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Anita Anand | Overturning Roe: It's overzealous morality at play vs...

Abortion has long been a contentious issue in the US, sharply dividing Americans along partisan, ideological and...

10 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

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Shashi Warrier | The New Press Utopia!

That question was a mistake, because even though he can't talk while he's drinking, he can certainly think and drink,...

10 July 2022 12:59 AM IST

Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde plays chess at a hotel where he is staying with supporting MLAs, in Guwahati. (PTI)

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Pavan K. Varma | All equal before lucre lure is theory of resort...

I sometimes think the time has come to amend the Constitution and add a clause that recognises and legitimises resort...

10 July 2022 12:45 AM IST

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Anita Katyal | Cabinet rejig may follow V-P polls; fiery Mahua paints...

Trinamul Congress insiders maintained Ms Moitra's big mistake is that she sees herself as another Mamata Banerjee

10 July 2022 12:32 AM IST

Front pages of British national newspapers, each leading with a front page story of the resignation of Boris Johnson as leader of Britains Conservative Party, are arranged for a photograph in Downing Street, the official residence of Britains Prime Minister, in central London on July 8, 2022. (AP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Hedgie, Javid were boulders that broke the camel's...

BoJo's premiership has been riddled with scandal and what one can only call slack leadership

8 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde arrives in New Delhi. (PTI)

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Shobhaa De | Who has created the real Gondhal' in Maharashtra?

Eknath Shinde's rise from an autorickshaw driver to the chief minister of Maharashtra reads like a movie script

8 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

$Auto-rickshaw drivers stage a demonstration in support of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde over Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackerays \auto-rickshaw\ remark, in Thane district, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (PTI)$ Opinion

Anand K. Sahay | Will BJP gobble up Sena? Keep eye on Maha tussle

The new CM could hardly have been more unembarrassed and forthright, or less boastful of placing deceit in the service...

8 July 2022 12:19 AM IST

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Dilip Cherian | UP plans to hire retired officers to probe serving IAS...

A panel headed by the state CS Durga Shankar, including other senior IAS officers, will recommend names of candidates...

7 July 2022 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the inauguration ceremony of Digital India Week 2022, in Gandhinagar, Monday, July 4, 2022. (PTI Photo)

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Shikha Mukerjee | Modi holds the middle as BJP moves further Right

The inclusivity and development mantra invoked by Mr Modi was clearly aimed at appeasing the apprehensive among the...

6 July 2022 11:33 PM IST

President Joe Biden, center, meets with South Koreas President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Japans Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, during the NATO summit in Madrid, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Skand Tayal | A rejuvenated Nato now casts its gaze towards the...

China is against Seoul and Tokyo joining Nato's plans to strengthen its foothold in the Indo-Pacific region

6 July 2022 7:33 AM IST

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Mohan Guruswamy | Rewriting history, with an open mind or empty mind?

In recent years, the Sangh Parivar's historians have been seeking to revise history to suit some of their ideological...

6 July 2022 7:21 AM IST

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair (in white cap) is escorted by policemen at the Patiala House Court in a case related to an allegedly objectionable tweet he had posted in 2018, in New Delhi on July 2, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

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Aakar Patel | State's targeting of Zubair, others will make India's...

It is the Union govt's agencies under home minister Amit Shah that have been misusing their vast powers to destroy the...

4 July 2022 11:51 PM IST