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Sanjiwan Sahni | India requires key structural changes in way it is...

There is enormous management literature and practice which highlights the need of decentralisation for success

6 Jan 2021 7:09 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi with then Vice President Joe Biden

K.C. Singh | Challenges for Modi as world faces Biden era

Thus, like the rest of the world, India is now running to cover the exposed ground as the sun sets on the Trump...

6 Jan 2021 6:57 AM IST

It has obviously not been a bad year for China: Hua Chunying, its foreign ministry spokesperson, described 2020 as a fantastic year It has obviously not been a bad year for China: Hua Chunying, its foreign ministry spokesperson, described 2020 as a fantastic year (Image:AP)

Claude Arpi | Will 2021 be China's & Xi's annus horribilis?

Has Beijing succeeded in intimidating India with its brazen info warfare?

5 Jan 2021 4:54 AM IST

Governments own data shows that Indians were earning and eating less in 2018 than they were in 2012 (Image:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Fragile Index shows India is headed into a scary future

India's economic growth has slowed, declining to its lowest nominal level since 1978

5 Jan 2021 4:25 AM IST

Assessing the situation in J&K and predicting anything for the period beyond has to take into consideration a number of domains. Each of these can be a spoiler, while success is only gained by the cumulative whole achieved by them (Representational Image:AP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | As politics intensifies in J&K, ensure its...

What have the DDC elections really achieved? They have created hope and an opportunity for political empowerment at the...

4 Jan 2021 4:59 AM IST

It was a long complicated Bill but after four-and-a-half years of bickering and three Prime Ministers, Parliament approved the Bill by 11 pm. Then the Queen, as Head of State, signed it near midnight and the UK had legally approved of Brexit (Representational Image: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | UK's freedom' at midnight; Queen's NY honours go to 89...

2020 had one last blow to deliver. Partly responsible was the super-super spreader mutation of Covid-19

4 Jan 2021 4:32 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | Gangsters, gurus and other political spirits

There are four steps with which you deal with opposition: saama, daana, bheda, and danda

3 Jan 2021 4:24 AM IST

Manish Tewari | Is institutional collapse this decade's new story?

The first crisis came with the imposition of internal Emergency on the 25th of June 1975

3 Jan 2021 4:06 AM IST

As the saying goes, Britannia may have ruled the waves and now it has disastrously decided to waive the rules (Representational Image: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | At last, Britain is free of EU Now see who'll make it...

The EU was the insurance and safeguard against the global dominance of the American and Chinese hegemonies

2 Jan 2021 12:15 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After horrors of 2020, is 2021 the year of...

Out-of-season foods have become scarce on supermarket shelves as labour is disrupted and crops are at risk of rotting in...

2 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

Sunanda K Datta Ray | Hope in the new dawn after ravages of 2020?

India's rich became richer amidst the pain and penury, death and disease that marked 2020 as a year of suffering

1 Jan 2021 4:18 AM IST

2021: A magical bridge across troubled waters

The enhanced vaccine cover will, we hope, diminish social and economic disruptions.

31 Dec 2020 4:43 AM IST