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File photo of prime minister Narendra Modi addressing BJP MPs.

Pavan K Varma | A Parliament without questions is no democracy

The decision to do away with Question Hour indicates that the government has no answers

6 Sept 2020 6:05 PM IST

Shobhaa De | Chana Kisney Khaaya Rasode Mein Kaun Tha?

Shobhaa De | Chana Kisney Khaaya Rasode Mein Kaun Tha?

This is the aftereffect of the GDP debacle, which has set India back by a staggering 24 per cent

5 Sept 2020 6:00 PM IST

Adele at the 59th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Racist and tribalist: The woke phobia for cultural...

The use of the cultures, inventions, science, of the West by other cultures isn't labelled expropriation'

5 Sept 2020 1:09 AM IST

A united Congress has a chance to strengthen its ranking; divided, the futures of all party members are at stake

Nilofar Suhrawardy | Bank on Gandhis, test non-Gandhis, start early...

The Congress is not a regional party and it is expected to give greater importance to a democratic process for electing...

4 Sept 2020 5:52 PM IST

A student undergoes thermal screening as she arrives to appear in JEE Main examination, at a center in Kozhikode. PTI Photo

Dev 360 | In any crisis, take care of the most vulnerable

Covid-19 has not only revealed vulnerabilities and inequalities in the education systems across the world, it has made...

4 Sept 2020 5:28 PM IST

Rahat Indori was five years old when the much loved poet Majaz died of a stroke after he was found on the freezing terrace of a country liquor shop in Lucknows Qaisar Bagh. Photo: Twitter

Saeed Naqvi | Rahat Indori, a theme for Bollywood with built-in lyrics

What will be Rahat's place in literature?

4 Sept 2020 4:42 PM IST

The last active politician who became President before Pranab Mukherjee was Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1992. So it was not an easy going for Pranab. File Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Pranab Da's politics: Adept at managing...

Pranab showed that he was capable in dealing with the intricacies of administration without handing over levers of power...

4 Sept 2020 4:23 PM IST

Former finance secretary Rajiv Kumar takes charge as the new Election Commissioner in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Dilli Ka Babu | Rajiv Kumar in sight of CEC chair in 2024

He replaces Ashok Lavasa, who is leaving to join the Asian Development Bank as vice-president

2 Sept 2020 7:17 PM IST

In this 2014 file photo, the audience reacts during the Proms at Royal Albert Hall, London. The BBC has ditched the lyrics of Rule Britannia! for its traditional summer-ending concert amid a controversy over the songs celebration of the British Empire. (AP file photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | BBC Proms: Bosses caught between govt line and woke...

Public hoo-ha between the BBC and the prime minister over song lyrics

2 Sept 2020 12:28 AM IST

A man rests in front of closed book stalls during a day long state-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against the surge in Covid-19 coronavirus cases, in Kolkata. AFP Photo

Mohan Guruswamy | Is another global economic crisis now inevitable?

The essential problem we must confront is how to rectify a world economic system that has gone hopelessly wrong

1 Sept 2020 5:56 PM IST

WB asks Railways not to send Shramik Special trains to state till May 26 in view of Cyclone Amphan. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Unlock' rules are illogical: If flights allowed, why not...

The Indian Railways is still by and large largely shut, and has been shut since the lockdown began

1 Sept 2020 5:34 PM IST

A woman rides a scooter past an advertising board outside a closed down branch of STA Travel near Victoria Station in central London. AFP Photo

Kishwar Desai | The latest ruse to meet people; e-cycles are the new...

How London traffic will cope with bicycles as well as e-cycles remains to be seen

31 Aug 2020 5:35 PM IST