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Voters stand in queues to cast their votes at a polling station during the third phase of Bihar Assembly Elections, at Mahua in Vaishali district, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (PTI Photo)

Sanjiwan Sahni | Forum of CMs: An idea whose time has come'

This would be a democratic forum as all members would be representatives chosen on the basis of their success in the...

13 Nov 2020 10:40 AM IST

Cover of Wajahat Habibullahs recent book My Years with Rajiv. (Twitter/@WestlandBooks)

Karan Thapar | New insights on Rajiv, but questions remain

Biographies written by friends is likely to gloss over incidents that could embarrass the subject, like Habibullah's 'My...

13 Nov 2020 10:23 AM IST

Voters stand in queues to cast their votes at a polling station during the third phase of Bihar Assembly Elections, at Mahua in Vaishali district, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. (PTI Photo)

No real winner in Bihar; Nitish, Tejashwi lose out

The 2020 Bihar Assembly election has ended without any real winners

12 Nov 2020 8:12 PM IST

BJP workers celebrate Dubbak bypoll win

Dubbaka nailbiter may have changed Telangana politics

Today, the TRS will rue that it precipitated the decline and uprooting of several parties in the state

12 Nov 2020 7:26 PM IST

President Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to supporters as he departs after playing golf at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling Va., Sunday Nov. 8, 2020. (AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why presidential system might not suit India...

Many world leaders secretly aspire to the methods and priorities that made Trump such a sinister authoritarian figure of...

11 Nov 2020 11:46 AM IST

President-elect Joe Biden speaks Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. (AP)

Vishnu Prakash | India-US ties might be stronger under Biden

The question that is uppermost in the minds of most Indians is about Biden's disposition towards India and China

11 Nov 2020 11:30 AM IST

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot gestures to the media after a meeting with the party MLAs at his residence in Jaipur. PTI

Dilip Cherian | Centre denies Gehlot his chosen babu

Until the last working day of outgoing chief secretary Rajeev Swarup, the Gehlot government hoped to push for a tenure...

11 Nov 2020 11:19 AM IST

People exercise in Green Park in central London on November 8, 2020 during a second national lockdown designed to contain soaring infections of the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | London Diary

Locked down yet again, UK knows the rules but likes them less and less

9 Nov 2020 11:04 AM IST

Such a ban, if implemented, could hit the ruling Communist Party from the highest levels down to its rank-and-file and would be certain to draw retaliation against Americans who travel to China. (Representational Image:AFP)

Manish Tewari | The new Cold War

The Cold War with China will encompass all dimensions economic, military, cyber, space, cultural and civilisational

9 Nov 2020 10:47 AM IST

A boy plays cricket with a hockey stick as black clouds form over Prabhadevi beach in Mumbai. PTI photo

Shashi Warrier | The son also rises

Back to that VIP. It's the son's birthday today, and he's having a party I'll get my scotch there.

8 Nov 2020 4:26 AM IST

While reiterating their commitment to a free, open, inclusive, peaceful, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region , the two countries also committed to a common vision for the India-US Major Defence Partnership (MDP) to expand all aspects of their security and defence cooperation .

Amid new dawn in the US, India may now have to work differently

Most Indians may not know that in April India was earmarked as a Country of Particular Concern by the USCIRF

8 Nov 2020 4:21 AM IST

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden arrives with his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris. (AP)

Biden takes high road, Trumpism is still alive

A Biden presidency means both continuity and change

8 Nov 2020 4:14 AM IST