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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event to name his economic team at the Queen Theater on December 1 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Indranil Banerjie | Are America's days over as world's moral arbiter?

The bitter and highly polarised November 2020 election was watched with disbelief and distaste across the world

2 Dec 2020 7:23 AM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla during the first National Implementation Committee meeting on 75 years of Independence, in New Delhi on November 25, (PTI /Shahbaz Khan)

Aakar Patel | Looking at the future in fear as economy goes into...

India's economy has contracted for six months since Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for the harshest lockdown in the...

1 Dec 2020 10:07 AM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will our farmers force arrogant govt to yield?

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will our farmers force arrogant govt to...

The hardnosed men and women of the soil are not going to be overwhelmed by the PM's rhetoric and sweet talk

1 Dec 2020 9:33 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the G20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, Russia, on November 2. (Photo by Alexey NIKOLSKY / Sputnik / AFP)

Skand Tayal | Are virtual' summits of any real use?

Brics summits are rarely noticed by any international observer outside those from the member countries

30 Nov 2020 11:00 AM IST

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with Prime Minister of UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum during a meeting, in Dubai. (PTI)

K C Singh | New Delhi tries to reset its ties with neighbours

Multiple events with geopolitical impact are compelling diplomats to scurry for meetings

30 Nov 2020 10:06 AM IST

Home Minister Amit Shah on his way to visit Bhagyalakshmi Ammavari Temple, in Hyderabad. (PTI)

Sriram Karri | Why has the GHMC campaign missed the context?

Whoever wins, we will most likely have a dummy mayor, a disappointing candidate

30 Nov 2020 9:26 AM IST

In this file photo dated May 6, 2016, Congress President Sonia Gandhi talks with party leader Ahmed Patel as Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Janardhan Dwivedi look on during the Save Democracy rally at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. (PTI)

Anita Katyal | Despite defeat, Rahul vac was on track; Patel's...

Among the various responsibilities entrusted to the Patel was to keep his boss out of the line of fire

29 Nov 2020 10:01 AM IST

Farmers who came from Punjab and Haryana to protest against the new Farmers Law reached at Burari ground raising slogans to withdraw the anti-farmers law, in New Delhi on Saturday, 28 Nov 2020. (DC Image: D Kamraj)

Pavan K. Varma | At best, farm laws pass reform buck to big biz

The question is not that agricultural commerce needs to be opened up, but what is going to replace it

29 Nov 2020 9:53 AM IST

Sanitation employee adjust the tyres for distance maintenance before starting Swab tests due to COVID0-19 at Bishop Grassi school in Vijayawada. (DC Image:Narayana Rao)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Different, and same: Pandemic musings

The ongoing pandemic's most telling debris other than heightened neurosis and germaphobia are the ubiquitous masks

29 Nov 2020 9:45 AM IST

Are we pinning unrealistic hopes on the vaccine saving humanity? (Representational Image:AP)

Shobhaa De | High hopes over vaccine: Are we being unrealistic?

Here's my prediction for what it is worth: our great PM will be the first, high-profile citizen to take the vaccine

28 Nov 2020 5:19 AM IST

Screengrab from A Suitable Boy. (Twitter)

Farrukh Dhondy | Row over a kiss: It's puritanism, not a breach of...

There is no puritan tradition in Hinduism which would forbid the depiction of two lovers kissing outside a KFC shop or a...

28 Nov 2020 5:11 AM IST

The BJP is trying to hard sell itself for the GHMC elections by pressing its top guns like Union home minister Amit Shah, BJP president J.P. Nadda and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, besides a slew of union ministers, into service with an eye first on occupying the opposition space, and then to take a moonshot. (DC Image: R.Pavan)

A Saye Sekhar | BJP, TRS play politics of alternatives

A civic body poll drawing national attention is apparently a first-of-its-kind phenomenon in India

27 Nov 2020 8:31 AM IST