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President of China Xi Jinping. (AFP)

Anita Anand | Chinese going a step backwards, taking away the sky from...

In contemporary China, while women's rights have improved a great deal, they face discrimination in the workforce.

9 Nov 2023 5:58 PM GMT

Union Public Service Commission. (Image: UPSC)

Dilip Cherian | UPSC updates guidelines on choice of DGPs

why this volte-face?

8 Nov 2023 6:30 PM GMT

Hamas, which rules the territory, held Ahmad Said Barhoum for several months without trial before handing him over to the family, several of whose members belong to the Islamist movement. (Photo: Representational | AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | In Hamas, has Bibi found the enemy Israel...

Hamas was not formally outlawed by the Israeli military authorities until 1989

8 Nov 2023 6:30 PM GMT

The capital city of Delhi enveloped in smog in New Delhi, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Air pollution level is Delhi-NCR has started rising owing much to stubble (parali) burning in adjoining states. (PTI Photo/Arun Sharma)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Delhi's nightmare: Leaders bicker while...

The Centre wants commercial vehicles which do not cater to essential services to be stopped, & 50 percent of employees...

7 Nov 2023 6:35 PM GMT

US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. (Twitter)

Saeed Naqvi | Decoding Blinken's frenetic diplomacy in Mideast & role...

Iran, Hezbollah and the entire Shia arc, was cajoled and threatened not to expand the conflict.

7 Nov 2023 6:35 PM GMT

Fire and smoke rises from buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. AP/PTI

Syed Ata Hasnain | Israel-Hamas war: Does expansion loom large?

The world cannot afford any more bloodletting of such proportions

6 Nov 2023 6:41 PM GMT

There are several petitions before the Supreme Court of India challenging the constitutional validity of the law. (Representational Image/ ANI File)

Aakar Patel | It's time to end the anonymous funding of all Indian...

The next body to say the electoral bonds scheme was dangerous was the Election Commission.

6 Nov 2023 6:38 PM GMT

Maratha activist Manoj Jarange Patil. (Image: Twitter)

Sunil Gatade | Maratha quota issue unravels like time bomb' in Maha...

The issue has taken centre-stage with the emergence of Manoj Jarange Patil from the backward Marathwada region.

5 Nov 2023 6:35 PM GMT

The BJPs worries have found reflection in a series of haphazard steps taken by the party or the government. (PTI File Image)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Many worries for BJP as semi-final' vote looms

The ultra-nationalistic narrative emerged as the overarching narrative, clearly missing at this stage.

5 Nov 2023 6:08 PM GMT

In this photograph taken on July 22, 2016, a Premiere Padmini taxi is parked alongside other taxis outside a railway station in the Indian city of Mumbai. (AFP PHOTO / INDRANIL MUKHERJEE)

Ranjona Banerji | The dashing kaali-peeli drivers of Mumbai

What made the Mumbai kaali-peeli my lifeline were the people, not the cars.

4 Nov 2023 6:38 PM GMT

Palestinians inspect the damage of a house destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. AP/PTI

Manish Tewari | To foil wider conflict, Israel must stop sacking of...

Is a disproportionately asymmetric conventional response to an outrage perpetrated by semi-state actors warranted?

4 Nov 2023 6:35 PM GMT

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP/PTI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Hamas terrorists' or militants': A word storm as Gaza...

The BBC has stubbornly refused to call the Hamas personnel terrorists . The BBC has called them militants .

3 Nov 2023 6:28 PM GMT