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Aakar Patel | Indians must unite to face a huge threat to our nation

When the disease spreads rapidly in places without urban healthcare, what will come is not difficult to imagine

7 July 2020 5:50 PM IST

Of course China and India are not the only perpetrators, or even the worst. Historically the European nations have displayed an enormous appetite for appropriation. PTI Photo

Shreya Sen-Handley | Is nationality fluid, are borders futile?

What are borders but human constructs, appealing to our basest instincts cruelty and greed?

6 July 2020 7:05 PM IST

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Kishwar Desai | Boris toils for a slimmer nation; will Ghislaine sing...

July 4 was our freedom day though the previous weekend, too, people broke free and thronged every beach or park they...

6 July 2020 6:51 PM IST

More drama and trouble for the Congress is expected in the coming months

Waqyanawis | New ASG in town may spell trouble for Congressmen

Hours before Modi's visit, the defence minister called off his tour to Ladakh where Chinese forces have adopted an...

6 July 2020 6:17 PM IST

The political bureau, made up of reporters who would hang around Lutyens corridors, had a separate enclosure all to themselves

Shreevatsa Nevatia | Teamwork, the ethic essential to journalists

The lure of bylines and envy of crime reporters can make you forget that journalism is first a collective enterprise

6 July 2020 6:00 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to a forward location in Nimu in Ladakh. PTI Photo

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The politics of Modi's Galwan, COVID...

It has become clear by now that Modi is uncomfortable with the nitty-gritty, and with details

4 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

Protesters during a Justice for Shukri Abdi demonstration, to support the family in their pursuit of justice, in central London. AFP Photo

Farrukh Dhondy | In a crisis, is Boris pushing the coconuts' forward?

The word coconut' is used to abuse people who are deemed to be brown outside and white inside'

4 July 2020 2:18 AM IST

Manu Jaiswal | India-China clash: Trick lies in picking the battle

Manu Jaiswal | India-China clash: Trick lies in picking the battle

The armies clashed on the banks of a river

2 July 2020 6:03 PM IST

RBI Governor Urjit Patel, will announce the resolution of the MPC on its first bi-monthly monetary policy for financial year 2018-19 later in the day.

Dilli ka Babu | Urjit back at policy helm; will Rajan return next?

The government has a huge task on its hands and clearly needs to use its straitened resources for fighting the deadly...

1 July 2020 7:04 PM IST

Presumably, the company hopes to reduce the fixation with colour by dropping the fair from its product descriptions

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India's colour bar: Why fairness' touches nerve

Nandita Das, a well-known young filmmaker and actress, says even a superficial name change is a step in the right...

1 July 2020 6:16 PM IST

An Indian army truck drives along a road in Leh. AP Photo

Anand K Sahay | The situation at LAC: PM must come clean

In 2020, a military confrontation may not materialise, but the Chinese have evidently prepared for one over a long...

30 Jun 2020 4:57 PM IST

An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar

Aakar Patel | Mr PM, ignoring China's intrusion is the opposite of...

Satellite imagery confirms that the tent our men died trying to remove has now become a series of Chinese structures on...

30 Jun 2020 4:32 PM IST