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Pakistans Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. (ANI File)

Anand K. Sahay | Can Shehbaz & Bajwa, with US help, bring about thaw?

The game is doubtless aimed at winning the country back from Mr Khan's populist wiles

14 April 2022 11:02 PM IST

Sikkim chief minister Prem Singh Golay. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | 'Non-performers' in Sikkim govt are going to be sent...

Last year, an extensive drive was conducted against officials reporting late for work in govt offices and the latecomers...

14 April 2022 12:47 AM IST

CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury addressing a press conference after the partys three-day central committee meeting in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | CPM has sunk into a hole: Where'll it go from here?

Re-elected for the third term as party general secretary, Sitaram Yechury is tasked to deliver a miracle

14 April 2022 12:24 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden (PTI file image)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can shared values' douse discord in India-US...

Mr Narendra Modi's actions must live up to his rhetoric before he can respond to Mr Biden's call to help suffering...

13 April 2022 12:38 AM IST

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