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External affairs minister S. Jaishankar with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. (Photo: Twitter/@DrSJaishankar)

Sanjaya Baru | India's multi-alignment' and the Jaishankar Way

The US is emphasising its continued relevance to the Indo-Pacific and India is hedging against future US...

20 Sept 2021 7:28 AM IST

UP CM Yogi Adityanath. (PTI)

Pavan Varma | Abbajaan! The basest lingo taints our faith

People like Adityanath also seem to be motivated by the focused goal of setting one religious community against another

19 Sept 2021 3:28 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Manoj, and the art of bonding professionally

Manoj was one of those people, one of the many we met in a short but harrowing journey from India to England this week

19 Sept 2021 2:26 AM IST

Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel (PTI)

Anita Katyal | Win-win for Shah, new Gujarat CM; coming soon, a biopic...

Mr Patel is known to be a prot©g© of former chief minister Anandiben Patel, who has a tense relationship with Mr Shah

19 Sept 2021 1:23 AM IST

Shobhaa De | In India's neighbourhood: Kuch Kuch Ho Raha Hai

Biden has emerged as the chief villain of the tragedy that is Afghanistan. Biden is no Gabbar Singh (the guy Bollywood...

18 Sept 2021 3:22 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament in London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly defended his controversial plan to override sections of the Brexit deal that he negotiated with the European Union, arguing that the bloc has an extreme interpretation of the treaty that could jeopardize the future of the U.K. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Was it cruel? Why Gavin had to go in Boris' shuffle

Gavin Williamson then supported Boris Johnson for the leadership of the party and was rewarded by BoJo with the...

18 Sept 2021 2:20 AM IST

President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

K.C. Singh | Engage Iran & Russia to keep Pak in check in Afghanistan

The US also did not expect the rapid collapse of the Afghan National Army (ANA), which has left Afghanistan in chaos

17 Sept 2021 2:13 AM IST

Ashwani Kumar | It's now time to reclaim the moral centre of the...

The erosion of a nurtured culture of tolerant coexistence questions our democratic resilience

17 Sept 2021 2:11 AM IST

Qu Dongyu | Our agri-food systems are a mess, must be transformed

Transforming our global agri-food systems rests ultimately with actions at the country and local levels

16 Sept 2021 2:44 AM IST

Hardik Patel (PTI pic)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hindutva a weak riposte as BJP faces...

As the 2022 election looms large, the high command seems to have realised that it cannot go into the election with Mr...

16 Sept 2021 2:12 AM IST

Parliamentarians in the Rajya Sabha, on the first day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Monday, July 19, 2021. (RSTV/PTI Photo)

Dilip Cherian | A big win for Rajya Sabha cadre officers

Parasaram P.K. Ramacharyulu is the first officer of the RS cadre to be appointed as the Secretary-General of the upper...

15 Sept 2021 3:16 AM IST

Taliban fighters wave from the back of a pickup truck, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Many Afghans are anxious about the Taliban rule and are figuring out ways to get out of Afghanistan. (AP /Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Terrorists to state's men': Will UN go...

Put simply, the Taliban members of the new Afghan 'state' have blood on their hands

15 Sept 2021 2:14 AM IST