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The court noted the instance of PPS officer Rajinder Singh Sohal who was convicted in a criminal case but has been posted as the SSP of Gurdaspur, a post meant for the IPS cadre. (Representational Image/PTI)

Dilip Cherian | High court pulls up Punjab govt for tainted cops in...

The court has directed the state govt to explain how and why it has chosen to appoint PPS officers to IPS-cadre posts of...

1 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Devi Kar | Being politically correct in times of Covid & polls

Politics dominates society so powerfully that everywhere and at all times we are required to be 'politically correct'

1 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

A.G. Noorani | India in Nato? Is New Delhi ready for such a major...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, headquartered in Brussels, has long been in a reflective mood regarding its own...

31 March 2021 7:42 AM IST

No wonder Britains response was limited to grieving rhetoric when Beijing imposed sanctions on five ruling Conservative Party MPs, two peers, a barrister and an academic. (AFP file photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Weak Britain reluctant to confront aggressive...

Ramping up criticism of Beijing not only risks deterring future Chinese investment but could undermine British...

31 March 2021 7:25 AM IST

It appears that many Indians are not primarily voting on the basis of issues like the economy and their own well-being as measured by data provided by the government. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | India headed in wrong direction: Is it too late to...

We have become as much of a religious state as Pakistan and this is a fact

30 March 2021 1:16 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | NRIs a master race'? It's not they who are special

The NRIs who talk at our Pravasi Bharatiya melas hardly remit any money back home, but they talk a lot telling us what...

30 March 2021 1:14 AM IST

A new generation of RSS and BJP leaders are not inclined to update the Hindutva ideology because their basic presumption of glorifying a dead national past is their basic principle. (Photo:PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hosabale's rise: RSS-BJP ties still remain...

If the BJP survives in power, it may not need the RSS much longer

29 March 2021 4:19 AM IST

Now the news that our vaccine supply may be interrupted because the new wave in India will impact vaccine exports to the UK has spread gloom. (Photo: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | India wave hits UK's vax drive, amid adulation for...

India was headlined on the front page fortunately, in a way, it was a compliment, not a criticism

29 March 2021 4:01 AM IST

A country that lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2004 and 2014 is today staring at the spectre of a growing income and wealth inequality. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | INDIA'S GILDED AGE

This privatisation turned out to be more of a societal shock, rather than therapy for an ailing economy

28 March 2021 4:49 AM IST

Weve all been here before; reassured by our leaders that theyll take firm steps to protect women, we watch history repeating as they blithely fail. (Photo: PTI)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Connecting the Dots

After rampaging diseases, our single biggest problem is male violence

28 March 2021 4:21 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Acknowledge potential of Pope-Sistani historic tryst

Pardon my Lucknow chauvinism, but the benighted city once had intimate links with the centre of Shia Islam, Najaf, in...

28 March 2021 4:06 AM IST

There are other ways in which BoJos government behaves in an unsurprising manner. (Photo: AFP)

BoJo facing flak over legal' graft, dodging of tax & the nanny state'

Boris Johnson govt has, because of the Covid-19 crisis, done some peculiar things for a Conservative Party to have...

27 March 2021 4:46 AM IST