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Jaswant Singh was new to diplomacy on the world stage but he proved more than equal to the task. PTI Photo

Anand K. Sahay | Jaswant Singh, a gentleman politician and an astute...

Contemplating the life he lived after he is gone, it is hard to see him in any role other than that of a politician at...

2 Oct 2020 5:32 PM IST

Collectors being checked for temperature at the Pragati Bhavan. (PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Who will reform our huge army of babus?

Narendra Modi said he would restructure the bureaucracy but nothing has been heard of it since then

29 Sept 2020 3:17 PM IST

Serum Institute of India said that trials of AstraZeneca Plcs COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the country is ongoing and has not faced any issues. (Representative Image)

Aakar Patel | Several NGOs trying to uplift India might be forced to...

Today India invites foreign investment in arms and ammunition but it restricts investment in health, education and...

29 Sept 2020 12:39 PM IST

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping. (ANI file photo)

Manish Tewari | The love that wasn't at Wuhan and Mamallapuram

The present confrontation in Ladakh shows that China deceived India by making New Delhi complacent

27 Sept 2020 8:18 PM IST

Senior Congress MP Ghulam Nabi Azad and other opposition lawmakers protest against the farm and labour bills at Parliament House in New Delhi. (PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | Whenever cornered, BJP says 'Eulalie' to opposition...

That's how the ruling party gets to enjoy so much legislative and executive leverage

27 Sept 2020 7:17 PM IST

AAP MP Sanjay Singh stages a protest over his suspension from the remaining monsoon session of Parliament over the ruckus created in the Rajya Sabha. (PTI)

Anand K Sahay | Can fury over farm bills trigger a wider stir?

It is clear as day that continuance of MSP runs against the logic of the two laws cleared by Parliament

27 Sept 2020 3:50 PM IST

A UN handout photo shows delegates attending the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. (AFP)

Covid shadow at UN-75: Some lessons for India

Covid-19's shadow looms over the 75th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly

27 Sept 2020 3:05 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation during the 74th Independence Day celebrations, at Red Fort in New Delhi, Saturday. (PTI)

Waqyanawis | Modi's beard, Nirmala's bad luck, Azad's final speech

Ghulam Nabi Azad said that if the winter session is postponed he might not be back in the Rajya Sabha

27 Sept 2020 1:31 PM IST

Migrant workers along with their family members walk to their villages, due to no means of transport, during the nationwide lockdown, near Anand Vihar railway station in New Delhi (PTI)

Dev 360 | 'No data is not good enough

On matters of life and death, such as the coronavirus pandemic, it is important that data be in the public domain

25 Sept 2020 9:48 PM IST

Britains prime minister Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons in London on September 23, 2020. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Now an amnesty for war crimes, and a law that allows...

Britain arms itself with laws that enable practices that were once the preserve of openly savage savage regimes

25 Sept 2020 7:49 PM IST

Farmers shout slogans as they march to protest against the Union governments agriculture reforms in Amritsar. (AFP)

Parsa | What is PM Modi afraid of?

The prime minister should have used the debate on farm bills to underscore their virtues

24 Sept 2020 9:53 PM IST

Earlier on Wednesday, the Indian Air Force, Army and the civil administration of Arunachal Pradesh started a massive operation to reach the crash site. (Photo: ANI)

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Are we ready for give & take' with China at LAC?

Identifying the border in Arunachal is difficult because the British left large stretches of it without delineation or...

24 Sept 2020 12:22 PM IST