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Biden, a Democrat, has promised to lift the suspension on H-1B visas, saying Trumps immigration policies are cruel (Image: AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta Ray | Thoughts on democracy as Trump exits, finally

For it should never be forgotten that 74 million Americans voted for the man who now seems bent on destroying the...

19 Jan 2021 6:41 AM IST

Supreme Court made clear to the Centre on Friday that it would not pass any order on the plea seeking closure of cases against two Italian marines. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | Bolstering corporates was intent of farm laws

Farm laws are intended to give Corporate India a legal licence to muscle in on these small guys who have unequal or no...

18 Jan 2021 1:33 AM IST

Pedestrians walk on a near-deserted Westminster Bridge in central London on January 16, 2021, during the third nationwide novel coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Long lockdown defeats Britons; Spurs' shot in the arm...

We have vaccinations slowly covering the population but as of now it will be Easter before the over 50s will be covered

18 Jan 2021 12:50 AM IST

Given its abject failures on the economic front, the BJP/RSS regime in New Delhi is now pushing India towards a Hindutva nationhood, by seeking to victimise a minority for the perceived wrongs and slights of the past. (Representative Photo:AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | An important lesson from India's history for PM Modi

An intolerant religion can never be the basis of nationhood and national unity in India

17 Jan 2021 4:29 AM IST

Im not the sort of writer who spent the Pandemic lockdown carefully crafting my creative skills and honing my talent so I could write that exemplar novel, that series of high philosophy essays to understand humanity, that definitive book on the state of the nation. (Representative Photo)

Ranjona Banerji | My one true calling and how life got in the way

As an adolescent, like most others, I wrote those poems. Emotions crystallized in show-off nonsense from studying...

17 Jan 2021 4:14 AM IST

The Akalis, who have been the major political voice of the Sikhs, have not been in the forefront of the agitation now that they walked out of the government and the NDA on the very same issue.(Representational Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Why Akali Dal's voice is missing in...

It is not clear what the equation is between the Akalis and the leaders of the farmers' unions

17 Jan 2021 4:06 AM IST

This year elections are due in two states in the east -- West Bengal and Assam -- and three states/UTs in the south -- Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Its important to note that all these are now governed by different parties and no party has a government in more than one state. (Representative Photo)

Sanjay Kumar | Elections 2021: A mixed bag of hope & challenges

2021 is going to be more eventful, as five states are going to the polls in the middle of this year

16 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

The deniers of vaccination who pose a puzzle are those who have no such complete theory of the universe. What they have instead is the Internet through which the most abject nonsense is spread. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Time for all to get Covid jabs; don't listen to...

There are millions of idiots around the world who are anti-vaccers

16 Jan 2021 12:00 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Karnataka home secy shunted out for calling Safe City...

Public spats are rarely pretty and the one between these two senior IPS officers has brought out the intense rivalries...

14 Jan 2021 12:11 AM IST

A health worker shows the Covishield vaccine, after arrival of the first batch of the vaccines from the Serum Institute of India. (PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Is new normal' really a return to the old...

For a fleeting while, optimists wondered if the Covid-19 pandemic had sledgehammered some fundamental lessons into us

14 Jan 2021 12:03 AM IST

Devi Kar | Educational activism of a different kind is needed

Educators have observed to their satisfaction that many examination reforms were necessitated by the current Covid-19...

13 Jan 2021 11:22 AM IST

Aakar Patel | On Republic Day, time to reclaim our basic rights

None of the rights and liberties that the Constitution saw initially as being fundamental are present in the original...

12 Jan 2021 10:50 AM IST