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A banner erected by the Indian Army stands on a ridge around the Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh. India and China are engaged in a standoff around the lake in Ladakh. (AP)

Delineate and demarcate the LAC to end China mess

Tuesday, October 20, marks 58 years to the day the Chinese launched their synchronised and coordinated attack in Ladakh,...

20 Oct 2020 1:50 AM IST

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh to overtake India? PR can't fix all our problems

This week has come news that in the current financial year, Bangladesh will overtake India in terms of per capita...

20 Oct 2020 1:35 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Right) with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. (PTI)

Dev 360 | India must learn from others, shed its hubris

Bangladesh has invested in strengthening its human capital, especially women, and this is paying off also in economic...

19 Oct 2020 10:40 AM IST

Students wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus wait to submit their national scholarship portal registration forms at a Government Girls School in Amritsar on October 15, 2020. (AFP)

Palash Deb | Evolve the right parameters to judge varsities

Some of the criticism against Indian universities seems misplaced if we consider the complexities of global university...

19 Oct 2020 10:29 AM IST

In popular culture, the male huddle has been among the most paeanized of phenomena. They even have a term for it: bromance, a genre in films even more popular than the dreaded rom-com. (Representational Image: AFP)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | #RealMenDon'tHuddle

Every horror perpetrated on every woman is born out of what we have come to accept as the male huddle, including rape.

18 Oct 2020 9:57 AM IST

Plurals Party President Pushpam Priya Choudhary flashes the victory sign after filing nomination from the Bankipur constituency, ahead of Bihar assembly polls, in Patna, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. (PTI)

Anita Katyal | In patriarchal Bihar, women finally come into their own

Women have clearly come into their own in Bihar's patriarchal society as several politicians have opted to promote their...

18 Oct 2020 9:49 AM IST

BJP supporters celebrate as early trends show the partys win in the last Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls, at the party office in Lucknow. (PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Muslims in BJP have an express duty: Stem hate

Do the luminaries in the BJP from the Muslim community speak out against the malicious denigration of their faith

18 Oct 2020 9:38 AM IST

The Egyptian queen is be played by Gal Gadot, an Israeli star of Greek lineage. Her ethnicity has caused what the clich© appropriately calls a Twitter storm. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Multi-ethnic casting rows nothing new, just look back

Last week a new film on Cleopatra was announced and the Egyptian queen is to be played by Gal Gadot, leading to a...

17 Oct 2020 9:54 AM IST

Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan. (PTI File)

Shobhaa De | Bollywood joins forces, but for what exactly?

While every industry is well within its rights to seek redressal, it is important to ask what exactly has miffed...

17 Oct 2020 9:39 AM IST

Army vehicles move towards eastern Ladakh amid the prolonged India-China stand off, in Leh. (PTI)

Skand Tayal | India weighs options as it faces Chinese intransigence

The seventh round of the corps commander-level talks between India and China has not led to any notable advance on the...

16 Oct 2020 10:06 AM IST

Videograb from the controversial Tanishq ad.

Karan Thapar | The beauty of oneness': Has today's India lost it?

The advertisement trolls excoriated celebrated the love of a Muslim mother-in-law for her Hindu daughter-in-law

16 Oct 2020 9:51 AM IST

Parliamentarians participate in a debate in the Lok Sabha today. (PTI)

Shruti Lakhtakia |A new mantra? Seek, and you shall find; ask, it will...

The value of Question Hour, as an institution that offers the opportunity to question the government and to demand...

15 Oct 2020 7:26 PM IST