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Former finance secretary Rajiv Kumar takes charge as the new Election Commissioner in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Dilli Ka Babu | Rajiv Kumar in sight of CEC chair in 2024

He replaces Ashok Lavasa, who is leaving to join the Asian Development Bank as vice-president

2 Sept 2020 7:17 PM IST

In this 2014 file photo, the audience reacts during the Proms at Royal Albert Hall, London. The BBC has ditched the lyrics of Rule Britannia! for its traditional summer-ending concert amid a controversy over the songs celebration of the British Empire. (AP file photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | BBC Proms: Bosses caught between govt line and woke...

Public hoo-ha between the BBC and the prime minister over song lyrics

2 Sept 2020 12:28 AM IST

A man rests in front of closed book stalls during a day long state-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against the surge in Covid-19 coronavirus cases, in Kolkata. AFP Photo

Mohan Guruswamy | Is another global economic crisis now inevitable?

The essential problem we must confront is how to rectify a world economic system that has gone hopelessly wrong

1 Sept 2020 5:56 PM IST

WB asks Railways not to send Shramik Special trains to state till May 26 in view of Cyclone Amphan. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Unlock' rules are illogical: If flights allowed, why not...

The Indian Railways is still by and large largely shut, and has been shut since the lockdown began

1 Sept 2020 5:34 PM IST

A woman rides a scooter past an advertising board outside a closed down branch of STA Travel near Victoria Station in central London. AFP Photo

Kishwar Desai | The latest ruse to meet people; e-cycles are the new...

How London traffic will cope with bicycles as well as e-cycles remains to be seen

31 Aug 2020 5:35 PM IST

A man plays a guitar in front of riot police line during Belarusian opposition supporters rally near the Palace of Independence in Minsk, Belarus

Manish Tewari | The centrality of dissent

Ultimately what remains are the voices of dissidents celebrated for speaking truth to power, for attempting a...

31 Aug 2020 5:07 PM IST

Former vice-president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden (L) and Senator from California and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris greet supporters outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware. AFP Photo

K.C. Singh | Is Modi government ready for Biden-Harris sarkar?

US voters are living through mishandled pandemic, economic chaos and racial tension caused street violence

30 Aug 2020 2:26 AM IST

Waqyanawis | 23 vs 23: Is affable Ahmed Patel the villain' of the...

The grudge against otherwise affable Patel is that he is pushing his favourites at all levels of the Congress hierarchy

30 Aug 2020 1:16 AM IST

An Indian army vehicle moves towards Ladakh, amid India-China border dispute in eastern Ladakh, at Bara-lacha la mountain pass in Lahual district. PTI Photo

Claude Arpi | Chinese mischief likely in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand

The first Chinese incursion in Barahoti, in today's Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, occurred in June 1954

29 Aug 2020 4:30 PM IST

A couple kiss as they visit an outdoor light immersive experience exhibition during the 2020 Beijing International Light Festival at a park in Beijing. AFP Photo

Shreya Sen-Handley | The pandemic kissiquette

Since kissing from two metres away is a physical impossibility, this rule isn't hard to maintain except for politicians...

28 Aug 2020 8:00 PM IST

Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi chairs a virtual meeting with Chief Ministers of 7 states to discuss various issues, in New Delhi

Anand K Sahay | It's time for Congress to change its culture'

The ruling party's object, no doubt, is to spread a sense of deepening organisational crisis in the Congress

28 Aug 2020 7:06 PM IST

Workers at a flyover construction site during reimposed weekend lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Jammu. AP Photo

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | After COVID devastation, India to need...

If the pandemic does end in two years, as WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus predicts, it will leave behind...

26 Aug 2020 8:02 PM IST