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Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge with BRS MP K. Keshava Rao, DMK MP TR Baalu, AAP MP Sanjay Singh, RJD MP Manoj Jha and fellow opposition MPs during a joint press conference following their Tiranga March, in New Delhi, Thursday, April 6, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | Will Opposition join hands to counter Modi's ED, CBI...

Few elected leaders have suffered humiliation at the hands of successive lieutenant-governors as the AAP's Arvind...

22 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Our response to voices is reverberatingly complicated. There is, for example, this deeply unfair perception that lighter voices belong to intellectual lightweights. Photo by arrangement.

Shreya Sen-Handley | Speaking in tongues: The gift of accents

English spoken in any accent other than their own can have the British flummoxed, or worse scrambling to correct your...

21 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Ladakh sector. (Representational Image)

Manish Tewari | World in churn catalysing new liberal order?

While authoritarian rulers seem to be hell bent on trying to rework the global order on their terms, the pushback is now...

21 May 2023 12:00 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

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Shobhaa De | Karnataka: Maine Pyaar Kiya! The G-Factor' wins big

Rahul Gandhi's ambitious Bharat Jodo Yatra played a big role in spreading positivity in an ocean of hate and suspicion

20 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

Rishi Sunak will take charge as Britains first Indian-origin Prime Minister after an audience with King Charles III on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)

Farrukh Dhondy | Don't Tories know immigration can bring UK into a...

The ambivalently named Illegal Migration Bill is now passing through the House of Lords. It's in trouble

20 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

Pakistans Prime Minister Imran Khan. (Photo:PTI)

K.C. Singh | Imran-Army row: Tragedy replayed or rebalancing?

A rebalancing of civil-military relations may happen if Khan physically survives the current impasse and later sweeps...

19 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal addresses a press conference. (PTI Photo)

Dilip Cherian | Secy falls in line after showcause notice, but Delhi...

What the ongoing power tussle shows are the complex dynamics of administrative authority in Delhi

19 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

Congress workers holding the party flag celebrate the partys win in Karnataka Assembly elections, outside Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, Sunday, May 14, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress' main challenge is burden of expectations

The victory has unsurprisingly created a dilemma that has become quite routine for the Congress

18 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Gen. Syed Asim Munir. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Bhopinder Singh | Target Imran: Gen. Munir a true soldier of Pak Deep...

As Imran's bte noire, Gen. Munir had to endure the former PM's reciprocal indignity of supposed corruption charges

17 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the flagging off ceremony of Vande Bharat Express, at Rani Kamlapati Station, in Bhopal, Saturday, April 1, 2023. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | What was behind Cong K'taka win: The questions that need...

An election is over in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that a ban on the Bajrang Dal was the same as an...

16 May 2023 12:44 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal shows his finger marked with indelible ink after casting his vote for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, at a polling station. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | As 2024 looms, Kejriwal is looking ahead to...

The Congress cannot bask in the glory of the Karnataka sweep and the AAP can't focus only on its long-term pursuits.

16 May 2023 12:30 AM IST