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Taking on Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his promise to implement the seventh pay commission for West Bengal government employees, Banerjee questioned the rise in petrol, diesel and cooking gas prices. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata calls herself big donkey for not recognising true face of...

The West Bengal chief minister said she will get the allegations investigated once she is voted to power

22 March 2021 12:31 AM IST

China has for long been a factor in relations between India and the United States. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | India and US: It's still the economy, stupid

Securing US support for India's economic rise is as important for India as strengthening its defence capabilities

21 March 2021 11:31 PM IST

A health worker collects swab sample from a person for COVID-19 test, near Kashmere Gate in New Delhi. (PTI)

COVID-19: India records highest single-day spike this year with 43,846...

Registering an increase for the 11th day in a row, the total active caseload has increased to 3,09,087

21 March 2021 11:33 AM IST

The battle between the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamul Congress and its main challenger, the BJP, is intensifying with both sides pulling no punches in showing the other one down. (Photo: PTI)

Anita Katyal | Mithun made to wait after biting bait; Mamata's game of...

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has been proactive in denying access to journalists to Parliament

21 March 2021 4:36 AM IST

One asked me to look up the Internet for recipes, the other explained how to cook the kachnar.

Ranjona Banerji | What cooking teaches, how tastes are learned

I really learnt how to cook by experimentation. And by eating. To replicate tastes and memories

21 March 2021 4:27 AM IST

We have new custodians of morality who are easily outraged by anything that does not fit into their conservative, upper-caste, patriarchal and outdated notions of correct behaviour. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan Varma | Let it rip! Stop us turning into the Republic of Hurt

A highly unwarranted subjectivity driven by medieval cultural notions and political hubris is threatening creative...

21 March 2021 4:00 AM IST

Austin said that the US reaffirmed its commitment to a comprehensive and forward-looking defence partnership with India as a central pillar of its approach to the region. (Photo: PTI)

Didn't see India, China war: US

Austin pointed out that US President Joe Biden has said that human rights and rule of law are important to the United...

21 March 2021 1:55 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Something rotten Why is Maha in such a mess?

The political golmal going on in Mumbai reads like a tawdry, hastily written script of a C-grade 1970s' Bollywood flop

20 March 2021 11:50 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | For UK, Sarah Everard killing a wake-up call like...

To Britain the murder of Sarah was what the Nirbhaya rape-murder was to India

20 March 2021 11:45 AM IST

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)

Can states criticise Central law?

SC on Friday sought to know from a petitioner whether the state legislatures have the right to express their opinion or...

20 March 2021 4:09 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

US defence secretary lists strategic ties

This is the first high-profile contact between the Biden administration and the Indian political leadership

20 March 2021 1:38 AM IST

The state is scheduled to go to polls for the 140 member assembly in a single phase on April 6. (AA File Photo)

Left in Kerala promises 20L jobs, pension for housewives

LDF has come out with a slew of promises in its manifesto including 20 lakh jobs for the educated unemployed and 15,000...

20 March 2021 1:26 AM IST