2019-12-22 17:54
Sunita Wadekar Bhargava
We are standing at the edge of the road peering down at the Nohkalikai Falls in Meghalaya. Touted as the tallest plunge falls in India, they cascade down from a… Read More
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2019-12-22 17:06
Anil Padmanabhan
For almost all of this year, agitations have flared across the world with people, bewildered by their circumstances, taking to the streets. In short, the world is in f… Read More
2019-12-22 16:00
Rajrishi Singhal
What a difference six months can make. Consensus seems to be building that the economy needs government intervention to tide over the slowdown. This is a complete U-tu… Read More
2019-12-22 15:25
HindustanTimes
The protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act have taken the highest toll on life in Uttar Pradesh (UP). Over 15 people are reported dead; hundreds are injured; the… Read More
2019-12-22 08:17
HindustanTimes
I landed in Jerusalem with some amount of trepidation about what awaits me. But I was taken aback by my first conversation at the hotel desk where they enquired if all was… Read More
2019-12-22 07:24
Reuters
ASSOCIATED PRESSPakistani police officers stand guard outside Multan jail after a court’s decision for a professor facing blasphemy case, in Multan, Pakis… Read More
2019-12-22 06:42
Mary Kearl
Domepitipat via Getty Images“The impact of losing one’s livelihood, purpose, routine, sense of self — whatever being employed means on an individua… Read More
2019-12-22 06:10
Reuters
Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesHundreds of demonstrators shout slogans and hold placards as they attend a protest against a Citizenship Amendment Act at Jamia… Read More
2019-12-22 05:09
Debarati Chakraborty
blackCAT via Getty Images
You’ve spent months, or even years, investing your precious time and energy in building a relationship. You’ve tried… Read More
2019-12-22 04:33
Akshay Deshmane
HuffPost India top memoirs of the decade
The second decade of the 21st century was at least as eventful as the first, if not more. Not surprisingly then, many… Read More
2019-12-22 03:44
Piyasree Dasgupta
INDRANIL MUKHERJEE via Getty ImagesIn this photo taken on November 10, 2019, youngsters gather around mentor Akhtar Shaikh (back to camera) before a video-rec… Read More
2019-12-22 02:30
Vinita Dawra Nangia
The need to stay relevant drives us all through life — the day you lose all relevance, you cease to exist! Or, do you?
The lifelong struggle to stay relevant k… Read More
2019-12-22 01:08
HindustanTimes
Is India a “nation-state” or a “state-nation”? This may seem like semantics, but the answer will determine India’s democratic future. In thei… Read More
2019-12-22 00:37
Jasprit Bumrah at a training session ahead of a match. (AP)
By Sandip G
A year that began triumphantly—with India claiming a Test series in Australia for the first time—unfo… Read More
2019-12-21 19:56
Shobhaa De
Our fashionista Prime Minister’s deep interest in matters sartorial is known to all. His colour co-ordinated, perfectly tailored bespoke ‘bundis’ create wav… Read More
2019-12-21 19:13
Coomi Kapoor
Just before voting in the Lok Sabha, Sena MPs walked distractedly in and out of the House conferring frantically with Mumbai for instructions.
Uneasy switch
The ideologica… Read More
2019-12-21 18:00
HindustanTimes
The world today stands at the cusp of a new industrial revolution. Driving the revolution are several emerging technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet… Read More
2019-12-21 17:52
Purushottam Jha
Groucho Max once observed, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”. … Read More
2019-12-21 17:31
Mansukh Mandaviya, Union minister of state (independent charge) for shipping, spoke to ET on how the recent Recycling of Ships Act will benefit India. Edited excerpts:
Many MPs have expr… Read More
2019-12-21 16:59
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed by the ruling BJP government in India has sparked off protests across the country. In a nutshell, the CAA creates a legal… Read More
2019-12-21 12:03
Rudroneel Ghosh
The second India-US 2+2 dialogue between foreign and defence principals of the two countries has certainly furthered the bilateral defence partnership. The two sides are… Read More
2019-12-21 11:23
Kate Gilgan
Alexey_M via Getty Images“I wondered if I should tell my husband how deeply this man’s death rocked me. Is that what faithful people do?”
“… Read More
2019-12-21 10:48
Matthew Jacobs
DisneyThe Rise of Skywalker
This review contains mild spoilers, most of which were evident in promotional materials.
The opening crawl of “Star Wars… Read More
2019-12-21 10:46
HindustanTimes
Over the past week, what had so far been confined to expressions of deep anxiety in limited sections of print media and on websites by concerned citizens has spilled on to… Read More
2019-12-21 08:36
FE Bureau
India, to be sure, has made considerable progress in higher education, also in terms of improving social equity in higher ed.
India will need to significantly step up efforts… Read More
2019-12-21 08:34
Press Trust of India
Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesLUCKNOW, INDIA – DECEMBER 20: Police personnel stand guard during anti CAA protest, Old City on December 20, 2019 in… Read More
2019-12-21 07:33
Illustrations: Rohnit Phore
By Bornali Bhandari, Samarth Gupta and Ajaya K Sahu
Business e-Readiness assesses the ability of private businesses to use and produce Information, Communica… Read More
2019-12-21 07:18
Press Trust of India
Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesNEW DELHI, INDIA – DECEMBER 20: Traffic is seen amid dense fog, at Geeta colony on December 20, 2019 in New D… Read More
‘Driving Licence’ Review: This Prithviraj Film Gets Fan-Superstar Dynamic Right, But Lacks Depth
2019-12-21 06:47
Neelima Menon
HuffPost India A still from the trailer.
During a promotional interview of Driving Licence, director Lal Jr had revealed that writer Sachi had ori… Read More
2019-12-21 06:29
The Financial Express
Vladimir Putin
World leaders are plumbing new depths of climate scepticism. Donald Trump will walk America out of the Paris deal if he survives his impeachment tr… Read More
2019-12-21 06:04
Arvind Panagariya and Pravin Krishna
AP: You’re listening to the “Transforming India” podcast, jointly brought to you by the Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Econ… Read More
2019-12-21 05:46
Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Muhammad Khan
From the Home Minister’s (HM) defence of the divisive Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 (“CAB”) in both houses of Parliament… Read More
2019-12-21 05:28
Three out of the four indicators used by the GHI index to rank countries deal with nutrition.
Niraj Kumar & Anjani Kumar
A dip in India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index (G… Read More
2019-12-21 03:36
HindustanTimes
The passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act by Parliament has triggered significant protests and demonstrations across the country. This is unsurprising — and indee… Read More
2019-12-20 19:41
Gopal Sathe
Amit Dave / ReutersAn election staff member pastes a hologram on a voter identification card.
A flaw in the security of the Election Commission of India w… Read More
2019-12-20 17:32
Ajit Varwandkar
One big challenge for human beings today is to live in the present. Almost each one of us has become a victim of the past – our own past.
I have seen people always… Read More
2019-12-20 16:48
FM Nirmala Sitharaman and Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan at the 38th GST Council meeting in New Delhi
By Shshank Saurav
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and Goods & S… Read More
2019-12-20 16:46
Nandita Sengupta
Is the Bengali identity under attack? Netas cry hoarse that we the people ‘misunderstand’ their intentions. We, made of very many peopl… Read More
2019-12-20 16:04
Much is being written about the National Companies Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) order dated 18 December, reinstating Cyrus Mistry as executive chairman of Tata Sons. There are several… Read More
2019-12-20 15:47
India attracted FDI of .2 billion during FY2019
By Akhil Bansal
The year 2019 has been eventful. With two budgets being presented this year, India came out with decisive policies in the… Read More
2019-12-20 14:57
Livemint
It is uncanny how India, the world’s most populous democracy, resorts so frequently to shutting down the internet and suspending mobile communication for millions of cit… Read More
2019-12-20 14:41
Vivian Fernandes
Spreading the production of onions across the country and close to the places of consumption can help avert such situations.
Diversifying the areas of production to no… Read More
2019-12-20 14:18
Jiby J Kattakayam
On Thursday employees at newspaper offices at ITO in Delhi were surprised to find their mobile phone services jammed. A tweet by someone affected at ITO received a sar… Read More
2019-12-20 13:39
India seems to have missed out on attracting large FDI in the apparel sector.
By Rajeev Kher & Harsha Vardhana Singh
The recent bilateral trade deal between the US and China has imp… Read More
2019-12-20 07:04
Rohini Chatterji
The protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has now spread across the country, with thousands having descended on the streets on Thursday in Delhi… Read More
2019-12-20 06:36
Jug Suraiya
Will the tubby gent with the red suit, white beard, and his genial leitmotiv of `Ho, ho, ho!’, who slides down chimneys to leave behind Yuletide gifts, be replaced by… Read More
2019-12-20 06:30
Newsroom
STR via Getty ImagesDuring demonstrations against CAA in Mangalore on December 19, 2019.
A day after two people lost their lives in protests against the Citi… Read More
2019-12-20 06:16
HindustanTimes
The Personal Data Protection Bill introduced in the Parliament on December 11 provides a framework to regulate the processing of personal data in India. It gives certain g… Read More
2019-12-20 04:20
Rohini Chatterji
PUNIT PARANJPE via Getty ImagesA protester shouts slogans during a demonstration against India’s new citizenship law in Mumbai on December 19, 2019. &nda… Read More
2019-12-20 03:47
Rohini Chatterji
SOPA Images via Getty ImagesRepresentative image.
RANCHI— Polling for the fifth and final phase of the Jharkhand assembly elections in 16… Read More
2019-12-20 03:16
Betwa Sharma
ASSOCIATED PRESSIndians gather during a protest rally against the Citizen Amendment Act in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019.
NEW DELHI — N… Read More
2019-12-20 02:42
Parismita Singh
GUWAHATI, Assam — As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Union government adopts tactics of repression long used in the North East, Kashmir and Central India, aga… Read More
2019-12-19 23:35
Tunde Ogowewo, a renowned academic at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, was my teacher of company law at the University of London. To him, lawmaking and its reading… Read More
2019-12-19 23:09
HindustanTimes
On Thursday, those opposed to the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act planned protests across the country. This was in accordance with the constitutionally guarant… Read More
2019-12-19 19:06
Sandeep Shastri
Ever since the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, one is witnessing protests across India. And post the events at Jamia Millia, the agitation has onl… Read More
2019-12-19 18:13
Minority protection has been a contentious issue and hotly debated subject in political and corporate circles. One such burning corporate legal battle witnessed a very interesting twist… Read More
2019-12-19 17:17
V Raghunathan
The Prime Minister wants the nation to trust the government. The people are increasingly beginning to see less and less reason to do that. DeMo was a disaster as much in i… Read More
2019-12-19 17:16
Sudipto Mundle
It was not so long ago that Christine Lagarde, the then head of the International Monetary Fund, had said that the Indian economy was in a sweet spot. We exulted in bein… Read More
2019-12-19 17:02
Ashali Varma
Since the BJP came to power, I have noticed the opposition parties— filled with a sense of entitlement and dynastic politics— tries not only to take our country… Read More
2019-12-19 16:21
Fast internet connections are a prerequisite for a fast-growing economy, and India is no exception. As we look back at 2019, there are several notable takeaways from the Indian telecom… Read More
2019-12-19 16:03
HindustanTimes
President Donald Trump has become the third United States (US) president to be impeached, but will not become the first to be expelled from office. The lower house of the… Read More
2019-12-19 13:39
Livemint
President Donald Trump was impeached by the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday night, becoming the only the third president to suffer this ignominy in US hist… Read More
2019-12-19 12:54
Nehmat Kaur
HuffPost IndiaInstagram has become homeground for many of the young Indians protesting across India right now. But it’s not about the platform, it’s wha… Read More
2019-12-19 12:27
Renuka Bisht
A video gone viral today shows leading Indian historian and public intellectual Ramachandra Guha surrounded by policemen and even manhandled by them near the Town Hall in B… Read More
2019-12-19 07:21
Akshita Jain
NurPhoto via Getty ImagesRepresentative image.
While Section 144 has been imposed near Red Fort in Delhi as protesters march against the Citizenshi… Read More
2019-12-19 06:47
Rohini Chatterji
Danish Siddiqui / ReutersA demonstrator shouts slogans during a protest against a new citizenship law, outside the Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi… Read More
2019-12-19 06:36
The Financial Express
Given consumers have a right to know what they are consuming, the government must provide clarity on the notification of the regulations.
The findings of a lab-an… Read More
2019-12-19 06:24
According to Browne, climate change is one of the most urgent issues engineering can help solve
John Browne, formally known as Lord Browne of Madingley, served as the CEO of oil… Read More
2019-12-19 06:16
Akshita Jain
ASSOCIATED PRESSIndian students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University shout slogans as they march during a protest, in New Delhi, on December 18, 2019.&nb… Read More
2019-12-19 05:40
Akshita Jain
ASSOCIATED PRESSRepresentative image.
In view of the planned protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act on Thursday, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation tw… Read More
2019-12-19 05:35
The Financial Express
In these days of intense political acrimony, the good news is the work on this was started by the UPA and used effectively by the NDA.
Dominated as the discourse… Read More
2019-12-19 05:04
Saif Hasnat
Courtesy Dhaka TribuneStudents from Dhaka University protest in solidarity with Jamia Millia Islamia University.
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Students of Dhaka Univer… Read More
2019-12-19 04:29
Rohini Chatterji
Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesNEW DELHI, INDIA – DECEMBER 18: Students and local residents hold placards and raise slogans as they take part in a prote… Read More
2019-12-19 04:09
Badri Narayan
The parliamentary election in 2014 appeared to be a turning point in the history of Indian politics. It made Narendra Modi the locus of Indian politics. As a result of th… Read More
2019-12-18 18:49
Sudeep Chakravarti
This week, we look at just how complicated matters are in Assam with the exercise of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the riotously controversial CAA, or… Read More
2019-12-18 18:39
HindustanTimes
The death sentence given to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a treason case is unprecedented in Pakistan, where the army has ruled for almost half of the country… Read More
2019-12-18 17:56
Shuchi Bansal
When Shailesh Prakash, chief information officer and executive vice-president of digital product development at The Washington Post, spoke to Mint on the sidelines of a n… Read More
2019-12-18 17:04
Is art an expression of beauty or a political weapon? Henri Matisse called art soothing and calming, whereas Picasso through Guernica exhibited his dismay at the Nazi bombing of the Bas… Read More
2019-12-18 16:11
Livemint
The proverbial Lady Luck just got costlier in India. The Goods and Services Tax Council on Wednesday raised the indirect tax rate on lotteries to a uniform 28%. This is a welc… Read More
2019-12-18 15:12
Sunil Sharan
It is about six months after Narendra Modi stomped back to power, but already his promise of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas (Bring everyone together, Development f… Read More
2019-12-18 13:48
The massive penalty imposed by the SC is bound to dent the balance sheets of telecom operators, and likely impact the implementation of 5G in India.
By B K Syngal
Most of the… Read More
2019-12-18 13:14
Betwa Sharma
Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesProtesters with banners and placards continue their protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens… Read More
2019-12-18 12:47
Chandra Bhushan
In a rapidly warming world, the interest of countries and the interest of the planet are two sides of the same coin
It was a farce. Yes, I am talking about the just con… Read More
2019-12-18 12:40
Sanjana Karanth
Hundreds of protests played out throughout the US on Tuesday evening to demand that President Donald Trump be removed from office, an appropriately dramatic setup for We… Read More
2019-12-15 05:58
Meraj Shah
Patrick Reed plays from the rough during the President’s Cup golf tournament at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne (AP)
I’m no fan of Patrick Reed and I&rsqu… Read More
2019-12-15 04:24
HindustanTimes
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, has faced its most fierce backlash in the Northeast. This is not a surprise, for it is the Northeast which has witnessed the inters… Read More
2019-12-15 01:00
Vinita Dawra Nangia
Our brains can block out all background chatter and focus on the immediate, but there are some things that penetrate through nevertheless!
The mind has this unique q… Read More
2019-12-15 00:30
Twinkle Khanna
10.10 am There is pandemonium in my office as our website crashes because of an unprecedented number of users, all rushing to devour a story titled ‘Dummies’… Read More
2019-12-15 00:00
Gautam Bhatia
In the small village in Kumaon where we live in summer, our house is but one of a few in the area with electricity, while the houses nearby have the dim incandescence of k… Read More
2019-12-14 23:30
SA Aiyar
The killing of four rape suspects in an “encounter” by the Hyderabad police evoked rapturous joy in many TV channels and the general public. MP Jaya Bachchan called… Read More
2019-12-14 22:00
Swapan Dasgupta
On the face of it, there is nothing in common between the two distinct oppositions to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that was passed by both Houses of Parliament last… Read More
2019-12-14 21:18
HindustanTimes
Seven decades after the Partition of India on religious lines, citizenship has again become a matter of debate in the public sphere. It has been argued that the Citizensh… Read More
2019-12-14 20:40
Lt Gen DS Hooda
Each year the US intelligence community under the office of director of National Intelligence prepares a ‘Worldwide Threat Assessment’ to be presented to Con… Read More
2019-12-14 20:30
Pooja Bedi
The joy of a relationship column is that it can be so varied. I’ve written about various aspects ranging from the deep and meaningful to how a fart is the most defining… Read More
2019-12-14 16:53
Deepak Bajaj
Ten years back when I was in high school, the only thing I knew about the cloud was it can lower the level of mercury and raise the levels of groundwater. Also, it used to… Read More
2019-12-14 14:03
HindustanTimes
Japan has emerged as India’s primary geo-economic partner. Whether it is building industrial corridors, public transport systems, partnering to make strategic infras… Read More
2019-12-14 13:18
Newsroom
STR via Getty ImagesProtesters block a road after setting buses on fire during a demonstration against the Citizenship Act in Howrah, on the outskirts of Kolkata on De… Read More
2019-12-14 11:56
Press Trust of India
File Photo/Getty ImagesNational Conference’s Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah at Parliament House, on June 25, 2019 in New Delhi… Read More
2019-12-14 10:20
Harsimran Gill
Film stillHarry Potter
“Can 35 million book buyers be wrong?” the notorious literary critic Harold Bloom asked in July 2000 in an article in the Wal… Read More
2019-12-14 09:59
Sunil Kumar
Envisioning the year 2050: With the rapid rate at which technology is progressing, we’ve little idea of what the world will be like in 2050 or 2150; what will be the i… Read More
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