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Kishwar Desai | UK-US ties to get strained in 2025; music keeps Paul,...

As a “perfect storm” blows through the UK, disrupting flights and road travel, it does not augur well for those with...

23 Dec 2024 12:38 AM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | Budget 2025: Taking India’s economy from good to great

Even as most taxpayers will be busy this coming week making plans for the year-end and the New Year, Union finance ...

23 Dec 2024 12:33 AM IST

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Pavan K. Varma | Why India world’s ‘happiest country’ but must get rid...

The legendary fourth king of Bhutan, His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, ruled for 34 years, until he voluntarily...

22 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Anita Katyal | Fuss over edited Amit Shah clip; how Priyanka got her...

Irrespective of who is to blame for last week’s scuffle between MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress on ...

22 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Shreya Sen-Handley | Alternative awards for the year-end warp-up

We wrap every year up at its end with tinsel, and meaningless pleasantries about the next. But let’s not mince words...

22 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Air gets too toxic to breathe: Whose...

Delhi’s Central Pollution Board, the Committee for Air Quality Management (CAQM) for the National Capital Region and...

21 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Christmas seems to come earlier every year… amid the...

“Shah Jahan was obsessed with his wife Is the Taj a monument to her life Or just to her death? -- A bitter ...

21 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Kamal Davar | Strict watch on the challenge of ‘Khalistan’ is vital in...

Some weeks ago, former Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, undergoing religious penance at the holy ...

20 Dec 2024 7:45 PM IST

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Patralekha Chatterjee | Let people celebrate, or India’s rise will be...

In this season of celebrations, can anyone be denied their right to celebrate? That is exactly what happened to...

20 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Many dangers in Mideast ahead; Syria up for...

What West Asia needs is not ecstatic triumphalism but peace and reconciliation that will allow all factions in Syria,...

19 Dec 2024 12:00 AM IST

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Dilip Cherian | Why are states dodging mandate of apex court on police...

Several states continue defying 2006 DGP appointment guidelines, frustrating the Supreme Court's efforts to ensure...

19 Dec 2024 12:00 AM IST

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Shikha Mukerjee | Centralising India amidst imperatives of coalitions

Reversing the inexorable advance towards centralisation of executive power, programmes and election schedules...

18 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST