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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav addresses during the second leg of campaign for Bihar assembly polls, in Samastipur district, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. (PTI)

Shobhaa De | Battle for Bihar: Super flop or a blockbuster?

It's time for Battle cry Bihar ! And this stellar star cast can take the pants off just about any actor from Bollywood

31 Oct 2020 9:48 AM IST

Tata Sons interim chairman Ratan Tata

Farrukh Dhondy | Communist MP in Britain was Tata's cousin, Gandhi's...

The book is called Comrade Sak and is written by Mark Wadsworth, a black British writer with Caribbean roots

31 Oct 2020 9:42 AM IST

Arun Shourie is former BJP member and was Cabinet minister during Atal Bihari Vajpayees rule. (Photo: PTI)

Karan Thapar | Death talk: Euthanasia tales amid Covid times

The question this mesmerising account raises is did Arun's father, HD Shourie commit euthanasia?

30 Oct 2020 9:52 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, speaks during fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee in Beijing on Oct 29, 2020.(AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Stop Dragon's free ride, don't let it exploit...

The Chinese Communist Party's mission to humiliate India has become more diabolical by the day

30 Oct 2020 9:46 AM IST

CM Manohar Lal Khattar being greeted by then Chief Secretary D.S. Dhesi in 2019. (Twitter/@cmohry)

Dilip Cherian | Dhesi, Khattar's favourite, gets a second innings

It is likely that Dhesi will become another power centre in the CMO, with all important files meant for Khattar being...

29 Oct 2020 9:58 AM IST

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, second right, gestures towards U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second left, and Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, left, with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, right, standing beside him, ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020.(AP)

K.C. Singh | As US embrace deepens, watch for pitfalls ahead

Significantly, they were meeting just a week before Americans go to the polls to elect the President on November 3

29 Oct 2020 9:04 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)

Ashwani Kumar | Ensuring dignity for all, respect for the law, still a...

Questions about the Supreme Court's vacillation and seeming incapacity to enforce its judgments, have diminished...

28 Oct 2020 9:34 AM IST

The tapes of purported conversations between former Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and Biden when Biden was vice president during the Obama administration were flagged in a US intelligence assessment earlier this month warning of Russian interference in the upcoming election, and specifically efforts to denigrate Biden. (Photo | AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Biden or Trump: Who's win is better for India?

This time, too, it might be a mistake to go too much by appearances or the experiences of other parties with different...

28 Oct 2020 9:27 AM IST

Election Commission of India (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | Draw lessons from US, make voting in India better and...

It must be asked if we cannot further reform the process and also learn from practices that other nations follow that...

27 Oct 2020 6:40 PM IST

EAM S. Jaishankar with US secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting in Tokyo. PTI photo

Manish Tewari | Talk ties mindfully, do not squander options

With the People's Liberation Army of China menacing India's northern borders it is quite natural for India to look for...

27 Oct 2020 5:47 PM IST

A devotee puts a mask on the face of a Goddess Durga idol to aware people against COVID-19, at a community puja pandal, in Prayagraj. (PTI)

Kushal Gulab | A woke Navratri, and a Happy Dussehra

So far, dear reader, this whole puja season I have not had to use my ear plugs at all

26 Oct 2020 11:36 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) President Nitish Kumar during an election rally, in Sasaram. (PTI)

Anand K Sahay | Far & Near

Will the BJP use Nitish to get own CM in Patna?

26 Oct 2020 11:27 AM IST