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Impartiality is key to elections

The Election Commission’s two written responses and the photograph of bonhomie among its three members have done little to answer the questio Read more...

Trump-Xi summit: What it means for India...

The presidents of the world’s two largest economies, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, met at a three-day high-stakes summit in Washington from Se Read more...

CEC must quit. SIR ‘clean-up’ needs audit...

The media expose of the ongoing SIR exercise, causing a rupture of consensus within the Election Commission has confirmed a lot of apprehensions ab Read more...

Vishwa Guru and the Asian Games medal tally...

India has acquired an impressive vocabulary for describing its place in the world. Among the more ambitious descriptions is “Vishwa Guru&rdqu Read more...

India’s permanent UNSC seat dream still distant...

India’s push for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council got a fillip with backing from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic Read more...

Needed: A law to protect students

Bengaluru

The death of a student at IIT Bombay by suicide has once again brought to the fore the issue of stude Read more...

Reckless, defiant youth portend danger

A series of high-profile car accidents reported from across the country have shocked parents and sent alarms for all those who have anything to do Read more...

AI at crossroads: Where to from here?

I t is needless to emphasise that AI, or artificial intelligence, has become a part of the everyday life of most people, especially tech-savvy ones Read more...

UPI fee, what’s next? citizens fume

The Union Government’s decision to levy a fee of 0.4 percent on Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on every person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions a Read more...

India’s women have arrived; cricket must now catch up...

India’s eighth Women’s Asia Cup title should be celebrated for what it is: not merely another trophy for an increasingly decorated team Read more...