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Chinas Premier Li Keqiang has developed an index which measures real GDP growth through three indicators railway cargo volume, electricity consumption and loans disbursed. Representational Image. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | The middle class is not growing What does future hold...

The government is run like a kingdom and the elected leader does not need to respond to questions or hold press...

27 July 2021 2:28 AM IST

Nations can have long memories and diplomacy can become the victim of its past actions. Representational Image. (Twitter)

K C Singh | Taliban's gains, US exit add to India's dilemma

The issue was how to balance this policy tweak against India's long-standing policy of nonalignment for close to half a...

27 July 2021 2:07 AM IST

Japan placed its bid for the 2020 Olympics (now being held in 2021 thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic) five years after China made its dramatic entry onto the world sporting stage playing host to the Beijing Olympics.

Sanjaya Baru | Games nations play: Sport, geopolitics & the Olympics

Hosting them and securing medals has also been about national pride and geopolitics

26 July 2021 3:56 AM IST

Clearly, the various bans and other edicts by the Indian government to keep out Chinese-made products in the aftermath of the Galwan attack in June 2020 had no practical effect in the marketplace. Representational Image.

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India needs to tackle China the way that it...

Blind or not, Indians appear supinely negligent to the Chinese threat

26 July 2021 2:56 AM IST

It was Roger Federer we wanted to watch but we watched everything that was on offer.

Ranjona Banerji | Keeping score, for the love of tennis and for mother

It was in the 2000s that this love for tennis was reborn to a fulltime obsession and it was Roger Federer who did it

25 July 2021 1:09 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Pegashush! It's another' international conspiracy

This is precisely what we are seeing in the response of the BJP and the government to the Pegasus saga

25 July 2021 1:07 AM IST

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. (PTI Photo)

Anita Katyal | Priyanka comes into her own; Vaishnaw debut...

It is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who pitched for Sidhu's appointment as Punjab Congress chief

25 July 2021 1:05 AM IST

Shakespeare (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | In UK, linguistic revolutionaries' try to ban' those...

What the boy is asking himself is should he endure these S and As or should he fight against such opposition or...

24 July 2021 1:18 AM IST

Prashant Kishor. (DC file photo)

Shobhaa De | PK: Can mover-shaker' pull off a coup' in 2024?

Prashant Kishor has emerged as a political A-lister pretty recently

24 July 2021 1:16 AM IST

claims NSO IT minister has said some of the countries listed in the Pegasus expose as its clients are incorrect. Representational Image (Twitter)

Karan Thapar | Pegasus expose: Will the govt order a real probe?

At the very least, a democratic government committed to defending the rights of its citizens would immediately order a...

23 July 2021 1:51 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had earlier sent a formal invitation to Sidhu to attend the inaugural ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor in Pakistan. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Sidhu is Cong wild card for Punjab's 2022...

Apparently, neither Mr Gandhi nor the Congress high command really liked the idea of a state leader who was on his own

22 July 2021 12:10 AM IST

Security personnel inspect a damaged vehicle which was firing rockets in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. At least three rockets hit near the presidential palace on Tuesday shortly before Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was to give an address to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid-a-Adha. (AP)

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Afghan turmoil, Pak role: What keeps India...

The spectre of Afghanistan again under the fundamentalist Taliban haunts global thinking

21 July 2021 12:28 AM IST