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Prime Minister Modi chairing the COVID review meeting. (ANI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | 20 years after 9/11: India must adapt to new...

Even a 'Hinduist' India's aim should be to secure the goodwill of a stable Afghanistan that is not a base for terrorist...

13 Sept 2021 3:22 AM IST

Eighteen-year-old Emma Raducanu had migrated with her parents from Canada when she was just two years old and she is the first British woman to have reached a major singles final in 44 years. (AP/PTI)

Kishwar Desai | A multicultural star is born; will Priti turn back...

Refugees and migrants have been a huge challenge for this island country

13 Sept 2021 2:42 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | The pitfalls of raising mom's special child

So while I sympathised with the professor, I couldn't help thinking that maybe aggressive moms aren't a bad thing, after...

12 Sept 2021 3:13 AM IST

Supreme Court made clear to the Centre on Friday that it would not pass any order on the plea seeking closure of cases against two Italian marines. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | Social media lynch mobs subverting course of justice

Till the time the highest court has not spoken the above dictum remains the gold standard of both criminal and civil law

12 Sept 2021 2:59 AM IST

A national library employee shows a gold Nobel Prize medal in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobels, with new winners announced starting Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, often concentrate on unheralded, methodical, basic science. (AP File)

Farrukh Dhondy | Will vaccine philantrophy be deserving of a Nobel?

In 2019, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia

12 Sept 2021 2:50 AM IST

The Talibans policy of talk-and-fight had by the beginning of last summer positioned them to catapult themselves into power. Image of Taliban flags flutter at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

K.C. Singh | Taliban-Pak nexus poses new challenges for India

Lurking unseen has been Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which was planning and guiding the Taliban advance

9 Sept 2021 11:47 PM IST

Far from being settled, Afghanistan is perilously poised. Yasif Nazari, 6, leans on a flag pole as he wears an Afghanistan military uniform as he listens to speakers at a rally to support the Afghan government Representational Image. (AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Clarity likely on Afghan situation after Sept. 16-17...

False flag action by one agent provocateur will invite a hundred dark analyses

9 Sept 2021 11:47 PM IST

The biggest challenge for Mr Mohapatra is to resolve the issues with the new income tax portal that has been facing continued glitches more than two months after it was launched with much fanfare. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | Hit by glitches in tax portal, new CBDT chief hits the...

It's an embarrassment that the finance ministry would like to put behind it at the earliest

9 Sept 2021 3:05 AM IST

Health advisories say elderly people are more at risk to novel coronavirus infection and need special care (PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Loneliness is the hidden pandemic in Covid...

Because loneliness is not a disease, it is not a priority for the policy folks

9 Sept 2021 2:17 AM IST

PM Modi was speaking at the release of the eighth installment of financial benefits under the PM-Kisan scheme via video conferencing. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Centre vs states: Key to anti-BJP unity of Opp.

There is more to winning in UP, Uttarakhand or Goa than merely putting a BJP man in the CM's chair

8 Sept 2021 2:44 AM IST

On September 8, 1962, units of Chinas Peoples Liberation Army had surrounded a small Indian Army post at Tsenjang on the northern bank of the Namka Chu stream just below the disputed Thagla ridge at the India-Bhutan-Tibet trijunction. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Mohan Guruswamy | 1962 lesson: How march of folly led us to disaster

The Indian Army was under pressure, but Gen. Thapar was still not prepared to bow to sheer stupidity

7 Sept 2021 3:19 AM IST

Aga Khan Museum has produced a three-part documentary series called Searching for the Blues on the musicians with material shot and recorded by the two mens record firm, Amarrass. (Twitter)

Aakar Patel | Some good news from Raj Why can't we do more to boost...

Lakha Khan is only one of the many men and women from Rajasthan that the documentary series exposes us to

7 Sept 2021 2:05 AM IST