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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

The Central Vista project design (Image: HCP Designs)

Shobhaa De | A monument to a monumental ego

Heritage and history need to be respected, even by those determined to rewrite both

19 Sept 2020 5:32 PM IST

Protesters throw a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour, during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in Bristol, England. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | The politics of erasing Gunga Din

The Black Lives Matter upheaval has resulted in this reappraisal of history

19 Sept 2020 4:41 PM IST

: Protesters throw stones on security personnel after an encounter with militants, at Batamaloo in Srinagar. PTI Photo

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmiris respond to Centre with Gupkar II'

Its defining feature can be summed by a phrase in it: nothing about us without us

18 Sept 2020 6:37 PM IST

BJP wrote a letter to home minister Anil Deshmukh urging him to roll out a more aggressive action plan to protect Mumbai police. (PTI Photo)

Dilli ka Babu | 7 former DGPs jump in to defend Mumbai police

Their petition to Bombay High Court says there are sinister designs behind the campaign

17 Sept 2020 7:56 PM IST

The UAPA and other special laws like CSPSA are called black laws because the crimes they seek to cover could be dealt with under IPC and because these laws give special, unaccountable power to the police. PTI Photo

Bela Bhatia | Lockdown for some, lockup for others

More humane provisions are needed for prisoners, including political prisoners and those charged under special laws

16 Sept 2020 5:39 PM IST

File image of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. (ANI)

Aakar Patel | Jaishankar's prescriptions are simplistic, just excuses

The assumption Jaishankar makes about liberalisation automatically producing economic growth is false

15 Sept 2020 5:09 PM IST

Despite having two often widely overlapping LACs, Indian and Chinese forces had arrived at a unique modus vivendi since 1962 which enabled each side to patrol up to its perception of the LAC without confrontation. PTI Photo

Mohan Guruswamy | Mediation vital on LAC, Ladakh disengagement

The problem is that India and China never agreed on where the LAC was, as the perceptions of what each side controlled ...

15 Sept 2020 4:48 PM IST