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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation on the occasion of the 76th Independence Day at the Red Fort, in New Delhi, Monday, Aug 15, 2022. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Can India be a developed nation before it gets...

India, acting internationally as a pragmatic, non-preachy, middle power would be new for its citizens

18 Aug 2022 12:30 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. (PTI)

Dilip Cherian | To fight image problem, UP babus told to scan local...

What's behind this sudden urge of the Yogi Sarkar to scrutinise news emerging from the grassroots?

18 Aug 2022 12:06 AM IST

European Union flags are seen in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. (AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Ukraine is a better fit for EU than Britain...

Unlike Britain, Ukraine, which feels that it has paid in blood for membership, sees Europe as its political and cultural...

17 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST

One wonders what, given the recent past and the record since 1947, the next quarter century holds in store for India. (DC Image)

Aakar Patel | Amrit Mahotsav: Do we celebrate past, or what we'll...

Have we done enough economically to pass on something meaningful to the next generation?

16 Aug 2022 12:18 AM IST

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Covid-19 preventive vaccine to a student in the age group of 12 to 14 years, at a vaccination centre, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Chandrakant Lahariya | At 75, time to focus on a healthier India@100

While health has got a lot of attention in the pandemic period there is a need for health to continue to be a sustained...

16 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

Rishi Sunak & Liz Truss

Kishwar Desai | Only William-Kate smelling like roses; The Rishi and...

Rishi Sunak finds himself in an unfamiliar rank of being second, while Liz Truss is slowly moving up

15 Aug 2022 12:14 AM IST

The national flag is seen in the foreground as Rapid Action force (RAF) and Karnataka police personnel patrol on the disputed Idgah Maidan, on the eve of 76th Independence Day, at Chamrajpet area in Bengaluru, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India@75 mood: Uneasy sense of...

Both Atal Behari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh functioned as Prime Ministers and the country moved, and no one felt the...

14 Aug 2022 11:50 PM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Carpenter-backed roles and plumber's...

Honestly, though, film folk, you'll have to come up with new things to say in your coming interviews

14 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

On the midnight of 15 August 1947, India came into existence. (Photo: AFP/AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Why freedom came early: In August 1947, not June 1948

Instead of August 15, 1947, our Independence Day could well have been June 30, 1948

14 Aug 2022 12:12 AM IST

File photo of the Partition of 1947. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | 75 years later, it's time to bury Partition legacy

Would un-partitioned India have survived the centrifugal tendencies that a constitutionally weak Centre would have...

14 Aug 2022 12:10 AM IST

A military fighter jet flies above the Taiwan Strait as seen from the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island of Taiwan. (Photo: AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Beijing bully runs berserk: Taiwan today,...

What began in 1950 subsequently became a familiar pattern, leading to routine and repetitive acts

13 Aug 2022 12:14 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | When religions, cults dominate, truth a casualty &...

Religion has, throughout history, dominated the realms of politics and governance

13 Aug 2022 12:11 AM IST