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Dilip Cherian | Pro-IAS tilt in promotions leaves all other services...

The move has created a gap of six years between parallel ranks in the IAS and IPS, and IPS officers are upset at this...

26 May 2022 3:09 AM IST

Quad leaders -- the Prime Ministers of India, Japan and Australia and the US President -- met in Tokyo on Tuesday. (PTI)

K.C. Singh | Tokyo's message: Quad is here to stay, maybe grow

The Tokyo summit was the second in-person meeting of the four leaders

26 May 2022 12:30 AM IST

BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar. (DC)

N. V. Subhash | Bandi Sanjay achieved a lot in 3 years

Bandi Sanjay was able to bring Central funds to the extent of Rs 5,458 crore for various developmental projects in his...

25 May 2022 2:56 AM IST

Union minister of state for food and public distribution system, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, stated in Lok Sabha that in terms of rice, Punjab had contributed 135.89 LMTs while Telangana contributed 94.57 LMTs. (Representational image: PTI)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Wheat, famine, starvation: Some lessons for...

Like the 1770 famine which heralded the West's arrival on Indian soil, the British departure from the East too saw the...

25 May 2022 12:55 AM IST

The Gyanvapi Mosque after its survey by a commission, in Varanasi, Tuesday, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Like Ayodhya, Gyanvapi issue will live with us for...

Parliament has the right to repeal the Places of Worship Act, and indeed some people in the BJP have been asking for...

24 May 2022 7:14 AM IST

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and President Joe Biden take their masks off as they arrive with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity launch event at the Izumi Garden Gallery, Monday, May 23, 2022, in Tokyo. (AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | After Tokyo summit: How will the Quad help...

The White House describes the Quad as only 'a premier regional grouping on issues that matter to the Indo-Pacific'

24 May 2022 7:05 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Sinn Fein win puts spotlight on treaty; balcony...

This will be a test for the Treaty of Northern Ireland as Sinn Fein would like to reunite both parts which the Unionists...

23 May 2022 12:40 AM IST

The dangerous area of fake encounters arises from that extra-legal and dark territory called police custody, located usually inside police stations. (Representational Image/ DC)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | To deter fake encounters, change way...

Disha's rape and murder occurred on November 27 and there was huge public outrage over the heinous crime

23 May 2022 12:36 AM IST

The world of the privileged that includes voluntary diet control and excessive exercise. (Representational Image/ Pexels)

Ranjona Banerji | The diet where dreams go to die...

And there's that whole dieting industry ready to 'help' you get your wallet so much thinner

22 May 2022 12:27 AM IST

Russian tanks roll along a street in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Manish Tewari | Putin started Ukraine war, West might just end it

This united Europe like never before much the same way as they had come together to resist Hitler's blitzkrieg 1939...

22 May 2022 12:25 AM IST

A post-mortem examination of the victim confirmed rape and then murder by throttling. (AA file photo)

Anita Anand | Rape within marriage: The grey area over consent

Of the 4,169 women who experienced sexual violence, 82 per cent said the perpetrator was their husband

22 May 2022 12:17 AM IST

Secularism is not mere tolerance of other faiths, but a belief in modern values and reason. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Mohan Guruswamy | How Hindus and Muslims misunderstood secularism

Sensitivity to each other's feelings and aspirations has to be a mutual affair

21 May 2022 12:52 AM IST