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It was a long complicated Bill but after four-and-a-half years of bickering and three Prime Ministers, Parliament approved the Bill by 11 pm. Then the Queen, as Head of State, signed it near midnight and the UK had legally approved of Brexit (Representational Image: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | UK's freedom' at midnight; Queen's NY honours go to 89...

2020 had one last blow to deliver. Partly responsible was the super-super spreader mutation of Covid-19

4 Jan 2021 4:32 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | Gangsters, gurus and other political spirits

There are four steps with which you deal with opposition: saama, daana, bheda, and danda

3 Jan 2021 4:24 AM IST

Manish Tewari | Is institutional collapse this decade's new story?

The first crisis came with the imposition of internal Emergency on the 25th of June 1975

3 Jan 2021 4:06 AM IST

As the saying goes, Britannia may have ruled the waves and now it has disastrously decided to waive the rules (Representational Image: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | At last, Britain is free of EU Now see who'll make it...

The EU was the insurance and safeguard against the global dominance of the American and Chinese hegemonies

2 Jan 2021 12:15 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After horrors of 2020, is 2021 the year of...

Out-of-season foods have become scarce on supermarket shelves as labour is disrupted and crops are at risk of rotting in...

2 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

Sunanda K Datta Ray | Hope in the new dawn after ravages of 2020?

India's rich became richer amidst the pain and penury, death and disease that marked 2020 as a year of suffering

1 Jan 2021 4:18 AM IST

2021: A magical bridge across troubled waters

The enhanced vaccine cover will, we hope, diminish social and economic disruptions.

31 Dec 2020 4:43 AM IST

Govt's lateral entry move fails as babus protect turf

Until 2014, the chairmanship of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) was held by dairy professionals

31 Dec 2020 4:42 AM IST

Raj Mohan Tella | Are smart words keeping you company?

Words, narratives and the meanings associated with them all are important to brand messaging

30 Dec 2020 7:36 AM IST

Aijaz Hussain (C), the BJP candidate for the District Development Council (DDC) polls celebrates after he won a DDC seat in Srinagar on December 22, 2020. (Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)

Anand K Sahay | After DDC: Will Centre further alienate J&K?

Much sought success in the BJP's bid to seek to stamp its political authority in J&K through the DDC polls failed to...

30 Dec 2020 7:16 AM IST

The corporate groups are not in charge of how much of its agriculture and dairy India can export. It is the government that will have to force other nations to open their markets to our farmers (Image:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Farmers won't put trust in PM, dharna unlikely to be...

Agriculture exports fell from $43 billion in 2013, before Mr Modi, to $38 billion last year

29 Dec 2020 4:35 AM IST

o make farming profitable, two things need to happen. One is that fewer people be involved in it, and the other is that farm produce gets higher prices (PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Farmers' stir link with rural distress tenuous

The suicide rate in India, an agrarian economy, was 13 per 100,000, the rate in industrialised, rich countries was often...

29 Dec 2020 4:06 AM IST