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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

No entity could receive foreign aid even as medicines or equipment to save lives, without being registered under the NGO law, called the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.

Aakar Patel | To widen ease of biz in India, lift draconian curbs on...

NGOs, or non-governmental organisations, are the third largest workforce in the United States

20 July 2021 10:15 PM IST

Justice Prateek Jalan ordered CBSE to consider as representation a petition by Deepa Joseph, mother of a Class 10 student studying in a CBSE affiliated school here, who had paid Rs 2,100 as examination fee. (PTI Photo)

Devi Kar | With flexi' exam formula, focus on quality learning

In brief, the Central Board of Secondary Education plans to split the examination of Class 10 and Class 12 students into...

20 July 2021 2:38 AM IST

The biggest frustration for the British, who are incorrigible travellers, is that they are having to scrap their summer holiday plans. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Kishwar Desai | Climate leveller; Javid infection puts a dampener on...

some of the Freedom Day plans which were to be announced by the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, on this weekend, are...

18 July 2021 11:51 PM IST

Thousands of Afghan women banned from public life during the Taliban days. Representational Image. (PTI)

Indranil Banerjie | Dark days loom for Afghans: Will Kabul die another...

After a bitter nine-year war, Mikhail Gorbachev finally pulled the plug on a conflict that had claimed thousands of...

18 July 2021 11:50 PM IST

Taming regulatory excess in retail markets

Sadly, legislation, in democracies, is strongly influenced by political economy which dilutes technical good sense

18 July 2021 7:47 AM IST

No free lunch in diplomacy: India's lesson in Afghanistan

It perhaps may be instructive for Indian strategic elites to acknowledge the American trajectory of leaving allies in...

18 July 2021 1:45 AM IST

England beat Denmark in the semi-finals of the European Football Cup and will now play Italy in the final on Sunday. (Representational Image: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Adieu fair play: Sportsmanship under threat in...

For some viewers in that room, the game had turned into a metaphorical political war

17 July 2021 12:49 AM IST

Population explosion has been a regularly used trope to incite fear and panic in many Third World countries. (Representational Image)

Karan Thapar | Population: Will solution' make our problem worse?

The truth is that India's census data confirms our population growth is slowing

17 July 2021 12:46 AM IST

An all-party meeting is a customary procedure before the beginning of every session of Parliament to ensure its smooth functioning. (Photo: AFP/file)

Anand K Sahay | Changing the optics in a Lilliputian democracy'

Covid-19 has come as a handy addition to the book of tricks, not a deadly virus to be fought tooth and nail by a...

16 July 2021 1:04 AM IST