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Chief Justice Ramanas strictures on police methods and condemnation of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code on sedition apply to all three nations, not just India, where the tragedy of the late Father Stan Swamy heaped shame and disgrace on the authorities. (Twitter)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Colonial era tools don't belong in a democracy

Justice delayed is justice denied, especially in district and subordinate courts where 33.3 million cases were pending...

17 Aug 2021 2:06 AM IST

Kharge said that India has a total of 366 PSUs employing 9.2 lakh regular employees and 4.98 lakh contractual employees. The Railways employs 12.53 lakh persons and the department of posts 4.18 lakh employees. If all these are sold off, what will be the future of these employees and their families, he asked. DC file photo

Modi and BJP engaged in 'buying and selling' policy, says Kharge

The NMP reverses years of established policy without any objective criterion, Kharge said

4 Sept 2021 1:59 AM IST

Kharge said that India has a total of 366 PSUs employing 9.2 lakh regular employees and 4.98 lakh contractual employees. The Railways employs 12.53 lakh persons and the department of posts 4.18 lakh employees. If all these are sold off, what will be the future of these employees and their families, he asked. DC file photo

Modi and BJP engaged in 'buying and selling' policy, says Kharge

The NMP reverses years of established policy without any objective criterion, Kharge said

4 Sept 2021 1:31 AM IST

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Anand K. Sahay | Loyalists' and Congress: Will polls change party?

Whatever the party's many failings, it is hard to see the Congress as a straitjacketed Stalinist outfit in which free...

13 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | The 1962 India-China war: In dubious battle

Governmental decision-making still characterised by ad hocism and a tendency to grandstand

22 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

The needless and avoidable death of 133 people so far after a suspension bridge collapsed in Morbi in Gujarat, must become Indias resolve to never again have such a tragedy. (Photo: AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Any corner can be cut in a land of...

The handful FIRs that were filed in the Morbi bridge collapse illustrates that there is no credible mechanism to punish...

9 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command, Lt Gen MM Naravane, review the security situation and operational preparedness in the border areas of Arunachal Pradesh, in Tawang. (PTI file photo)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | 1962 to 2022: No lessons learnt on tackling...

One only hopes that 60 years from now, history won't repeat itself in 2082

16 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same ideals

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same...

There is a belief that Sardar Patel would have sorted out Pakistan and we would never have had the Kashmir problem

6 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

If there are two large and rising powers in a region, rivalry is inevitable. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Are India and China going to be rivals for all time?

The roots of our problem with China go back a couple of hundred years when Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander met in...

6 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh has been admitted to AIIMS hospital after he complained of chest pain. (File photo: PTI)

Singh hits out at Modi for blaming Nehru for all ills

'Despite being in power for seven and a half years, the BJP is still blaming the country's first PM, Nehru, for people's...

18 Feb 2022 1:46 AM IST

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inauguration of Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | India needed to hear Modi's ode to past PMs

The divide was exploited by the BJP under PM Modi, even exacerbated by his party, but was not created by them

16 April 2022 12:00 AM IST

I Am an Ordinary Man : Indias Struggle for Freedom (19141948). (Image: DC)

Book Excerpt: In his own words: How Gandhi stayed true to his ahimsa...

IF FOUR SCORE IS IMPERTINENCE, FIVE SCORE WILL BE INTOLERABLE

8 Oct 2023 12:00 AM IST