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Evidence produced in court showed how unsuspecting officers had been giving out information on their postings and the whereabouts of other colleagues on social media, putting national security at risk, despite earlier advisories on conduct of military personnel on social media. (Photo | Pixabay - PixelKult)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | New online, digital code fails to empower...

Fake news is a significant reason that media literacy has emerged strongly in the education curricula around the world

2 March 2021 10:20 AM IST

Twenty million have already been vaccinated (36 per cent of population), more than in France, Germany, Italy and Spain put together. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Britain's spot of schadenfreude; pregnancy triggers...

The only problem with the hot weather is that all chances of social distancing are gone!

1 March 2021 4:33 AM IST

Quoting statistics of ceasefire violations (CFVs) over the years is meaningless. Its more important to understand how and why those ceasefire agreements did not succeed. (Photo: PTI)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Special effort needed in Pak to make truce work

What it takes to keep the ceasefire in place without violations is the existence of a conducive political and diplomatic...

1 March 2021 4:18 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Modi's eighth Budget looms, there's still no grand...

Unemployment has naturally followed the opposite trajectory, going from about 4% before Modi became PM to 6% and then to...

31 Jan 2021 12:37 AM IST

Manish Tewari | A New Deal for India

Our new deal must push demand by both putting money both into the economy and directly into the hands of the people

31 Jan 2021 12:23 AM IST

Sharon Lowen | View from the Covid cocoon

The inspiration came from an idea to scan my daughter's childhood photos for a digital birthday gift as I couldn't give...

31 Jan 2021 12:19 AM IST

In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 a member of staff draws the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine out of a phial at the Southmead Hospital, Briston. (Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Time to bust anti-vaccine myths as all must get jab!

Some brave mullahs have turned their Islamic halls into vaccination centres and encouraged the community to get jabbed

30 Jan 2021 7:35 AM IST

India and China have been locked in a prolonged standoff in the area in the Sikkim sector since June 16 after Chinese troops began constructing a road near the Bhutan trijunction. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | China is on the rampage: Is India's elite...

On the Republic Day eve, it was clear the Dragon's aim and design was to devastate Delhi, to bleed India white and to...

30 Jan 2021 7:25 AM IST

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Sreeram Chaulia l Vaccine diplomacy is India's finest hour

The most remarkable feature of India's mission to supply the much- sought-after doses to a pandemic-plagued world is its...

29 Jan 2021 4:15 AM IST

Congress flag (Image source: Freepik)

Anand K Sahay l Can Rahul or anyone salvage Congress, or will it...

The BJP had come into its own and formed governments at the Centre under a well-liked figure. In contrast, the Congress...

29 Jan 2021 4:15 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Foreign assets on IRS radar as CBDT lobbies for more...

Speculation is rife that Mr Sharma could be named the home minister or even deputy chief minister of UP

28 Jan 2021 7:13 AM IST

Security tightened at Red Fort, a day after it was stormed by protesting farmers during their tractor march, in New Delhi, Wednesday, January 27, 2021. (PTI /Kamal Singh)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | As farmers lose ground, government will...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has kept himself aloof from the issue apart from giving general, vague rhetorical responses

28 Jan 2021 7:06 AM IST