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Karan Thapar | Contempt of court': A relook may be needed

Many will ask whether judges need to accept satire and criticism with good gracerather than seek protection of the law...

27 Nov 2020 5:47 AM IST

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi (Photo: ANI)

Saeed Naqvi | Does a liberal' Muslim leader have a future in India's...

The enigma of Asaduddin Owaisi acquires new salience after his success in Bihar

27 Nov 2020 4:32 AM IST

Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay. (Photo: AP)

Claude Arpi | Use Tibet links, counter China in the Himalayas

Though the Indian government never wanted to be politically involved with Tibet, the age-old ties have remained alive

26 Nov 2020 5:20 AM IST

All the hopes pinned on Prime Minister Modis AtmaNirbhar Bharat and Make in India drives would have been eviscerated had we been in RCEP.

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | RECP: Why India must be firm on staying out

What India has done about the RCEP is perfect. It couldn't be otherwise

26 Nov 2020 4:29 AM IST

Union minister Nitin Gadkari. (PTI Photo)

Dilip Cherian | Who's afraid of Nitin Gadkari?

It is indeed rare for the political executive to haul up the bureaucracy in the manner that Gadkari did

25 Nov 2020 2:02 AM IST

$US President Donald Trump delivers an update on \Operation Warp Speed\ in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP)$ Opinion

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | If Trumpism' outlives Trump, America loses

During the last four years the United States suffered what former President Barack Obama calls 'truth decay'

25 Nov 2020 1:59 AM IST

An Indian nationals returns to India after being stranded due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus, at the India Pakistan-Wagah Border Post, some 35 km from Amritsar on November 23, 2020. (AFP)

Aakar Patel | From testing to travel, India's Covid handling process...

A report from Bloomberg this week said that questionable testing in India could be the reason why our Covid-19 numbers...

24 Nov 2020 12:01 AM IST

All the hopes pinned on Prime Minister Modis AtmaNirbhar Bharat and Make in India drives would have been eviscerated had we been in RCEP.

Sreeram Chaulia | Beyond the RCEP: India matters in Indo-Pacific

Since the signing of the RCEP agreement, criticism of India for sitting out the mega free trade pact has arisen in some...

23 Nov 2020 11:54 PM IST

Kishwar Desai | Anti-Semitism is why Meghnad quit; all hope for...

On the personal front, it was quite a tumultuous week for us, as my husband, Meghnad Desai, left the Labour Party after...

22 Nov 2020 9:07 PM IST

A group of security guards walk past a billboard for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | Theatres of the New Cold War

The next theatre of the Cold War would be Africa where the Chinese have invested resources much before the formal...

22 Nov 2020 8:48 PM IST

A health worker wearing PPE kit collects sample from a girl for COVID-19 test, at a Childrens Home in New Delhi, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. (PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Get priorities straight in time of a pandemic

Amid the deaths, disease, debt and despair, guess what some state governments in India are concerned about?

22 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

Army sets up upgraded living facilities for troops in eastern Ladakh. (PTI)

Syed Ata Hasnain | China's Ladakh chimera: India needs to stand firm

A few plain facts need to be kept in mind when examining the current situation

21 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST