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Indian soldiers keep watch at India-China border. (AFP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Ladakh standoff: Can Galwan occur again?

Yet a Galwan could always happen as a spinoff from other circumstances, given the unpredictability of the LAC

15 Jun 2021 7:17 AM IST

P.V. Narasimha Rao (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

Sanjaya Baru | India's Great Helmsman: Salute to Narasimha Rao

Rao lent his prime ministerial imprimatur to the sweeping industrial and trade policy reforms that set India on a new...

14 Jun 2021 9:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath during a meeting, in New Delhi on June 11, 2021 (PTI)

Anita Katyal | UP rumblings: Yogi's men bank on Modi to allay 2022...

The BJP MLAs are hoping Yogi's meetings with the Prime Minister and home minister Amit Shah will yield positive results

13 Jun 2021 7:33 AM IST

The stock market is not a useful proxy for economic welfare. It tracks the well-being of an elitist minority in the formal sector, albeit with trickle down benefits. (By arrangement)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The morality of stock markets

Capital intensive competitive 'games' have a funneling effect where the biggest players benefit disproportionately

13 Jun 2021 7:14 AM IST

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar (PTI file photo)

Pavan K. Varma | Curb your enthusiasm, someone tell Dhankhar

Dhankharji's actions, to my mind, constitute a fit case for Prez Kovind to take suo motu initiative to counsel his...

13 Jun 2021 7:04 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath meets Home Minister Amit Shah, in New Delhi. (PTI)

Shobhaa De | Bombshell Barbara' vs the Robed Yogi' of UP

Political watchers believe a new axis is forming, which pitches the Modi-Shah combo against the Gadkari-Yogi jodi

12 Jun 2021 1:09 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | All the world's a stage: Gender, race, diversity &...

Through the last few decades, no choric group of white singers in the West would blacken their faces to represent black...

12 Jun 2021 12:17 AM IST

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)

Karan Thapar | Sedition: Time for SC to enforce its own rulings

96 per cent of sedition cases for criticising politicians and governments over the last decade were registered after...

11 Jun 2021 12:11 AM IST

Shilpa Nag, the Mysuru corporation commissioner, reportedly resigned from the IAS after accusing her senior, Rohini Sundari Dasari, deputy commissioner of the district, of interfering in her efforts to manage the pandemic.(ANI)

Dilip Cherian | As Centre-state crossfire builds up, morale sinks

A sarkari house in Delhi, as any government babu will tell you, is all about availability and location

10 Jun 2021 1:24 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why monopoly of power is a threat to democracy

In short, no matter how legitimately political power is acquired, justice demands the balancing factor of an opposition

10 Jun 2021 1:03 AM IST

A militant killed in an encounter with security forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. (PTI Photo)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Turbulent Afghanistan could impact Kashmir

Obviously, the flavour for jihadism is low at present, but it would be incorrect to assume it is all over

9 Jun 2021 12:35 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Modi's 15-point Vikas Yatra: How far has his govt really...

The Vikas Yatra document does not refer to what the result of India climbing on the index was

8 Jun 2021 7:21 AM IST