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Dilip Cherian | SC Decision Spells End Of IPS ‘Glass Ceiling’ In Paramilitary Forces

Dilip Cherian | SC Decision Spells End Of IPS ‘Glass Ceiling’ In...

The Supreme Court’s latest refusal to review its May 2025 ruling, which ordered a phased, two-year reduction of IPS...

5 Nov 2025 11:51 PM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | The Battle For Bihar: Democracy Is Dead… Long Live Democracy!

Mohan Guruswamy | The Battle For Bihar: Democracy Is Dead… Long Live...

The democratic path depends most upon one human quality: restraint. From restraint flows the spirit of accommodation,...

4 Nov 2025 10:38 PM IST

Manash Ghosh | Yunus Bid For Silent Coup To Humiliate B’desh Army

Manash Ghosh | Yunus Bid For Silent Coup To Humiliate B’desh Army

Mr Yunus’ real objective is to raise an armed Islamic militia on the lines of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards, whose...

4 Nov 2025 10:03 PM IST

DC Edit | Unsafe Roads: Focus On Safety

DC Edit | Unsafe Roads: Focus On Safety

On November 3, a truck carrying a load of gravel collided with a bus coming from the opposite direction near Hyderabad

4 Nov 2025 9:40 PM IST

DC Edit | Lip Service Not Enough, Give Science More Funds

DC Edit | Lip Service Not Enough, Give Science More Funds

The ISC, which predated Indian independence and is considered one of the finest assemblies of scientific minds all over...

4 Nov 2025 9:22 PM IST

DC Edit | Isro Enters Elite Space League

DC Edit | Isro Enters Elite Space League

Weighing 4,410 kg, CMS-03 surpasses the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, and proves the reliability and versatility of the...

3 Nov 2025 10:09 PM IST

DC Edit | As The Women in Blue Make History, Cup of Joy for India

DC Edit | As The Women in Blue Make History, Cup of Joy for India

Beaten thrice in the 8-team preliminary league, Team India slipped into the semi-finals with a win over New Zealand and...

3 Nov 2025 8:53 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Why ‘Smart Cities’ Project Never Took Off In India, And Was Quietly Shelved

Aakar Patel | Why ‘Smart Cities’ Project Never Took Off In India, And...

The “Smart Cities” mission was set up with a concept note that said the aim was to make cities that would offer “decent...

3 Nov 2025 7:45 PM IST

Bharat Bhushan| Stalled J&K Statehood: Engineered Instability

Bharat Bhushan| Stalled J&K Statehood: Engineered Instability

Karl Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte observed that man makes history not “out of the whole cloth” but...

3 Nov 2025 7:26 PM IST

DC Edit | Charles Right In Banishing Andrew

DC Edit | Charles Right In Banishing Andrew

At a time of the monarchy’s popularity further declining after the death of long reigning Queen Elizabeth, the string of...

2 Nov 2025 11:42 PM IST

DC Edit | Lesson Not Learned: Nothing Done To Prevent A Stampede

DC Edit | Lesson Not Learned: Nothing Done To Prevent A Stampede

Officials blamed the rush of devotees at the privately-owned Sri Venkateswara Temple on Kartika Ekadashi festival for...

2 Nov 2025 11:10 PM IST

John J. Kennedy | Why Our Schools Need To Start Sex Education Sooner, Rather Than Later

John J. Kennedy | Why Our Schools Need To Start Sex Education Sooner,...

In 2009, a parliamentary committee led by M. Venkaiah Naidu even declared that sex education “pollutes young minds”

2 Nov 2025 10:25 PM IST