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Delhi’s attitudes have also shifted from the reactive to the proactive. That, in turn, should make India’s new stint at the UNSC more purposeful and pragmatic.

India’s cricketing stars need to understand that when it comes to COVID-19 prevention, rules are non-negotiable.

A unified regulatory framework with strong checks and balances for the online fantasy sports sector is needed

Speaking at a meeting of the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Calcutta, Mrs Gandhi said the private sector had not risen to expectations.

Effective messaging strategy shall need both a compelling story and a storyteller; credible voices will be crucial, going beyond celebrity status or political popularity

The Biden administration’s tone of engagement may be different from that of the Trump regime, but one must expect continuity in major trade goals

As Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan takes a shrill turn, he must know his own political-administrative record is at stake.

Delhi must unambiguously communicate to Beijing that it will not tolerate the latter’s unilateral revision of the LAC

The National Tiger Conservation Authority’s approach to deal with invasive population of dogs in tiger reserves shows an appalling lack of clarity.

Indira Gandhi observed that the present system had got entangled in red tapism and was embroiled in several other problems. The question, according to the prime minister, was how to make the present system more

Election of a large number of MGNREGS workers to local bodies in Kerala is a hopeful sign of political renewal.

If there is one straw that COVID has offered, it is the tangible evidence that no one entity or group — the state, markets, businesses, entrepreneurs, scientists — can tackle existing and emergent economic and

Approval of vaccines is first step to defeating Covid. Need is to stay with the science — Akhilesh Yadav’s political jab is irresponsible.

Overturning accepted principles of justice, the “burden of proof” is on the accused. The law agencies do not have to bother about proving guilt; instead, the accused will have to run from pillar to post

Hierarchies of caste, class, and gender intersect to form a cocktail of horrors for the women of rural India — we must understand these nuances in order to form any policy that meaningfully tackles gender-based

With sustained economic empowerment, political representation and educational opportunities, Dalits are increasingly becoming an inseparable part of the New India story that is deeply inclusive in its foundation and focused on making the country a

She was a pioneering teacher, feminist and anti-caste discrimination activist.

The end of 2020 marks India investing, between the Savarkar and the Jadhav cases, a century of faith in international law and international dispute resolution.

I believe that the farmers’ protests will teach our rulers (present and future) lessons in humility in governance, passing laws in Parliament, and ruling according to the wishes of the people. Mr Modi has indeed

The economy may have hit an all-time low and unemployment and inflation a new high, but Modi, with his hirsute sanyasi-like looks and his air of calm assurance, exudes confidence and reassurance in these difficult

It has become evident that in the ‘new India’, anyone who questions Modi’s policies will be treated as ‘anti-national’. Dissent is the lifeblood of democracy, so the harm done by this contempt for dissension is

If governments have to step in as monitors of love, and be forced to continuously amend their laws so as to “tighten” them, always couched under other names, how resilient love is.

So while this new low of 36 all out at Adelaide might have replaced our 42 all out at Lord’s as India’s worst Test score ever, it does not change the fact that 1974 was

With the nation facing a “real and present” military threat from two adversaries, it is incumbent upon the GoI — notwithstanding the economic downturn — to find the means to bolster national security.

Flood of Israeli tourists in Dubai shows that, like war, peace can come by other means.