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Race riots in US and walk of the dispossessed in India

BY SAEED NAQVI A passionate appraisal of the widespread anger at George Floyd's murder by a white policeman that newspaper columns are full...

The way forward for Congress

BY JAYANTA GHOSAL In 1947 after independence, Jawaharlal Nehru asked Dr Bidhan Roy to become the Uttar Pradesh Governor. I learnt from the writings...

Why Tablighis are on a dark and deadly mission

BY SAEED NAQVI In the early 70s, Indian missions in West Asia received a curt directive from South Block: do not issue visas to...

India at 70: The idea of progress cannot be taken for...

By Rajesh Mahapatra Seventy years is not really a long time for an ancient civilization. But for a young nation, seven decades of memory,...

Fair is foul and foul is fair in the Trump universe

BY SAEED NAQVI When the tortoise agreed to ferry a stranded scorpion on its back across the river, which was in spate, he didn't...

‘Just what the truth is I can’t say anymore’

BY SUYASH CHOUDHARY Moody's blues? A macro update Global rating agency Moody's downgraded India's sovereign rating by one notch to the threshold of investment grade. The...

How Modi and Trump use public rallies to build their political...

By Kanishk Tharoor Donald Trump’s voluble threat to bring “fire and fury” upon North Korea was surprising for a number reasons, including its forum....

Is shrinking Lotus eclipsing BJP’s dream of ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’?

BY ANINDYA BANERJEE New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) May 24, 2019 -- was a day of jubilation at the BJP headquarters here with showers of fresh...

The BJP has won but the Congress hasn’t lost

Gujarat 2017 is an interesting study in terms of election results: the winner has won, but the loser hasn’t lost. If ever a victory has...

India leaps 30 places to 100th rank in World Bank’s ‘ease...

New Delhi: India jumped 30 places to the 100th rank among 190 countries in the latest edition of the World Bank’s global rankings on...