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Thomas Babbington Macaulays codification of Indian law came into effect and the Indian Police Act introduced uniform police service throughout India. (Twitter)

Mohan Guruswamy | Good governance means long-term government!

Clearly, we need to restructure the government and administration in each of India's 590 or so districts

23 Nov 2021 2:05 AM IST

Boris Johnson not only failed to be consistent protecting the wrongdoer one day and abandoning him the next, he then donned ashes and sackcloth and became an enthusiast for banning second jobs for MPs. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Post sleaze' row, MPs frosty with Boris; re-writing'...

Boris Johnson, who was unbeatable and riding high four weeks ago, cannot do anything right any more

22 Nov 2021 4:24 AM IST

The compulsory use of Aadhaar to access subsidised grain has meant that many of the poor cannot get their entitlement because connectivity is bad or their fingerprints have been eroded from labour and differ from the record. Representational Image. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Why farm law recall miffed some in middle class, media

What some of us think are strong, bold and firm decisions are cruel, harsh and unwanted for others

22 Nov 2021 3:26 AM IST

PM Modi has suddenly backtracked by announcing on Gurupurab, associated with Guru Nanak, his governments decision to annul the three farm laws. Representational Image. (PTI)

K.C. Singh | Diverse dilemmas: Power for Modi, economy for Xi

Controversy again arose about Chinese disturbance of the status quo at the 3,488 kilometre-long Line of Actual Control

22 Nov 2021 2:46 AM IST

Hoping for a world that understands whats going to happen to all of us and a world which doesnt look at bandaid quick fixes but at longer, happier solutions. (DC Image)

Ranjona Banerji | Old age, the final frontier; best to manage...

I forgive all of you who still believe that in some golden age we lived for hundreds of years

21 Nov 2021 3:31 AM IST

Both General Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), did not want a federal government to be headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rehman of the predominantly East Pakistan-based Awami League. (Twitter)

Manish Tewari | November 21st, 1971

On March 25, 1971, the West Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight massacring

21 Nov 2021 2:21 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Yorkshire racism row resolution shows Britain has...

I believe that British racism has changed in its manifestations and in the reaction it provokes from the establishment

20 Nov 2021 7:30 AM IST

Kangana Ranaut (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Loony left and loony right are good for a...

Between the loony left and the loony right, the loony right is more dangerous because they readily indulge in violence...

20 Nov 2021 7:18 AM IST

The Biden team says not to worry; theyve teamed up with the CPC to combat climate change. (AP)

Maura Moynihan | Planet nightmare: Biden surrenders to Xi as the Year...

Before the summit, Mr Biden had said the US would defend Taiwan

19 Nov 2021 2:29 AM IST

Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Task Force concluded that there is no current evidence that an anticipated the third wave will target children specifically. (PTI file photo)

Suman Bhattacharjea | Worrisome trends over kids' education, future

Data from the recently released ASER 2021 report suggests that we have an uphill battle ahead

19 Nov 2021 1:29 AM IST

Culinary politics and battles over what one can eat, what one cant and where are likely to continue in the coming months as Assembly elections in various states draw closer. Representational Image. (DC File Image)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Veg or non-veg? In India's food wars, free...

The town planning committee of the AMC has just decided to make the city's public spaces free of street carts selling...

18 Nov 2021 2:09 AM IST

The site of Saturdays ambush is among the three listed drugs trafficking, more precisely heroin smuggling, routes through which the contraband articles are brought from Myanmar into Manipur for onward supply to the rest of India and outside. (AP)

Wasbir Hussain | Myanmar the key factor in Manipur's hot' insurgency

The key question that arises is why the security forces in Manipur have been taking such big hits

17 Nov 2021 2:36 AM IST