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Farmers who came from Punjab and Haryana to protest against the new Farmers Law reached at Burari ground raising slogans to withdraw the anti-farmers law, in New Delhi on Saturday, 28 Nov 2020. (DC Image: D Kamraj)

Opinion

Pavan K. Varma | At best, farm laws pass reform buck to big biz

The question is not that agricultural commerce needs to be opened up, but what is going to replace it

29 Nov 2020 9:53 AM IST

Sanitation employee adjust the tyres for distance maintenance before starting Swab tests due to COVID0-19 at Bishop Grassi school in Vijayawada. (DC Image:Narayana Rao)

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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Different, and same: Pandemic musings

The ongoing pandemic's most telling debris other than heightened neurosis and germaphobia are the ubiquitous masks

29 Nov 2020 9:45 AM IST

Are we pinning unrealistic hopes on the vaccine saving humanity? (Representational Image:AP)

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Shobhaa De | High hopes over vaccine: Are we being unrealistic?

Here's my prediction for what it is worth: our great PM will be the first, high-profile citizen to take the vaccine

28 Nov 2020 5:19 AM IST

Screengrab from A Suitable Boy. (Twitter)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Row over a kiss: It's puritanism, not a breach of...

There is no puritan tradition in Hinduism which would forbid the depiction of two lovers kissing outside a KFC shop or a...

28 Nov 2020 5:11 AM IST

The BJP is trying to hard sell itself for the GHMC elections by pressing its top guns like Union home minister Amit Shah, BJP president J.P. Nadda and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, besides a slew of union ministers, into service with an eye first on occupying the opposition space, and then to take a moonshot. (DC Image: R.Pavan)

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A Saye Sekhar | BJP, TRS play politics of alternatives

A civic body poll drawing national attention is apparently a first-of-its-kind phenomenon in India

27 Nov 2020 8:31 AM IST

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Karan Thapar | Contempt of court': A relook may be needed

Many will ask whether judges need to accept satire and criticism with good gracerather than seek protection of the law...

27 Nov 2020 5:47 AM IST

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi (Photo: ANI)

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Saeed Naqvi | Does a liberal' Muslim leader have a future in India's...

The enigma of Asaduddin Owaisi acquires new salience after his success in Bihar

27 Nov 2020 4:32 AM IST

Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay. (Photo: AP)

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Claude Arpi | Use Tibet links, counter China in the Himalayas

Though the Indian government never wanted to be politically involved with Tibet, the age-old ties have remained alive

26 Nov 2020 5:20 AM IST

All the hopes pinned on Prime Minister Modis AtmaNirbhar Bharat and Make in India drives would have been eviscerated had we been in RCEP.

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | RECP: Why India must be firm on staying out

What India has done about the RCEP is perfect. It couldn't be otherwise

26 Nov 2020 4:29 AM IST

Union minister Nitin Gadkari. (PTI Photo)

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Dilip Cherian | Who's afraid of Nitin Gadkari?

It is indeed rare for the political executive to haul up the bureaucracy in the manner that Gadkari did

25 Nov 2020 2:02 AM IST

$US President Donald Trump delivers an update on \Operation Warp Speed\ in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP)$ Opinion

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | If Trumpism' outlives Trump, America loses

During the last four years the United States suffered what former President Barack Obama calls 'truth decay'

25 Nov 2020 1:59 AM IST

An Indian nationals returns to India after being stranded due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus, at the India Pakistan-Wagah Border Post, some 35 km from Amritsar on November 23, 2020. (AFP)

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Aakar Patel | From testing to travel, India's Covid handling process...

A report from Bloomberg this week said that questionable testing in India could be the reason why our Covid-19 numbers...

24 Nov 2020 12:01 AM IST