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Senior Congress MP Ghulam Nabi Azad and other opposition lawmakers protest against the farm and labour bills at Parliament House in New Delhi. (PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | Whenever cornered, BJP says 'Eulalie' to opposition...

That's how the ruling party gets to enjoy so much legislative and executive leverage

27 Sept 2020 7:17 PM IST

AAP MP Sanjay Singh stages a protest over his suspension from the remaining monsoon session of Parliament over the ruckus created in the Rajya Sabha. (PTI)

Anand K Sahay | Can fury over farm bills trigger a wider stir?

It is clear as day that continuance of MSP runs against the logic of the two laws cleared by Parliament

27 Sept 2020 3:50 PM IST

A UN handout photo shows delegates attending the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. (AFP)

Covid shadow at UN-75: Some lessons for India

Covid-19's shadow looms over the 75th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly

27 Sept 2020 3:05 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation during the 74th Independence Day celebrations, at Red Fort in New Delhi, Saturday. (PTI)

Waqyanawis | Modi's beard, Nirmala's bad luck, Azad's final speech

Ghulam Nabi Azad said that if the winter session is postponed he might not be back in the Rajya Sabha

27 Sept 2020 1:31 PM IST

Migrant workers along with their family members walk to their villages, due to no means of transport, during the nationwide lockdown, near Anand Vihar railway station in New Delhi (PTI)

Dev 360 | 'No data is not good enough

On matters of life and death, such as the coronavirus pandemic, it is important that data be in the public domain

25 Sept 2020 9:48 PM IST

Britains prime minister Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons in London on September 23, 2020. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Now an amnesty for war crimes, and a law that allows...

Britain arms itself with laws that enable practices that were once the preserve of openly savage savage regimes

25 Sept 2020 7:49 PM IST

Farmers shout slogans as they march to protest against the Union governments agriculture reforms in Amritsar. (AFP)

Parsa | What is PM Modi afraid of?

The prime minister should have used the debate on farm bills to underscore their virtues

24 Sept 2020 9:53 PM IST

Earlier on Wednesday, the Indian Air Force, Army and the civil administration of Arunachal Pradesh started a massive operation to reach the crash site. (Photo: ANI)

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Are we ready for give & take' with China at LAC?

Identifying the border in Arunachal is difficult because the British left large stretches of it without delineation or...

24 Sept 2020 12:22 PM IST

The Central Vista project design (Image: HCP Designs)

Shobhaa De | A monument to a monumental ego

Heritage and history need to be respected, even by those determined to rewrite both

19 Sept 2020 5:32 PM IST

Protesters throw a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour, during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in Bristol, England. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | The politics of erasing Gunga Din

The Black Lives Matter upheaval has resulted in this reappraisal of history

19 Sept 2020 4:41 PM IST

: Protesters throw stones on security personnel after an encounter with militants, at Batamaloo in Srinagar. PTI Photo

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmiris respond to Centre with Gupkar II'

Its defining feature can be summed by a phrase in it: nothing about us without us

18 Sept 2020 6:37 PM IST

BJP wrote a letter to home minister Anil Deshmukh urging him to roll out a more aggressive action plan to protect Mumbai police. (PTI Photo)

Dilli ka Babu | 7 former DGPs jump in to defend Mumbai police

Their petition to Bombay High Court says there are sinister designs behind the campaign

17 Sept 2020 7:56 PM IST