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Bandi Sanjay Kumar, the BJPs state unit president, objects that the newly-built domed state secretariat symbolises slavery: domes recall the culture of the Nizams. (Photo: Twitter/@bandisanjay_bjp)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | In search of conspiracies, with no sense of the...

Honesty demands giving credit where credit is due. Foreigners are blamed for many things, but they preserved India's...

1 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

Voters show their identification cards as they wait in queues to cast their votes at a polling booth during the Tripura Assembly elections, in Rajnagar, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. (Representational Image/PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | What kind of society are we, how much of a...

We were always a hybrid democracy, direct democracy at the local levels and representative democracy at the regional and...

25 April 2023 1:03 AM IST

Atiq Ahmed, his brother Ashraf speak to media, moments before they were shot dead. (ANI)

Manish Tewari | End fake encounters; make an example of Atiq killers

There seems to be an implicit acceptance of these extrajudicial killings which are euphemistically referred to as ...

23 April 2023 12:01 AM IST

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AA Edit | SC flags misuse of NSA for UP political vendetta

The NSA is not the first piece of legislation which govts invoke at their convenience to penalise people through the...

14 April 2023 12:10 AM IST

Family members during the final rites of Sneha Chaurasia, who was shot dead inside the Greater Noidas Shiv Nadar University allegedly by a classmate, in Kanpur, Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Anita Anand | How trauma and rejection led to a murder-suicide tragedy...

Such incidents can be averted with greater awareness and preparedness in understanding our emotions

28 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

Karnataka is now a key battleground for the Modi-Shah duo to shake off the Opposition challenge amid the growing Congress belligerence. (Photo: PTI)

Sunil Gatade | After its debacle in Karnataka, BJP is facing a lot of...

The BJP is most concerned about Brand Modi and whether Karnataka has simply harmed or nearly destroyed it

21 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

As the monsoon plays truant in an El Nino year, as reflected in its setting in over many parts of southern and western India much later than usual, cyclone Biparjoy is being blamed for spoiling its path. (Representational Image)

AA Edit | Hot weather can be a killer

Medical analysis seems to suggest that extreme heat and humidity are exacerbating the existing preconditions in the...

20 Jun 2023 12:00 AM IST

Security personnel detain wrestler Sakshi Malik during wrestlers protest march towards new Parliament building, in New Delhi, Sunday, May 28, 2023. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | Govt needs to deliver on its promises to wrestlers

It does not cover the govt with glory that it took the intervention of the SC for the police even to register an FIR...

9 Jun 2023 12:15 AM IST

The snake rescuers claimed that getting a fitness certificate of the reptile was another reason for the delayed release of the reptiles. (Representational image)

Indian child dies from mother's 'snake bite' breast milk

A post-mortem is to be carried out but police have registered a case of accidental death, the officer added.

26 May 2018 4:30 PM IST

A 36-year-old pregnant woman was allegedly pushed off a moving train by her boyfriend in West Bengals Malda district. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

UP woman gives birth in railway toilet after hospital refuses to admit...

Due to absence of doctors or medicinal facilities, baby died shortly after birth.

23 May 2018 1:08 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh police personnel tackle protestors following Prime Minister Narendra Modis rally in Ghazipur on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

19 arrested after police constable killed in stone pelting in UP's...

Suresh Vats was killed Saturday when protesters hurled stones at vehicles returning from venue of PM Modi's public...

30 Dec 2018 2:02 PM IST

The body of Sodan Singh was found hanging from a noose near a tubewell on Sunday. (Photo: ANI)

Muzaffarnagar riots accused found hanging from noose, family suspect...

While the police termed it a case of suicide, Sodan's relatives alleged that he was murdered by an enemy.

25 Dec 2018 11:01 AM IST