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Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)

K.C. Singh | After dragging its feet, fence-sitting on Ukraine, India...

The Narendra Modi government must, as the Americans say, put their money where their mouth is

3 March 2022 6:49 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP)

Ashwani Kumar | Putin's war strikes at world order, exposes UN's...

Moscow has placed its nuclear forces on alert, in an ominous signal of a possibly prolonged confrontation

3 March 2022 1:18 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Amid Europe crisis, let's look afresh at China...

It serves little purpose in the circumstances to brand China a rogue state

2 March 2022 2:08 AM IST

Earlier, responding to similar PILs questioning the legality of the guidelines fixed for selecting candidates to the posts of member secretary and chairperson of the board, the state high court, too, had ruled that the state government cannot decide to appoint only an officer from the IAS or IFoS to these posts. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Dilip Cherian | IAS officer's role in Telangana's pollution board...

Telangana HC is to hear a plea filed by a social worker seeking directions to the state government to remove IAS officer...

2 March 2022 1:25 AM IST

Indias Ambassador to the United Nations T. S. Tirumurti speaks during an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on Ukraine, at the U.N headquarters. (AP)

Aakar Patel | Vote to abstain at UN will hurt India as it fails to...

India's foreign policy under the current government has not been able to find its rhythm because it doesn't have a theme

1 March 2022 6:59 AM IST

Unlike some others, Indias Constitution doesnt recognise the institution of political parties. Its the same in other serious and major democracies. (Representational image: PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Anti-defection law and inner-party democracy

Political parties are extra or non-constitutional arrangements to organise people on the basis of shared ideas,...

1 March 2022 6:48 AM IST

For many who are familiar with scrabble, or have done crosswords, this was a strange fixation but the charm of it was that it is online and so many can play and compete with each other. (DC)

Kishwar Desai | War of Wordles has UK in grip; 20m flowers to float...

In a bid to make Wordle popular in their backyard they have made the word puzzle much more puzzling

28 Feb 2022 2:45 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Wars need wisdom: How far is Putin likely to go?

The mistake was made not in 2021-22 but way back in 1991, when the Soviet Union broke up

28 Feb 2022 1:37 AM IST

The Godhra incident, ahead of the 2002 Gujarat polls, led to a pogrom and polarised Gujarat as never before. (Representational Image/ Twitter)

Mohan Guruswamy | Who lit the fire on Sabarmati Exp at Godhra 20 years...

A nation which forgives and forgets such huge assaults on its person is only condemned to suffer more of them

27 Feb 2022 2:19 AM IST

People take part in a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP)

Manish Tewari | Gloves off as New Iron Curtain falls on world

In his rather rambling walk through the park of history Vladimir Putin tried to lay out his much flawed case for the...

27 Feb 2022 1:43 AM IST

Truly, the inspiration a musician gets seeing another listening intently makes for an inspired rendition. (Representational image/ Twitter)

Shailaja Khanna | My first brush with magical Marghazi

Realising that literally life stops for several hundred musicians of all types during these 30 days was awe inspiring

27 Feb 2022 1:14 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Uncle Tom games: Can Gojo take on Czar's brigade as...

I am engaged in writing a book with the mildly derivate title 'Uncle Tom's Cabinet'

26 Feb 2022 7:13 AM IST