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Defense personnel carry a flag-draped casket of Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Armed forces Bipin Rawat at Palam airport in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. (AP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Rawat death a blow: Stick to unified...

India is moving towards a unified command of all the three wings of the defence services for the first time

10 Dec 2021 2:33 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Shadow boxing over Aadhaar seems puzzling

Suspension of Indian Forest Service officer Bennichen Thomas by the Kerala govt has created a row between the Centre and...

9 Dec 2021 9:40 AM IST

Police guard an area after 14 civilians were killed by Indian security forces over the weekend in Mon district, Nagaland (Photo by AFP)

Wasbir Hussain | Nagaland firing's fallout: Spotlight back on AFSPA

During the past few days following the Mon incident, the chorus for the repeal of AFSPA has been growing across the...

9 Dec 2021 9:14 AM IST

Thousands of schoolchildren in India have regressed disturbingly in the past one and a half years. (Representational Image. DC Image)

Devi Kar | Going back to normal' in the classroom sets off fresh fears

With every fresh discovery of a new variant, a frisson of fear is now felt across the world

8 Dec 2021 3:03 AM IST

The diaspora would not have swollen to more than 30 million if Indians had found India a more attractive place to live in. (Representational Image. AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | New messiahs of diaspora: India's success or...

The answer to the dilemma lies at home

8 Dec 2021 2:50 AM IST

President Joe Biden is not off the mark when he says that the challenge to liberal democracy as a system of governance is not yet over, nor perhaps shall ever be so. (Representational Image. AP)

K.C Singh | Biden red lines' welcome in global democracy push

A debate among political scientists has been persisting for some time over the state of democracies globally

7 Dec 2021 2:17 AM IST

Twenty-three crore Indians fell into poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic and the unemployment rate, which had already reached a post-1947 high of six per cent by 2018, remains there. (Representational Image. PTI)

Aakar Patel | From Dec 2019 to Dec 2021: A time of trouble, problems...

The state today has no democracy and is the only Indian state/Union territory without an elected government

7 Dec 2021 1:57 AM IST

The Sharad Pawar-Mamata Banerjee meeting in Mumbai recently signalled a closing of ranks between two successful parties, both offshoots from the Congress and its formidable legacy. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | As Indian polity matures, new politics is on the...

For both the smaller regional parties and the Congress, the BJP is the common enemy

6 Dec 2021 2:31 AM IST

Omicron has taken over our Christmas in a way no one expected. (Representational Image. AFP)

Kishwar Desai | No kisses under the mistletoe; but shouldn't libraries...

Students from Kings College are in the middle of a protest saying that they would like to remain in the library for 24...

6 Dec 2021 1:25 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | Stolen naps and other secrets from the library

The library was a large quiet hall full of bookshelves with the librarian in a cubicle near the door and a couple of...

5 Dec 2021 1:46 AM IST

Police officer pays tribute to the martyrs at the Police Martyrs Memorial to mark the 13th anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, in Mumbai, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | Why 26/11 required a kinetic response

It, however, is a serious matter of discussion as to how Pakistan perceived the policy of strategic restraint

5 Dec 2021 1:15 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Style matters: Of dress codes and asserting...

This, gentle reader, is an idle musing on a detail of our great, contemporary, egalitarian world

3 Dec 2021 11:48 PM IST