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For India, it may be the worst of times, despite the dubious, so-called retreat from Galwan . PTI Photo

Saikat Datta | Losing face to the Chinese

The ongoing disengagement is a setback to India's strategic interests

9 July 2020 10:52 PM IST

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Dilli ka Babu | Railways relooks at its spending

Apparently, the traffic earnings of the railways dropped by 58 per cent at the end of May as compared to the...

9 July 2020 8:18 PM IST

China accuses India of crossing boundary line in Galwan Valley. (AFP Photo)

Skand Tayal | Asean resists bullying by China in SCS

China's pre-meditated aggression all around its neighbourhood is a matter of deep concern

8 July 2020 5:13 PM IST

In this file photo dated Thursday, June 12, 2008, of Syed Ali Shah Geelani waves at a crowd, in Srinagar. Geelani, the lifetime chairman of the pro-Pakistan Hurriyat Conference, made a surprise announcement of completely dissociating himself from the 16-party amalgam. PTI Photo

Anand K. Sahay | Geelani's exit hints to a possible shift in Kashmir...

The Mirwaiz and Geelani factions of the Hurriyat had no popular leaders in their ranks

8 July 2020 4:49 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping (AFP)

Manish Tewari | Study Ancient China to learn to tackle Beijing

In 1839, China declared war on drugs by impounding over 1,000 tons of opium from British dealers in Canton (modern...

7 July 2020 6:07 PM IST

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Aakar Patel | Indians must unite to face a huge threat to our nation

When the disease spreads rapidly in places without urban healthcare, what will come is not difficult to imagine

7 July 2020 5:50 PM IST

Of course China and India are not the only perpetrators, or even the worst. Historically the European nations have displayed an enormous appetite for appropriation. PTI Photo

Shreya Sen-Handley | Is nationality fluid, are borders futile?

What are borders but human constructs, appealing to our basest instincts cruelty and greed?

6 July 2020 7:05 PM IST

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Kishwar Desai | Boris toils for a slimmer nation; will Ghislaine sing...

July 4 was our freedom day though the previous weekend, too, people broke free and thronged every beach or park they...

6 July 2020 6:51 PM IST

More drama and trouble for the Congress is expected in the coming months

Waqyanawis | New ASG in town may spell trouble for Congressmen

Hours before Modi's visit, the defence minister called off his tour to Ladakh where Chinese forces have adopted an...

6 July 2020 6:17 PM IST

The political bureau, made up of reporters who would hang around Lutyens corridors, had a separate enclosure all to themselves

Shreevatsa Nevatia | Teamwork, the ethic essential to journalists

The lure of bylines and envy of crime reporters can make you forget that journalism is first a collective enterprise

6 July 2020 6:00 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to a forward location in Nimu in Ladakh. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The politics of Modi's Galwan, COVID...

It has become clear by now that Modi is uncomfortable with the nitty-gritty, and with details

4 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

Protesters during a Justice for Shukri Abdi demonstration, to support the family in their pursuit of justice, in central London. AFP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | In a crisis, is Boris pushing the coconuts' forward?

The word coconut' is used to abuse people who are deemed to be brown outside and white inside'

4 July 2020 2:18 AM IST