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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)

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

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

Sreeram Chaulia | Beyond the RCEP: India matters in Indo-Pacific

Since the signing of the RCEP agreement, criticism of India for sitting out the mega free trade pact has arisen in some...

23 Nov 2020 11:54 PM IST

Kishwar Desai | Anti-Semitism is why Meghnad quit; all hope for...

On the personal front, it was quite a tumultuous week for us, as my husband, Meghnad Desai, left the Labour Party after...

22 Nov 2020 9:07 PM IST

A group of security guards walk past a billboard for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | Theatres of the New Cold War

The next theatre of the Cold War would be Africa where the Chinese have invested resources much before the formal...

22 Nov 2020 8:48 PM IST

A health worker wearing PPE kit collects sample from a girl for COVID-19 test, at a Childrens Home in New Delhi, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. (PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Get priorities straight in time of a pandemic

Amid the deaths, disease, debt and despair, guess what some state governments in India are concerned about?

22 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

Army sets up upgraded living facilities for troops in eastern Ladakh. (PTI)

Syed Ata Hasnain | China's Ladakh chimera: India needs to stand firm

A few plain facts need to be kept in mind when examining the current situation

21 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

Twitter app icon. (AP)

Ranjona Banerji | How I tweeted away my pandemic summer

I say this to sound like I have an all-round life, but I mean Twitter

21 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

An illustration picture taken on November 19, 2020, shows a vial with Covid-19 Vaccine sticker, a syringe and an earth globe. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Vaccines on the way amid talk of conspiracies, Bill...

When the vaccine was announced, instead lining up for a shot, I read all manner of lunatic anti-vaccine propaganda

21 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

Children wave from a tram during a joy ride in Kolkata, Nov. 14, 2020. (PTI)

Devi Kar | Prepare kids for future as worries rise amidst COVID

It is such a difficult time for school-leavers that the past seems unnaturally alluring while the future looks pretty...

20 Nov 2020 11:06 AM IST

Workers prepare a campaign vehicle for the BJP, ahead of the GHMC elections, in Hyderabad, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. (PTI)

Sriram Karri | Can KCR's gameplan stop Modi juggernaut?

BJP has already pushed TRS into a spot by making GHMC elections about nationalist Hindutva, a template it has not really...

20 Nov 2020 10:56 AM IST

Janata Dal (United) President and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar arrives at party office, in Patna, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (PTI)

Anand K Sahay | BJP's hopes for its own CM in Patna get dashed

Bihar is the only state in north India, besides Jammu and Kashmir (now a UT) and Punjab, where the BJP has not had its...

19 Nov 2020 5:50 PM IST

Border Security Force Personnel (BSF) stand guard in a motor launch. (PTI)

Dilip Cherian | MHA hard put to find officers ready to serve in...

A year after the change in the status of J&K and Ladakh, there is an acute shortage of IAS, IPS and other all-India...

19 Nov 2020 5:42 PM IST