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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. (PTI)

Dilip Cherian | Why babu rejig in UP govt is an ongoing process

Last week, the UP government reshuffled 13 IAS officers, including 10 of the rank of district magistrates and CDOs, with...

5 Aug 2022 12:30 AM IST

AA Edit | Opposition must do much more to unitedly battle BJP in 2024

The Opposition leaders have reasons to think of a real fight at the hustings and they have listed some

27 Sept 2022 12:10 AM IST

AA Edit | Relief without sufficient cause

Court's reasoning would vie with that of the person who sought clemency for being an orphan after being convicted for...

2 Sept 2022 12:06 AM IST

Union law minister Kiren Rijiju. (Photo: PTI)

Anita Katyal | Rijiju flavour of month for BJP; Didi to expand media...

The fact that several states in the Northeast are heading for elections one of the reasons for this honour to Kiren...

22 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Zakir Hussain performs at the Kolkata stage. Credit: Shiladitya Chattoraj

Shailaja Khanna | Are musicians today losing confidence in desi...

The young seem unable to fully relate to music that is solely authentically indigenous, whether Thai, Cambodian or...

15 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

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)

Anand K. Sahay | What Congress must do if it is to lead Opp. front

It is not so much the unity of parties as the unity of various forces in society that will eventually matter

2 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

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