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Enforcement Directorate. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | Venal officers target citizens, keeping India as partly...

On civil liberties India has only scored 33 out of 60, while the United States has scored 51

12 April 2022 1:31 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. (ANI)

K C Singh | Army, Sharifs start anew as Imran's govt implodes

The Pakistan Army was always closer to Shehbaz Sharif than his older brother Nawaz

12 April 2022 12:50 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Nehru, Ambedkar and the BJP: Revisiting of...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has personally led this new-found public embrace and appropriation of Dr Ambedkar's legacy

11 April 2022 12:28 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | XR, traffic jams back on streets; BoJo in Kiev is butt...

Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists are back on the streets, reminding us that the world is not a safe haven in any way

11 April 2022 12:11 AM IST

Banni Bai. (By Arrangement)

Shailaja Khanna | Timeless ebullience and other musical secrets

This is the fascinating story of the origins of dance; a story that was preserved in stone and text over the centuries

10 April 2022 1:44 AM IST

The war in Ukraine now entering into its seventh week, the Russian leadership would do well to reflect upon the consequences of the Frankenstein they have unleashed. (Representational Image/ AP)

Manish Tewari | India's duty: Ask Russia to course-correct in Ukraine

The Russians would do well by reflecting upon some aspects of their own history

10 April 2022 1:09 AM IST

Channel 4 headquarters, London (Wikipedia)

Farrukh Dhondy | Bid to privatise' UK's Channel 4 puts free speech in...

Channel 4 avidly and rapidly established itself as the voice of critical, even impertinent, free speech

9 April 2022 7:28 AM IST

Supporter of ruling party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) hold the national flag during a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Pakistan's Supreme Court an unlikely...

Imran's recommendation to President Alvi to dissolve the National Assembly also becomes invalid because he is facing a...

9 April 2022 7:17 AM IST

Patralekha Chatterjee | How to destroy a nation: Intolerance,...

The normalisation of hate often goes hand-in-hand with normalisation of the 'otherisation' of the minorities

8 April 2022 12:48 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Amid shortage of officers, govt sets up panel to find...

The shortage, perhaps, explains why there are not enough IAS officers on Central deputation or even in the states

8 April 2022 12:21 AM IST

A Tepco official wearing radioactive protective gear stands in front of Advanced Liquid Processing Systems during a media tour at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in November 2014. Photo:AP

Mohan Guruswamy | Nuclear bombast: Is there a method in the madness?

Since nuclear weapons cannot really be used, their only utility lies in the mere threat of their use

7 April 2022 12:39 AM IST

Rashtrapati Bhavan plays a very important role after the Lok Sabha polls in the formation of the new government. (Representational Image/PTI)

Sunil Gatade | Modi's formula on the choice of a loyalist as the next...

No Prime Minister likes to take chances on a crucial appointment as the President when each Lok Sabha election is a...

5 April 2022 11:30 PM IST