Elon Musk likes weird post saying Britishers never ruled India, gets an earful from IndiansElon Musk ignited controversy by endorsing a viral tweet that absurdly claimed India was never ruled by the British, using flawed logic abo...
02 Oct, 2025, 08.51 PM IST
Allahabad HC asks Uttar Pradesh government to cease the practice of mentioning caste in police recordsThe Allahabad High Court has ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to stop mentioning the caste of accused individuals in police records, de...
21 Sep, 2025, 02.59 PM IST
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman cancelled: Bangladesh seeks new 'father' in PakistanBangladesh faces a shift away from its original values. The removal of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's image signals this change. Reports suggest a...
04 Jun, 2025, 08.58 PM IST
The fact is, jingo bells, jingo bells, jingoism all the wayThe article explores the prevailing jingoism in the US and India, where facts are often dismissed in favor of national pride. An Ivy League...
17 Aug, 2024, 11.34 PM IST
China and Russia: Explaining a long, complicated friendshipChinese and Russian states have loomed large in each other's foreign affairs since the 17th century, when two empires created a border with...
22 Mar, 2023, 05.05 PM IST
View: America’s Tibet law should spur India to reclaim lost leverage on ChinaToday, China is claiming Indian areas on the basis not of any Han Chinese connection to them but alleged Tibetan ecclesial or tutelary link...
14 Jan, 2021, 11.05 AM IST
View: Statue debate is giving us a more rounded history lessonIndians are realising that history is much more than what politically correct textbooks revealed.
18 Nov, 2018, 11.43 AM IST
Doklam sends out a big message to China's small neighboursThe Doklam saga will encourage countries like Vietnam, Mongolia, Singapore and Japan that have been pushing back at China.
12 Jul, 2018, 11.27 AM IST
West Bengal: Will Congress and its B-team CPM step out for a 'jhappi' now?With the local CPM formally making an overture to the Congress, even the pretence of being hostile to ‘parliamentary cretinism’ has been sh...
07 Feb, 2016, 11.57 AM IST
Google ordered to remove links to stories about google removing links to storiesLast year, the EU created a mechanism for people to ask Google to scrub certain results from searches for their names.
21 Aug, 2015, 01.59 PM IST
View: Let’s make a desi Game of Thrones, rather than murdering our mythosWe have a wealth of great writers and creators here, and surely it's possible to make our own GoT, one we can all be proud of watching.
05 Jul, 2015, 11.10 AM IST
No private members bill gets Parliament nod since 1970According to PRS Legislative Research, 343 private members bills were introduced but only 17 were discussed while only 14 of them were disc...
25 Apr, 2015, 11.22 AM IST
2014 Polls: Is Narendra Modi a too-big-to-fail persona?It is best to see Modi as the Salman Khan of politics, a cult icon whose fans feed off his testosterone. His fans have invested too much in...
12 Dec, 2013, 10.01 AM IST
Nehru's criticism based on falsehood, says Sonia GandhiCongress president Sonia Gandhi today said that criticism of the first prime minister by some forces was based on "inaundo, insinuation and...
16 Nov, 2013, 09.29 PM IST
- Expelled, then embraced
BJP has taken Jaswant Singh back, but what of his views?
26 Jun, 2010, 06.24 AM IST
- Leader at odds with ideology
But causing a stir is also good publicity.
19 Aug, 2009, 02.55 AM IST
- Look east; look India: Japan PM
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to briefly escape the political heat at home next week as he goes to India and pursues one of his passions -- try...
17 Aug, 2007, 09.00 AM IST