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Bhopinder Singh | How Imran shot himself in foot, and alienated all 3...

There are three main power centres which decide who occupies the Prime Minister’s office in Islamabad’s Red...

22 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani (PTI file image)

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Aakar Patel | Hindenburg saga: Why the markets reactedâ€¦ Can govt now...

One can refer to the Adani-Hindenburg saga as a scandal, scam, non-story, conspiracy against India or something else....

21 Feb 2023 12:06 AM IST

Pakistans Finance Minister Ishaq Dar (C) speaks during a press conference in Islamabad on February 10, 2023. - An IMF team left Pakistan on February 10 having failed to reach a deal on financial aid that would help the country avoid economic collapse. (Photo: AFP)

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K.C. Singh | Growing instability in Pak to increase risks for India

Pakistan is the fifth most populous nation in the world and one of eight nations with declared nuclear weapons. But in...

21 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

$\What a surprise! A few weeks after the BBC aired the documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BBC India is now raided by Income Tax (IT) department officials. Agencies like Income Tax, CBI, and ED have become laughing stock for turning into BJPs biggest puppets. What next? ED raids on Hindenberg or a hostile takeover attempt?(sic) he asked. (DC)$ Opinion

Kishwar Desai | BBC trouble may take Sharp turn; how Sajid plans to...

Do not for a moment think BBC has a problem only in India. It has a bigger problem at home. The chairman of BBC Richard...

20 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

In his close to nine years in office Prime Minister Modi has not yet been invited by the US for a state visit, though he did address the US Congress. (Photo: PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | If not 126, then 220â€¦ Modi deals China card

Mahbub-ul-Haq was a distinguished Pakistani economist. A contemporary of Manmohan Singh and Amartya Sen at Cambridge...

20 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

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Ranjona Banerji | Alpha, Boomer, Z, Gen X! Which is the coolest one?

I have learnt so much from being addicted to Instagram reels. I would have watched that other short video app stuff but...

19 Feb 2023 12:15 AM IST

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Pavan K. Varma | In search of a Dharma that sustains the nation

At the Times Literary Festival last week, I participated in a discussion on Swarajya chief editor R. Jagannathan’s...

19 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

Senior Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi (PTI)

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Anita Katyal | Rahul shave made into a hairy affair; time for Cabinet...

During the course of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, there was constant chatter either about his...

19 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi replies to the Motion of Thanks on the Presidents Address as Congress MP Rahul Gandhi listens to him in the Lok Sabha during Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

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Anand K. Sahay | Ideological conflicts set to intensify in run-up to...

A new stage in our politics appears to be setting itself, driven by the intensification of the ideological conflict...

18 Feb 2023 12:46 AM IST

$In this April 5, 2002 file photo, The Koh-i-noor, or \mountain of light,\ diamond, set in the Maltese Cross at the front of the crown made for Britains late Queen Mother Elizabeth, is seen on her coffin as it is drawn to Londons Westminster Hall. (Photo: AP)$ Opinion