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The author is a noted media academic and columnist, and former Dean of Symbiosis and Amity Universities.

Opposition in a disarray: Fresh template needed

Opposition in a disarray: Fresh template needed

The 2019 election results have been a bolt from the blue and have caught the opposition parties unawares.

21 Jun 2019 11:46 AM IST

Bengal between devil & deep sea

Bengal between devil & deep sea

BJP claims around 54 cadres killed and TMC says some 19 killed over the last three months.

12 Jun 2019 11:40 AM IST

NDA win decisive over miserable failure of Congress, regional parties

NDA win decisive over miserable failure of Congress, regional parties

On the Congress-led UPA side, the situation by 12 noon has shown that it did not gain much from last time.

23 May 2019 1:47 PM IST

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee addresses the media in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata versus CBI: Implications beyond the moment

Trinamool government in West Bengal also hailed the court's order as a vindication of its stand.

5 Feb 2019 2:50 PM IST

A file photo of the mining activity around Bannerghatta National Park

Meghalaya mining crisis: illegal, inhuman, anti-ecology

Official inquiries into flooding disasters at approved mines, including Chasnala, have shown serious shortcomings in...

16 Jan 2019 3:41 PM IST

A top government functionary said a constitutional amendment Bill will be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.

Ten questions on 10 per cent reservation

Current policy says that those below Rs 8 lacs annual income or owning less than 5 acres of land can avail of the...

9 Jan 2019 10:52 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is leaving for Delhi on Monday, said she would seek time from Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to discuss the issue. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Will Mamata be the New Chandrasekhar?

It is often said that politics is the art of the possible. Oftentimes, it is more the art of the impossible turned...

7 Jan 2019 10:13 AM IST

Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath and the partys campaign committee chief Jyotiraditya Scindia have contacted potential allies, the sources said. (Photo: PTI)

Verdict 2018, Impact 2019: Focus on people's issues, not personalities

The usually divided Congress put up a unitd front these elections, BJP didn't.

11 Dec 2018 5:42 PM IST

Iranians in general understand that the US led West has been doing injustice towards them, and hence they are by and large with the government on international policy, (Photo: AP)

Ten things I did not know about Iran

The Tehran Municipality has created a huge ultra modern war museum with images, video, news paper clips.

4 Dec 2018 10:45 AM IST

MoS External Affairs, MJ Akbar. (Photo: File)

#MeToo version 2.0 starts now

The hearing on the criminal case against journalist Priya Ramani by former editor and BJP MP MJ Akbar starts today.

18 Oct 2018 12:12 PM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Decoding politics of competitive appeasement

Mamata is caught in her own game of mindless appeasement of the Muslims first and now Hindus for Durga Puja.

5 Oct 2018 3:36 PM IST

Gay rights supporters celebrate outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi on Tuesday after the apex court agreed to review agreed to hear the petition on Section 377 which makes gay sex a criminal offence. (Photo: PTI)

Gay sex legal, the fight is now for gay rights

In focus are wider issues of acceptance and genuine equality encompassed in the concepts of companionship.

7 Sept 2018 10:30 AM IST