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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | The real reason for BJP's huge UP triumph: Not...

Election victories sanctify the actions of a political party; they do not validate them

14 March 2022 11:33 PM IST

Students wearing face masks attend a class at a school that was reopened after closure for months owing to coronavirus pandemic, in Amritsar, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Schools are being opened as per guidelines issued in Unlock. 5. (PTI)

Chandrakant Lahariya | A new worry: How we need to live with Covid' in...

The daily new Covid-19 cases in the country have come down to around 4,000 to 5,000, the lowest in 22 months since May...

14 March 2022 3:14 AM IST

Queen Elizabeth II (Photo: AP)

Kishwar Desai | Her Majesty still not well enough; Ukraine, oil bills...

She is 95 and has just completed 70 years on the throne which is a record for Great Britain

14 March 2022 2:01 AM IST

The rickshawwallah pedals us to the arcade where Maa finds her shop, meets her lady friend and conducts her business. (Representational Image/ Pexels.com.)

Sucheta Dasgupta | Why can't we be friends?

Why is women's safety' a bugbear? Is slut-shaming and middle-class paranoia not its effect but its cause?

13 March 2022 2:46 AM IST

The post World War-II rivalry between the United States and the erstwhile USSR inaugurated a Cold War or rather an icy peace in Europe that became the principal battleground of this confrontation that soon enveloped the rest of the world as well. (representataional image/ AFP)

Manish Tewari | How the West obtusely midwifed a world order

The North Atlantic Treaty organisation (Nato) brought into existence in April 1949 with the United States as its...

13 March 2022 1:31 AM IST

The Jaipur Literature Festival-2022 ends on March 14, Monday. (Photo: facebook)

Sucheta Dasgupta | Festival of ideas

Big minds jousted spiritedly on JLF-2022's hybrid arena

12 March 2022 2:24 AM IST

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves during a road show in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | New dynamic as politics in India reshapes itself

In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has won, while the Congress has become a virtual presence, as has the BSP

12 March 2022 2:00 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | There's a price for supporting democracy: Are we...

Not buying Russian gas and oil may cause serious problems there. But then, supporting democracy, even nascent ones,...

12 March 2022 1:24 AM IST

The BJPs door-to-door campaign drew sharp criticism from the rivals. (ANI representational)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | After its UP triumph, BJP must deliver...

The Muslims in UP and the BJP must now come to terms with each other

11 March 2022 10:49 AM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)

Anand K. Sahay | Do poll results indicate a basic transformation of...

Once the Congress goes down, effectively speaking, it is hard to think of any regional party being able to stand up...

11 March 2022 3:37 AM IST

Stranded migrant labourers in Chennai, in southeastern India, prepare to board a special train to take them home after the government eased lockdown measures (AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Don't treat the pandemic like yesterday's...

We need to also remember that Omicron arrived last year just when the endgame enthusiasm was gathering momentum

10 March 2022 2:54 AM IST

The rule was changed apparently to widen the pool of DIG-level police officers for central deputation and try and fill the many vacancies in the central police organizations and the Central Armed Police Forces. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Dilip Cherian | Whistleblower Khemka gets promoted; new rules for DIGs

Centre has now dropped the empanelment rule for central deputation of DIG-level IPS officers

10 March 2022 1:06 AM IST