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While Chidambaram is out on bail in the INX Media corruption case being probed by the CBI, the summons was issued to the bureaucrats and other accused after the court took cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the agency last month. (Photo: Representational | ANI)

Dilli Ka Babu | Civil servants under watch for corruption

Last year, the government endorsed lists of dozens of officers of the IRS and IT services accused of corruption and...

9 Sept 2020 5:18 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Mamallapuram on Friday, ahead of their informal summit talks. (Photo: Asian Age)

V Sudarshan | Wuhan and the garden of false expectations

Is it even possible that Modiji, chowkidar examplar, was blindsided by Xi and let himself be led up the garden path?

8 Sept 2020 3:13 PM IST

It is important to understand the performance of Telangana in education. PTI Photo

G. Kishan Reddy | NEP presents Telangana with opportunity to...

This is an opportunity that the state of Telangana cannot afford to miss at any cost

7 Sept 2020 5:39 PM IST

Akbar, the Great Mughal: Why are we obsessed with the Top Ten of kings?

Devulapalli | Time to move on from mythology

How about we put history aside for a bit and brush up on reason, scientific thinking and logic instead?

6 Sept 2020 11:15 PM IST

Sharmistha Mukherjee, daughter of the late Pranab Mukherjee. (Twitter/@Sharmistha_GK)

Waqyanawis | Sharmistha has Pranab Mukherjee's treasure trove

Amit Shah and the stars, Priyanka and her rented flat, and Jyotiraditya's long wait

6 Sept 2020 7:21 PM IST

File photo of prime minister Narendra Modi addressing BJP MPs.

Pavan K Varma | A Parliament without questions is no democracy

The decision to do away with Question Hour indicates that the government has no answers

6 Sept 2020 6:05 PM IST

Shobhaa De | Chana Kisney Khaaya Rasode Mein Kaun Tha?

Shobhaa De | Chana Kisney Khaaya Rasode Mein Kaun Tha?

This is the aftereffect of the GDP debacle, which has set India back by a staggering 24 per cent

5 Sept 2020 6:00 PM IST

Adele at the 59th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Racist and tribalist: The woke phobia for cultural...

The use of the cultures, inventions, science, of the West by other cultures isn't labelled expropriation'

5 Sept 2020 1:09 AM IST

A united Congress has a chance to strengthen its ranking; divided, the futures of all party members are at stake

Nilofar Suhrawardy | Bank on Gandhis, test non-Gandhis, start early...

The Congress is not a regional party and it is expected to give greater importance to a democratic process for electing...

4 Sept 2020 5:52 PM IST

A student undergoes thermal screening as she arrives to appear in JEE Main examination, at a center in Kozhikode. PTI Photo

Dev 360 | In any crisis, take care of the most vulnerable

Covid-19 has not only revealed vulnerabilities and inequalities in the education systems across the world, it has made...

4 Sept 2020 5:28 PM IST

Rahat Indori was five years old when the much loved poet Majaz died of a stroke after he was found on the freezing terrace of a country liquor shop in Lucknows Qaisar Bagh. Photo: Twitter

Saeed Naqvi | Rahat Indori, a theme for Bollywood with built-in lyrics

What will be Rahat's place in literature?

4 Sept 2020 4:42 PM IST

The last active politician who became President before Pranab Mukherjee was Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1992. So it was not an easy going for Pranab. File Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Pranab Da's politics: Adept at managing...

Pranab showed that he was capable in dealing with the intricacies of administration without handing over levers of power...

4 Sept 2020 4:23 PM IST