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Manu Jaiswal | India-China clash: Trick lies in picking the battle

Manu Jaiswal | India-China clash: Trick lies in picking the battle

The armies clashed on the banks of a river

2 July 2020 6:03 PM IST

RBI Governor Urjit Patel, will announce the resolution of the MPC on its first bi-monthly monetary policy for financial year 2018-19 later in the day.

Dilli ka Babu | Urjit back at policy helm; will Rajan return next?

The government has a huge task on its hands and clearly needs to use its straitened resources for fighting the deadly...

1 July 2020 7:04 PM IST

Presumably, the company hopes to reduce the fixation with colour by dropping the fair from its product descriptions

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India's colour bar: Why fairness' touches nerve

Nandita Das, a well-known young filmmaker and actress, says even a superficial name change is a step in the right...

1 July 2020 6:16 PM IST

An Indian army truck drives along a road in Leh. AP Photo

Anand K Sahay | The situation at LAC: PM must come clean

In 2020, a military confrontation may not materialise, but the Chinese have evidently prepared for one over a long...

30 Jun 2020 4:57 PM IST

An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar

Aakar Patel | Mr PM, ignoring China's intrusion is the opposite of...

Satellite imagery confirms that the tent our men died trying to remove has now become a series of Chinese structures on...

30 Jun 2020 4:32 PM IST

Both parties, prisoners of the predictable, continue to viciously kick each other in the shin even as the Chinese kick us on the border. PTI Photo

Pavan K. Varma | Why can't Indians unite in face of China threat?

The government must come clean on what the position on the Line of Actual Control is

29 Jun 2020 4:57 PM IST

Anita Katyal | Congress, BJP fight media wars with young' Rahul fans...

The Congress tweeted its own version of a survey , showing that the majority felt Modi had lost the ability to...

29 Jun 2020 4:29 PM IST

What a life, when even a smile, once talked about emphatically as an important feature of ones personality, has almost lost its appeal. PTI Photo

Nilofar Suhrawardy | Grit on side, some Indians still smiling

It is possible that the guest workers' walk to their rural roots has prompted the poorer people settled in cities to...

28 Jun 2020 7:10 PM IST

Medical staff wearing full protective gear talk about a patient in the COVID-19 ward at the Hospital Juarez, in Mexico City. AP Photo

Veena Das | The new normal' in healthcare a myth

Many patients from low-income neighborhoods tend to first access private providers, before turning to government-run...

28 Jun 2020 6:44 PM IST

There is talk of new faces in railways and finance.

Rejig buzz in railways, finance; Mukul, Scindia and Sarma hopeful

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is said to have assured them of weighty berths

28 Jun 2020 6:31 PM IST

Health workers screen residents for COVID-19 symptoms at Dharavi, one of Asias biggest slums, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday. AP Photo

Amitabha Bhattacharya | The summer of discontent: Let's learn to live...

Would things have been better if the lockdown was announced earlier, say in late February or early March?

27 Jun 2020 6:22 PM IST

Statues of people long dead, and possibly of zero relevance to our times, should be dismissed, ignored, and removed if they have become painful reminders of something hateful in the past. PTI Photo

Shobhaa De | 150 years of Mahatma: Why are we so touchy?

In the case of Mahatma Gandhi, why is our national outrage this pronounced?

27 Jun 2020 5:41 PM IST