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When it comes to diet, Tseng eats little junk food and makes sure he takes a filling breakfast (Photo: Pixabay)

Shashi Warrier | JFK, yoga, and intermittent fasting

The shop that supplies most of its contents, incidentally, is the JFP, or Junk Food Paradise

13 Sept 2020 5:52 PM IST

People push social activist Swami Agnivesh while he was on the way to pay tribute to former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg in New Delhi on Friday. Agnivesh was reportedly assaulted later. (Photo: PTI)

Waqyanawis | Swami Agnivesh, who fought against BJP's Hindutva, denied...

Agnivesh had given up a career as a professor in Calcutta to be a full-time social activist. His mission was to resist...

13 Sept 2020 5:14 PM IST

An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. PTI Photo

K.C. Singh | De-escalation in Ladakh: Mixed signals after talks

China has chosen the moment well, with the world distracted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the US presidential election and...

13 Sept 2020 4:56 PM IST

Ambulances belonging to Indian army moves along with the army convoy on the Srinagar-Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar. PTI Photo

Syed Ata Hasnain | On Sino-Indian border: Skirmish, war or peace?

While jingoism will rule the airwaves under such conditions and every Indian becomes an analyst, the term war adopts a...

12 Sept 2020 6:42 PM IST

Still from the movie Agraharathil Kazhutai. Source: iffigoa.org

Saeed Naqvi | How Congress fell between two stools and I lost Lucknow

I once prided my hometown of Lucknow as the world centre for satire, wit and an elegant inter-communal irreverence

12 Sept 2020 6:23 PM IST

Britains prime minister Boris Johnson leaves after a virtual press conference at Downing Street. (AFP file photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | So, you're telling me there is no corruption in...

This British government's corruption has taken advantage of the coronavirus crisis to hand billions of pounds to their...

12 Sept 2020 3:16 PM IST

As Indias resources to protect its workers and companies is limited, the prospect gets gloomier. AFP Photo

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Throw Chinese out of India's economy; war is...

Those talking of war have no idea of the economic disaster it will inevitably inflict

11 Sept 2020 6:09 PM IST

The most draconian lockdown in the world and that too at a four-hour notice completely failed. AFP Photo

Manish Tewari | Vulnerable India faces crucial House session

With over 44 lakh cases and 75,000 deaths India now ranks second in the world, ahead of Brazil and behind the United...

11 Sept 2020 5:42 PM IST

Anita Katyal | Pro-changers' for voter lists; Anar ambition worries...

An entrepreneur by profession, Anar Patel joined the BJP a couple of years ago

9 Sept 2020 7:03 PM IST

While Chidambaram is out on bail in the INX Media corruption case being probed by the CBI, the summons was issued to the bureaucrats and other accused after the court took cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the agency last month. (Photo: Representational | ANI)

Dilli Ka Babu | Civil servants under watch for corruption

Last year, the government endorsed lists of dozens of officers of the IRS and IT services accused of corruption and...

9 Sept 2020 5:18 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Mamallapuram on Friday, ahead of their informal summit talks. (Photo: Asian Age)

V Sudarshan | Wuhan and the garden of false expectations

Is it even possible that Modiji, chowkidar examplar, was blindsided by Xi and let himself be led up the garden path?

8 Sept 2020 3:13 PM IST

It is important to understand the performance of Telangana in education. PTI Photo

G. Kishan Reddy | NEP presents Telangana with opportunity to...

This is an opportunity that the state of Telangana cannot afford to miss at any cost

7 Sept 2020 5:39 PM IST