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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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | Why not do the obvious thing? Repeal 3 laws, end farm...

On January 12 this year, the Supreme Court 'stayed' the implementation of the farm laws

14 Sept 2021 2:39 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | Why nations' don't fail even though states' fail

A State is an organised political community, living under a government and that is a sovereign political entity in...

14 Sept 2021 1:37 AM IST

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