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Mumbai: Jyoti Randhe, a class 10th student of BMC school, studies at her house, at Aarey Colony in Mumbai. AFP Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | NEP is ambitious, but needs more...

To put the ideas of the plan into action, many more institutions have to be set up

1 Aug 2020 4:26 PM IST

One hypothesis is that Sushant had visitors, or perhaps a small party, the previous day or evening, and that the crime was done by people known to him

Bela Bhatia | Getting away with murder in Bollywood

Experts and fans have pointed to many reasons why Sushant's death is likely to be a murder

31 July 2020 8:03 PM IST

: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Rajasthan PCC President Govind Singh Dotasra (R) and others arrive at party office, in Jaipur. PTI Photo

Sanjay Kumar | Reviving Congress will be a very difficult task

The way political events that have unfolded within the Congress during the last few years are clear signals of a grave...

31 July 2020 5:54 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi (AFP)

Aakar Patel | What's this govt good at, except announcements?

In the six months of this year, over 200 people have already been killed in violence in Kashmir

30 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

US President Donald Trump and Chinas President Xi Jinping (AFP)

Sunanda K Datta Ray | As US, China spar; India needs to fend for...

India must consider its own long-term geopolitical imperatives more than American overtures

29 July 2020 4:51 PM IST

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Claude Arpi | How Xi Jinping failed to learn the basics from Tzu's Art...

It's not that the new Great Helmsman hasn't received military training

28 July 2020 5:54 PM IST

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot leaves from a hotel, in Jaipur, Saturday. PTI Photo

Waqyanawis | Sibal, Singhvi, Randeep, Tankha who's to blame for...

In-house legal eagles are engaged in a full-fledged blame game over the Rajasthan fiasco

26 July 2020 6:49 PM IST

There are numerous cases of persons themselves not being aware that they have mild symptoms. PTI Photo

Nilofar Suhrawardy | COVID-19, the new excuse to other' your neighbour

Covid-19 has exposed the harsher face of another reality, the anti-poor bias and the invisibilising of the poor

26 July 2020 6:05 PM IST

One stoically reads about the saddest tales of grit, survival, defeat and loss during these terrible times of unprecedented suffering across the world. PTI Photo

Shobhaa De | Drastic survival steps to live through COVID times

With no signs of abatement, most of us are now resigned to a bleak future with dark clouds on the horizon

25 July 2020 6:43 PM IST

The Islamist attacks in India were, in all instances, politically motivated spreading terror in the name of a neighbouring state. AFP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | Is Islamism' unjustified? It is, but so is women'

The objection is that the terms associate mass murder with Islam and that gives rise to Islamophobia and racism

25 July 2020 5:44 PM IST

: Workers stitch personal protective equipment (PPE) suits at a private manufacturing unit during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Vijayawada. PTI Photo

Dev 360 | A quality challenge for Atma Nirbhar Bharat

Atmanirbharta and Make in India must meet the quality challenge at home as well as abroad

24 July 2020 1:54 AM IST

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan keep a watch on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway ahead of the start of annual Amarnath Yatra, near Jammu. PTI Photo

Dilli ka Babu | IAS officer from Bihar first to get domicile rights to...

Navin Kumar Choudhary, a senior IAS officer from Bihar, has become the first bureaucrat to get domicile rights in the...

22 July 2020 6:38 PM IST