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A file photo of Indian army soldiers patrollingl near the Line of Control (LOC), in Akhnoor, about 65kms from Jammu. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Agnipath: Bringing the gig' economy to India's...

The Union government is experimenting with applying these start-up human resources management principles to the...

20 Jun 2022 11:35 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Indian chess grandmasters Viswanathan Anand, Koneru Humpy and Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur during the launch of torch relay for 44th Chess Olympiad, at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Welcoming spirit of chess to India

Chess was India's gift to the world, but it might be one of the many ancient truths lost on us

20 Jun 2022 11:30 PM IST

Youngsters stage a protest against the newly announced Agnipath scheme, at Jalandhar-Delhi national highway, in Jalandhar, on Saturday. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Anger on streets over Agnipath reflects how New India...

There are no jobs in New India and the anger over the changes in the Army recruitment system is emblematic of a much...

20 Jun 2022 11:29 PM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Home minister Amit Shah during a meeting in Patna. (PTI file photo)

AA Edit | Why rewrite history?

Nitish Kumar's wonderment about how history can be revisited is as much pregnant with political meaning as the call of...

19 Jun 2022 11:39 PM IST

A file photo of NCP President Sharad Pawar, West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee during a meeting at the formers residence in Mumbai. NCP leader Prafull Patel and TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee are also seen. (PTI Photo)

Didi, upset with Pawar's agenda, to skip Oppn meet on Prez polls

Mamata Banerjee may send her nephew MP Abhishek Banerjee

19 Jun 2022 11:27 PM IST

Indian army soldiers are seen near the site of a gunbattle between suspected militants and government security forces at Moachwah in Chadoora area of Budgam district on the outskirts of Srinagar on October 28, 2020. (AFP)

Syed Ata Hasnain | Agnipath to transform our military, so give it a...

Transformation always means wholescale uprooting of the old and planting of the new. Agnipath is a subset of the...

19 Jun 2022 11:20 PM IST

A train set on fire by a crowd in protest against the Centres Agnipath scheme, at Danapur Railway station, near Patna, on Friday, 2022. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Arson, vandalism aren't the way to protest; stop lunacy

Let us end all violence in the name of protest. You don't have a right to destroy another citizen, or their property

19 Jun 2022 11:18 PM IST

Britains Home Secretary Priti Patel. (Photo:AP file)

Kishwar Desai | Big hats are all the rage after Jubilee; Charles in...

Home secretary Priti Patel has shocked everyone by executing a bold scheme to transport all illegal immigrants to Rwanda

19 Jun 2022 11:13 PM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Aah... the folly of youth 'twas to other' the old!

It's not about how old you are. Maybe it's about how old you make yourself out to be

19 Jun 2022 12:18 AM IST

The louder pre-alarm alarm for the news media in India and elsewhere is that not only has trust been declining, interest in news appears to have fallen across the world: a huge plunge from 63 per cent last year to 52 per cent this year. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Why people are avoiding news; and what must be done to fix things

Only 42 per cent of respondents said they trust news

19 Jun 2022 12:09 AM IST

Over the Edge By Vandana Kumari Jena. (Image by arrangement)

24 startling stories begging to be reread...

'Over the Edge' is like having an entire meal of short-eats or starters, each snack is fulfilling and tasty by itself

18 Jun 2022 11:56 PM IST

Rani Gaidinliu By Som Kamei. (Image by arrangement)

Book excerpt: India needs to learn about this intrepid queen' of N-E

Excerpt from 'Rani Gaidinliu: Legendary Freedom Fighter from the Northeast'

18 Jun 2022 11:52 PM IST