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UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with BJP MP Hema Malini during a public meeting in support of BJPs candidate Shrikant Sharma, ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, in Mathura, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. (PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | Modi, Yogi & UP election: High-stakes battle looms

Adityanath is plain bad news, and the praise heaped on him by the leader of the country is palpably false

4 Feb 2022 7:14 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Snobby Kerala babus ordered to remove flags on...

Even earlier, babus in Kerala had got into trouble for not putting registration number plates on official vehicles

3 Feb 2022 7:16 AM IST

Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman with Ministers of State for Finance Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad and Pankaj Chaudhary on her at Parliament for the presentation of the Union Budget 2022-23, in New Delhi. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Budget: Good intentions, but bit short on...

The expectation is that'growth' will come centre-stage from the next fiscal year as the pandemic becomes a bad memory

3 Feb 2022 7:09 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to address the media, ahead of the Budget Session 2022, in New Delhi, (PTI Photo/Arun Sharma)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi a political Pied Piper, sets 2024...

Mr Modi has a right to his own dreams and visions for the country, however much we may disagree with its dystopian...

2 Feb 2022 7:22 AM IST

Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman with MoS Pankaj Chaudhary arrives at Parliament for the presentation of the Union Budget 2022-23, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Feb 1, 2022. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore)

Chandrajit Banerjee | A transformational Budget for high, sustained...

The Budget has adopted just the right approach for catalysing growth with social inclusion

2 Feb 2022 7:12 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Can BJP lose its vote share, but still win in UP? Wait...

The broad patterns tell us that to sweep Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has to retain its vote share of the past three elections

1 Feb 2022 2:34 AM IST

Artists perform during Republic Day Parade 2022 at Rajpath in New Delhi, Wednesday, Jan 26, 2022. (PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | To celebrate the republic, focus on humble...

Around 230 million Indians were pushed into poverty during the last 12 months

1 Feb 2022 1:01 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Partygate to be watered down; dating fraud the newest...

Johnson has always managed to survive crisis upon crisis through machinations no one can predict

31 Jan 2022 2:15 AM IST

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (DC File)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Opp. divide to make it easy for govt in...

Budget Session of Parliament begins on Monday, January 31, and the first phase will last till February 11

31 Jan 2022 1:38 AM IST

Strictly speaking then, what afflicts men in midlife isnt menopause. Instead, they are men-who-pause. Pause in their middle years to upturn their lives. For better or worse. (Image by Arrangement)

Shreya Sen-Handley | The good, bad and ugly of midlife blips

With never enough money to research women's troubles', this island of no-return is relatively unexplored yet

30 Jan 2022 2:06 AM IST

Indias GDP to contract 16.5 pc in Q1 as pandemic spreads, says SBI report. (Representative Image)

Manish Tewari | Budget 22's key challenge: Employment generation

Every economy runs on four fundamentals employment, consumption, savings, and investment

30 Jan 2022 1:05 AM IST

A train burns after the aspirants set it on fire during their protest over alleged erroneous results of Railway Recruitment Boards-Non Technical Popular Categories (RRB-NTPC) exams, at Gaya Junction railway station. (Photo:PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Don't let hopes fall: Make jobs Budget's top...

In the pandemic's third year, jobs must be the top priority. It's not enough to depend on any trickle-down theory

28 Jan 2022 11:05 PM IST