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Dilip Cherian | UP plans to hire retired officers to probe serving IAS...

A panel headed by the state CS Durga Shankar, including other senior IAS officers, will recommend names of candidates...

7 July 2022 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the inauguration ceremony of Digital India Week 2022, in Gandhinagar, Monday, July 4, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Modi holds the middle as BJP moves further Right

The inclusivity and development mantra invoked by Mr Modi was clearly aimed at appeasing the apprehensive among the...

6 July 2022 11:33 PM IST

President Joe Biden, center, meets with South Koreas President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Japans Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, during the NATO summit in Madrid, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Skand Tayal | A rejuvenated Nato now casts its gaze towards the...

China is against Seoul and Tokyo joining Nato's plans to strengthen its foothold in the Indo-Pacific region

6 July 2022 7:33 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | Rewriting history, with an open mind or empty mind?

In recent years, the Sangh Parivar's historians have been seeking to revise history to suit some of their ideological...

6 July 2022 7:21 AM IST

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair (in white cap) is escorted by policemen at the Patiala House Court in a case related to an allegedly objectionable tweet he had posted in 2018, in New Delhi on July 2, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | State's targeting of Zubair, others will make India's...

It is the Union govt's agencies under home minister Amit Shah that have been misusing their vast powers to destroy the...

4 July 2022 11:51 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with USA President Joe Biden and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, at G-7 Summit, in Germany. (PTI Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Nato, Ukraine, Russia: Why India should go its...

India has no option but to join the West in ganging up on both China and Russia, and that this alone shapes Indian...

4 July 2022 11:37 PM IST

Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde along with rebel Shiv Sena MLAs flashes the victory sign as they arrive to attend a special session of Maharashtra Assembly, at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai, Sunday, July 3, 2022. After the House proceedings begin, Sunday election for the post of Speaker of the House will be held. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Many twists in Maha drama: Will Shinde be...

The ongoing political drama in Maharashtra, with its interesting twists and turns, may not have really ended with the...

3 July 2022 11:56 PM IST

Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema celebrates after scoring a goal during the UEFA Womens Euro 2017 football tournament final match between Netherlands and Denmark at Fc Twente Stadium in Enschede. (AFP FIle Image)

Kishwar Desai | Pubs, Wimbledon site of reunions; women's footie is...

Sports are great for bonding and especially cricket where India is also in the fray

3 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde plays chess at a hotel where he is staying with supporting MLAs, in Guwahati. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | Scrap defection law, find a new way to ensure probity

The fact remains that over the past 37 years the anti-defection law has failed to fulfil the foremost objective for...

2 July 2022 11:43 PM IST

What would I have done if my own parting had happened now? Instead of writing weekly letters in longhand or waiting for the monthly one-hour tapes of her life in cold, distant Boston, would we have video-called each other three times a day? (Photo: Pixabay)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The uninterrupted cigarette of love

Nothing defines love, or for that matter allows you to experience love in its elemental sense, than bittersweet...

2 July 2022 11:22 PM IST

A Ukrainian serviceman guards his position in Kharkiv outskirts, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)

Saeed Naqvi | Most US allies are getting tired of a prolonged war in...

That Russia was consistently 'provoked' has been clear as daylight since 1998 when the US Senate voted in favour of Nato...

2 July 2022 11:08 PM IST

NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu while filing her nomination papers for presidential election, in New Delhi, Friday, June 24, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Anand K. Sahay | Back Murmu for Prez: It's a big social shift for...

If someone from such a background is elevated to the presidency, will it be such a bad thing when we consider India's...

1 July 2022 11:50 PM IST