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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Don't set bar too high for India's G-20...

The G-20's consultative and advisory nature argues against the drama of the ambitious and action-oriented programme...

8 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The hidden politics behind Supreme Court's...

On the face of it, the collegium system is indeed untenable in principle in a democratic system. But it is not a simple...

7 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same ideals

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same...

There is a belief that Sardar Patel would have sorted out Pakistan and we would never have had the Kashmir problem

6 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

If there are two large and rising powers in a region, rivalry is inevitable. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Are India and China going to be rivals for all time?

The roots of our problem with China go back a couple of hundred years when Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander met in...

6 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of Basij paramilitary force in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (Photo: AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Will the protests compel Iranian regime to begin...

The Iran unrest began in September when 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died in the morality police's custody

5 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

The departures arent by any means a flood, but when there are just 800-plus families left in the Valley, it matters when even a few go away. (Representational Image/Twitter)

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmir still plagued by undercurrents of crisis

Of the 808 Pandit families in the Valley, 16 left their homes in August

5 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Advanced Training Jets of Indian Navy release flares from the sky during the International City Parade and the Operations display by the Indian Navy at the biennial Multilateral Naval Exercise, MILAN 22 at Ramakrishna Beach in Visakhapatnam. (File photo: DC)

Navy will play a bigger role in protecting India's global interests

India's ascendancy has indeed been remarkable and the joint efforts of all elements of national power have contributed...

4 Dec 2022 12:02 AM IST

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Shashi Warrier | The Internet limbo: Where have all the orders gone?

He was using the browser and at some Railways site in no time at all, with a form that he filled in while asking me...

3 Dec 2022 11:55 PM IST

View of Parliament House ahead of its Monsoon session in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | What ails Parliament?

A salient instrument of holding government accountable is Question Hour

3 Dec 2022 11:48 PM IST

A latest searching statistic in Britain has discovered that fewer than 50 per cent of the population now claim to be Christian (Representational Image/AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of right-wing bigots, religion & (in)tolerance in...

What the statistic tells us is that the influence of religion over life in Britain, unlike, say, in Iran or Afghanistan,...

3 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

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