on between the Hindu right, partially represented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Hindu liberals. (Representational image: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India's culture wars: A clash of ignorant...

There is also the basic question whether the Hindu liberals are really liberal, and whether the Hindu reactionaries are...

26 Dec 2022 2:30 PM IST

Taituhas ancestors were among the 40 Mori leaders who signed the Treaty of Waitangi with representatives of Prince Charless great-great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria, at the site in 1840. (Photo: Instagram)

Kishwar Desai | After a Christmas of misery, looking to New Year with...

A King has not been on the throne in 70 years and a Charles in four centuries. So we look forward to the coronation!

26 Dec 2022 12:58 AM IST