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DC Edit | Unopposed poll victories not good for democracy

DC Edit | Unopposed poll victories not good for democracy

Surat Election Rendered Moot as BJP Candidate Mukesh Dalal Declared Winner Amid Controversy Over Invalid Candidacy of...

24 April 2024 7:24 PM

Vaisakhi, Satyagrah & Reviving the Saga of the Street

Vaisakhi, Satyagrah & Reviving the Saga of the Street

Eleven minutes. Merely 11 minutes filled the annals of history with the screams of those Punjabis who had come in their...

13 April 2024 10:50 AM

Passage of Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, Landmark Achievement for Womens Empowerment

Passage of Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, Landmark Achievement for...

A growing awareness and consensus among public figures in India regarding gender equality

29 Sept 2023 4:10 PM

Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (Twitter)

DC Edit | -'Santa-' Jagan brings digital hope

It would surprise most Indians outside the Telugu states to learn that Andhra Pradesh under one of the country's...

23 Dec 2022 5:01 AM

A health worker collects sample of a woman for COVID testing at a medical camp in Chennai. PTI photo

DC Edit | Be watchful on Covid: Restart jabs, wear masks, don-'t panic

The latest surge of Covid-19 cases in China, Japan, the United States, Republic of Korea and Brazil saw the Union...

23 Dec 2022 4:44 AM

n early morning pedestrian is silhouetted against sunrise as he walks through the U.S. Flags on the National Mall and past the US Capitol Building in Washington Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, one day before the midterm election will determine the control of the US Congress. (Photo: AP)

DC Edit | Shot in the arm for Biden as Democrats retain Senate control

Invigorated by the midterm verdict in which the Democrats are certain to retain control of the Senate, US President Joe...

14 Nov 2022 6:30 PM

Gehlot and Pilot were at loggerheads over the chief ministers post soon after the Congress won the 2018 Rajasthan Assembly polls. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Cong must keep flock together in Rajasthan

The knives are out again in the Congress unit in Rajasthan, one of the two states in which the party runs a government....

3 Nov 2022 8:09 PM

Harish Rao (DC)

Is the Centre fair in imposing cuts in borrowing limits of States...

The need for maintaining fiscal sustainability is unquestionable. This is a joint responsibility of the Centre and the...

15 Oct 2022 8:34 PM

Watch | Deccan Dialogues: Fall of the Rupee; The Significance of Murmu

Watch | Deccan Dialogues: Fall of the Rupee; The Significance of Murmu

Welcome to Deccan Dialogues. A fresh public discourse initiative from Hyderabad. Public intellectuals Mohan Guruswamy...

23 July 2022 8:36 AM

Ali Babar Patra, the 19-year-old surrendered during a encounter-infiltration operation by the army in Uri sector on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. (PTI)

DC Edit | Terrorist capture exposes Pak

It is not often that these trained and highly motivated conduits of terror are captured alive

29 Sept 2021 9:06 PM

Mr Kumar and Mr Mevani have not turned to the Congress drawn by its leadership, although many Indians regard Rahul Gandhi, for all his shortcomings that are on view, as the sole committed ideological opponent of the current dispensation at the highest political levels. (PTI)

DC Edit | Good riddance to Sidhu; but don't stifle Mevani, Kanhaiya

The choice of senior personnel, and selection of party candidates for elections in some states, has caused discontent...

29 Sept 2021 8:51 PM

Whats likely to impart energy on the ground to an Opposition line-up is the presence of prominent non-Congress chief ministers at the discussion. Representational Image. (Twitter)

DC Edit | Opp. groupingâ€™s 1st test of unity

Joint protests have proved a good mobilising tool for decades if the demands being raised connect with the people

22 Aug 2021 10:50 PM