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The Windsor Castle funeral, with the restrictions on gatherings imposed by the Covid lockdown, prevented any mass congregation of citizens, but still they came in their hundreds to profess their love for a man they had never met. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | BBC's Di interview, Harry & Meghan Why do the Brits...

Prime Ministers are not permanent and that even in those countries the populace doesn't love them like the tribal Brits...

5 Jun 2021 2:13 AM IST

Its a clear warning for former spies and spooks, and others who know a little too much about the secrets of the State, that they will lose their pension and other benefits if they were to spill the beans. (Twitter)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The business of gagging retired spooks...

Citizens of a democratic state have a right to know whether the money they pay in taxes is used for diabolical acts like...

5 Jun 2021 1:01 AM IST

The WHO and international bodies have now, belatedly, started an investigation into the origins of the virus, but its credibility has already hit rock bottom in the eyes of most people in the affected nations. (Representational image: AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Why China needs to pay reparations to the...

No one is quite sure what lies in store for the world's second most populous country six months from now

4 Jun 2021 1:55 AM IST

A doctor examines a man for the symptoms of mucormycosis at a government hospital in Mumbai, May 25, 2021. (AP /Rafiq Maqbool)

Why is medical care making Covid-hit sicker, poorer in India?

Indians with Covid-19 are advised to take a large assortment of minerals and vitamins that again have not been shown to...

4 Jun 2021 1:40 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Too much PMO! Ex-babus chide Modi on vaccine policy,...

The 'coalition' of the willing that Mr Modi seemed to have created since his ascent to power in 2014 is now beginning to...

3 Jun 2021 7:16 AM IST

Women and children line up to receive free meals from a non-government organization during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Bengaluru, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP/Aijaz Rahi)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Protect vulnerable to heal fractures, revive...

In the absence of a real social protection mechanism in the cities, people have gone back to their villages

3 Jun 2021 7:05 AM IST

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the State Department in Washington, on May 28, 2021. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Aakar Patel | How Jaishankar put on mat in US over Hindutva and other...

India under Narendra Modi has spent a lot of energy in drafting laws that go after minorities

2 Jun 2021 7:20 AM IST

Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei province. (AFP file photo)

Sriram Karri | Game score at halftime: China 1, Mankind 0

It looks unlikely with the pace at which Covid is moving around the global field if there can be an equaliser

2 Jun 2021 7:06 AM IST

Making a socially just world requires much more than condemning oppressors and crying with the oppressed. (Representational image: Mahmud Hams /Pool Photo via AP, File)

Pervez Hoodbhoy | Why are Arabs powerless? It's not guns; ideas rule...

In a nutshell, imperialist conquests showed that brains would rule over brawn: a stark truth that got still starker with...

1 Jun 2021 7:30 AM IST

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the State Department in Washington, May 28, 2021. (AP/PTI)

K.C. Singh | To improve India's image, govt needs a reality check

The US will help but may extract greater alignment with its interests in the Indo-Pacific against China, on climate...

1 Jun 2021 7:26 AM IST

These findings highlight the urgent need for countries to implement stronger tobacco control measures (Photo: AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | Tobacco India's top health crisis: Act now, or just...

It is not that the incidence of smoking is low in India if we take into consideration the widespread bidi habit

31 May 2021 7:39 AM IST

Narendra Modis imperious manner as Prime Minister contrasts with his attitude towards the Central government as the chief minister of Gujarat and his promise of pursuing cooperative federalism . (ANI)

Sanjaya Baru | Flux in Centre-state ties with breakdown of trust

A cooperative relationship between the two is essential for good governance in a quasi-federal administrative system...

31 May 2021 7:25 AM IST