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PM Modi inaugurates first ever optical fibre cable project for Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (PTI Photo)

Can CMs help India set up political alternative?

The current wisdom, and most opinion polls, indicate that the PM's popularity is overwhelming

14 Oct 2020 10:04 PM IST

Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane and Harsh V Shringla, Foreign Secretary along with Saurabh Kumar called on State Counsellor H.E. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. (Via Indian Embassy in Myanmar)

Sunanda K Datta Ray | Tackle Xi in Myanmar but don't forget the...

The electoral outcome is bound to leave a heavy imprint on Myanmar's place on the chequerboard of Asia's power politics

12 Oct 2020 11:21 PM IST

Indias services activity collapses as coronavirus palayses global economy. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | If you do not admit there's a crisis, you can't solve...

The problem is a major one, and it affects not just the Prime Minister but hundreds of millions of people across the...

12 Oct 2020 10:55 PM IST

A pedestrian walks past a poster of a person wearing a face covering, in the high street in west London. AFP photo

Ill, Boris had a harder time; virus blow to James Bond

The only constant is that like the scientists, the government is also at a loss

12 Oct 2020 3:58 PM IST

Farmers light candles in support of the Haryana farmers organisations as they announced to protests against three farm laws on the outskirts of Amritsar. PTI photo

Manish Tewari | How farm laws might hurt national security

After the 1965 war the MSP regime and public procurement were introduced in 1966-67 for wheat and later expanded to...

12 Oct 2020 3:22 PM IST

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson maintains a minutes silence to honour the frontline workers who lost their lives in the coronavirus outbreak. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Will India too leave divided histories', like US &...

The mass support, diverse and white for BLM, indicates that Britain too wants to leave divided histories behind.

11 Oct 2020 8:52 AM IST

Indias Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (lower L), Japans Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (lower R), Japans Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (centre R), Australias Foreign Minister Marise Payne (centre L) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (top L) attend a Quad Indo-Pacific meeting at the prime ministers office in Tokyo. AP Photo

K.C.Singh | Can Quad' grow into a force that China fears?

This week's Quad meeting was timely also because Japan had a change of leadership, with the ailing Abe passing the baton...

9 Oct 2020 4:05 PM IST

Students during a protest rally over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly gang-raped two weeks ago in Hathras. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hathras: Yogi government's offensive...

The charges against the protesters include conspiracy, treason and abetting enmity between communities and castes

7 Oct 2020 6:13 PM IST

: RJD leaders Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav leave after the grand alliance press conference ahead of the Bihar Assembly Elections, in Patna. PTI Photo

Anita Katyal | Tejashwi, Chirag play long game; Hathras wakes up...

Reports say Paswan and Yadav have been in touch with poll strategist Prashant Kishor who has told them that they should...

5 Oct 2020 8:44 PM IST

ife-size posters of BJP leaders displayed at party office ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, in Patna. PTI Photo

Waqyanawis | Hope alive for those shown the door in BJP reshuffle

The November 10 verdict is keenly awaited when results of these by-polls would be declared along with the Bihar Assembly...

4 Oct 2020 6:46 PM IST

A television journalist reports from the spot where the 19-year-old woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by four men, was cremated on the outskirts of Bool Garhi village in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh. AP Photo

Pavan K Varma | Napping media awakes, puts Yogi Adityanath on the spot

Thanks to the media, most of them brave young women, the entire nation was sickened by the pitiless and high-handed...

4 Oct 2020 6:28 PM IST

Picture credits: Stephen Handley

Shreya Sen-Handley | A Kolkata Kumroween' & other COVID sacrifices

There can be no Kumroween this year. No festivities of any sort for us in Kolkata

4 Oct 2020 6:23 PM IST