Md Zakaria Siddiqui, Lekshmi Prasad and Sabir Ahamed write: While the government has significantly expanded its scope as the custodian of data, it is increasingly limiting the scope of access to it by responsible citizens
SY Quraishi writes: It is at the root of many forms of violence that are being perpetrated and has become one of the biggest challenges to the rule of law and to our democratic conscience
Suanshu Khurana writes: Her rendition of a Hafiz Hoshirpuri ghazal, made immortal by Mehdi Hassan, has won a Grammy. It is only right to acknowledge its origins
High food inflation as well as wild fluctuation in food prices are fairly chronic events in India. The commodities keep changing through the year but the phenomenon remains the same.
In 2017, Macron promised a centrist “revolution”. Now, his hope is to chip away supporters from both the right and left, by becoming the default candidate for those fearful of a xenophobic Le Pen presidency.
Two-armed youth holding five persons hostage for nine hours in the South Avenue flat of Congress MP Dalbir Singh were overpowered by policemen in a swift 20-minute operation.
Madhav Godbole writes: Indira Gandhi’s intransigence prevented the transfer of the city to Punjab in the 1980s. The Centre must correct this anomaly, and also reconsider the status of other Union Territories
The rise in retail inflation in March was driven primarily by food items — the consumer food price index rose to 7.68 per cent, up from 5.85 per cent the month before.
A growing body of literature attests to the explosion of aspirations after the liberalisation of the economy but the country's educational institutions have struggled to do justice to the pedagogical needs precipitated by the far-reaching
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Putin may lose, but Putinism is ascendant as an ideology — now aligning itself with white supremacism, French chauvinism, Israeli right wing assertion, Ottoman dreams, Chinese aggression or Hindutva aggression.
Rita Kothari writes: India has a unique history of being a nation without a national language, a position not of lack or absence, but of a different model. The rest of the world stands to
Rishabh Bhandari writes: Lockdown fines for Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have forced the British government on the defensive. But cost-of-living crisis remains the real challenge
Eleven persons, including the last of the Lhasa-trained and eight other top PLA extremists and two army personnel were killed in a major encounter in Kodompopki about 10 km from Imphal.
The study suggests that the media does matter, and that long-term exposure to “agenda-setting” news can skew opinions. More importantly, it signals that the silos in which people find themselves, the political camps that threaten
Argentina’s warships were in their home ports or patrolling their mainland coasts as a British blockade of 321 km around the Falkland Islands went into effect.
Anamika writes: The impact of the Common University Entrance Test is likely to be harsher on disadvantaged sections of the society for whom access to higher education is seen as the only route to upward
Although India-US differences on European security are front and centre today, the convergence of their interests in the Indo-Pacific is deep and enduring. Modi and Biden are right in their determination to minimise the former