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Dilip Cherian | Ministers, babus concentrate on development at Chinese border

1,400 border villages have been identified and ministers will visit to understand issues faced by people there

16 Mar 2023 12:00 AM

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | ‘Not era of war’: India needs to push Ukraine peace talks

The International Crisis Group has its eye on 10 global wars that might explode during 2023

15 Mar 2023 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese before the start of the fourth test cricket match between India and Australia, at Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (PTI File Photo)

AA Edit | On a good wicket, India-Australia ties amalgamate

The ties moved on with several Memoranda of Agreements being signed, ranging from sport, culture and innovation to education

11 Mar 2023 12:43 AM

Instead of taking a democratic route and answering the concerns, the ruling party has chosen to cast aspersions on the Opposition and throw muck on them. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Stop ignoring Opp. concerns

The PM’s office has remained silent and let the party speak

11 Mar 2023 12:38 AM

The party recently created a special initiative to focus on nearly 160 Lok Sabha constituencies, in which in previous elections it has seldom won, or lost by a close margin. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | BJP gets cracking on 2024 strategy as Opp. flounders

By most accounts, the saffron party already has an inertial and incumbent’s edge for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections

10 Mar 2023 12:05 AM

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)

AA Edit | Northeast gets closer to mainstream India

While each one of the seven states has its own unique features, together they offer great opportunities for themselves and for the nation

08 Mar 2023 12:10 AM

The Indus river in Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. (AP File Photo)

Mohan Guruswamy | Indus waters: Yawning gap between threat and reality

World Bank brokered the IWT between India and Pak after many years of intense negotiations to allocate the waters of the Indus river basin

08 Mar 2023 12:05 AM

The wins also convey a message to the Christian world, that Narendra Modi is a credible, popular leader who is trusted by the people in Nagaland and Meghalaya. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | N-E verdict: Why there’s no alternative to Modi

The BJP’s success, on its own in Tripura and as a junior alliance partner in Nagaland and Meghalaya, are invaluable to Mr Modi

07 Mar 2023 1:00 AM

Delhi Police personnel escort Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia form Rajghat ahead of his questioning by CBI in the liquor policy case, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)

AA Edit | It’s time to introspect on democracy in India

Political vendetta cannot be an excuse or defence against massive, institutionalised corruption

07 Mar 2023 12:10 AM

Anita Katyal | Sisodia arrest well timed; not Gehlot but Pilot has fun at plenary

It was no coincidence that developments in the Manish Sisodia case picked up pace on the day the Congress plenary session was underway

05 Mar 2023 12:05 AM

While the intent is one that would have the support of all Indians and their global allies, the question is, how exactly is India poised on the world stage? (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | No room for atavism if India hopes to be a leading world power

The first distinction of importance is the definition of world powers and where India stands or seeks to stand

04 Mar 2023 11:38 PM

The principles of party organisation, the programmes or vision statements of parties, the slogans they employ, the nature of their day-to-day activity, are closely tied to the question of class interests. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Cong vs BJP: ‘Ideological’ analysis rings hollow sans class perspective

A study of ideology can hardly be divested from an enquiry into class, which is not undertaken here

04 Mar 2023 10:59 PM

K.C. Singh | Global tensions stymie India’s G-20 leadership

The Ukraine war has polarised the group with China increasingly in the Russian corner, opposing any condemnatory words about it

04 Mar 2023 12:37 AM

Dilip Cherian | Exodus of babus from Punjab amid ‘Khalistan’ uproar

The situation is fluid and it does not help that the administration has been shown up as meek and submissive

02 Mar 2023 12:05 AM

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Chhattisgarh state President Mohan Markam and other party leaders during the 85th plenary session, in Raipur, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Congress plenary: The real stuff behind the headlines

There is much more to the Congress carnival at Raipur than the speeches of Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi

28 Feb 2023 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong witness launch of the UPI-PayNow linkage (Real-time Payment Systems Linkage between the two countries) via video conferencing. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | UPI may be a game-changer

Singapore is the first country with which India has launched a cross-border person-to-person (P2P) payment facility

24 Feb 2023 12:10 AM

It is a position kept vacant for the Congress but it will have to fight a patient and careful battle before it gets to occupy it. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | It’ll take more than Cong to form a front against BJP

The Congress and its elected president must, hence, abandon the thought that they are the natural leaders of an anti-BJP front.

24 Feb 2023 12:05 AM

Ukrainian soldiers rest near their position in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine. (AP File Photo)

AA Edit | Ukraine war to rage on for now

The world has suffered, but none more than the Ukrainians as their country has been pummelled by missiles of modern warfare

22 Feb 2023 12:29 AM

Security personnel outside the residence of a Congress leader during a raid by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a mining case, in Raipur, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. ED conducted searches at multiple locations in Chhattisgarh in the case. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Timing of ED raids in Chhattisgarh is suspect

The BJP should not think that it can create an “Opposition-mukt Bharat” by denying them political space

22 Feb 2023 12:18 AM

Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference. (File Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Slow economic growth a major challenge for govt

The MPC statement shows that inflation remains an issue of concern, something that the FM refused to take into account in her Budget

22 Feb 2023 12:05 AM

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