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Army vehicles move towards eastern Ladakh amid the prolonged India-China stand off, in Leh. (PTI)

Skand Tayal | India weighs options as it faces Chinese intransigence

The seventh round of the corps commander-level talks between India and China has not led to any notable advance on the...

16 Oct 2020 10:06 AM IST

Videograb from the controversial Tanishq ad.

Karan Thapar | The beauty of oneness': Has today's India lost it?

The advertisement trolls excoriated celebrated the love of a Muslim mother-in-law for her Hindu daughter-in-law

16 Oct 2020 9:51 AM IST

Parliamentarians participate in a debate in the Lok Sabha today. (PTI)

Shruti Lakhtakia |A new mantra? Seek, and you shall find; ask, it will...

The value of Question Hour, as an institution that offers the opportunity to question the government and to demand...

15 Oct 2020 7:26 PM IST

Professors Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, winners of the 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. (Image: Twitter/@Stanford)

Mohan Guruswamy | Auction theory' Nobel: But do people benefit?

Of all Nobel Prize disciplines, it is probably Economics after Medicine that touches the everyday life of mankind

15 Oct 2020 9:56 AM IST

The total value of the freezed assets is Rs 56.21 crore.

Dilli ka babu | RAW and IB set to teach tax officers about tradecraft'

The training programme is being conducted by the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) of the finance ministry.

14 Oct 2020 10:18 PM IST

PM Modi inaugurates first ever optical fibre cable project for Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (PTI Photo)

Can CMs help India set up political alternative?

The current wisdom, and most opinion polls, indicate that the PM's popularity is overwhelming

14 Oct 2020 10:04 PM IST

Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane and Harsh V Shringla, Foreign Secretary along with Saurabh Kumar called on State Counsellor H.E. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. (Via Indian Embassy in Myanmar)

Sunanda K Datta Ray | Tackle Xi in Myanmar but don't forget the...

The electoral outcome is bound to leave a heavy imprint on Myanmar's place on the chequerboard of Asia's power politics

12 Oct 2020 11:21 PM IST

Indias services activity collapses as coronavirus palayses global economy. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | If you do not admit there's a crisis, you can't solve...

The problem is a major one, and it affects not just the Prime Minister but hundreds of millions of people across the...

12 Oct 2020 10:55 PM IST

A pedestrian walks past a poster of a person wearing a face covering, in the high street in west London. AFP photo

Ill, Boris had a harder time; virus blow to James Bond

The only constant is that like the scientists, the government is also at a loss

12 Oct 2020 3:58 PM IST

Farmers light candles in support of the Haryana farmers organisations as they announced to protests against three farm laws on the outskirts of Amritsar. PTI photo

Manish Tewari | How farm laws might hurt national security

After the 1965 war the MSP regime and public procurement were introduced in 1966-67 for wheat and later expanded to...

12 Oct 2020 3:22 PM IST

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson maintains a minutes silence to honour the frontline workers who lost their lives in the coronavirus outbreak. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Will India too leave divided histories', like US &...

The mass support, diverse and white for BLM, indicates that Britain too wants to leave divided histories behind.

11 Oct 2020 8:52 AM IST

Indias Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (lower L), Japans Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (lower R), Japans Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (centre R), Australias Foreign Minister Marise Payne (centre L) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (top L) attend a Quad Indo-Pacific meeting at the prime ministers office in Tokyo. AP Photo

K.C.Singh | Can Quad' grow into a force that China fears?

This week's Quad meeting was timely also because Japan had a change of leadership, with the ailing Abe passing the baton...

9 Oct 2020 4:05 PM IST